Lack Of Knowledge In Fahrenheit 451

Knowledge

Knowledge helps people make conclusions, lets them be skillful, smart, and keeps them aware. People gather knowledge through experience, whether it's from school, mistakes, witnessing a situation, or trying new activities out. Including in “Fahrenheit 451”, the author, Ray Bradbury does an amazing job in explaining and describing to his audience of how society results in a setting without reasonable amounts of knowledge. People in the society of “Fahrenheit 451” begin to lose common sense after the books are prohibited to keep. In the novel 451 Ray Bradbury warns the audience that without knowledge people are manipulated easily. In reality knowledge is the key to surviving.

One of the ways Bradbury establishes the idea that without knowledge people are manipulated easily

In this conflict, society in “Fahrenheit 451” is now too dependent on technology. They have a hound that kills those that disobey and that own books. People can't control what they don't want anymore. Now they need technology to take control over situations. The lack of knowledge doesn't let people have self control. For instance the toasters makes the toast, applies butter to them, and hands it to whose ever it belongs too. If everything is done for humanity no one will survive if technology is down. Another example, the TVs in the house have a purpose and that purpose is to keep the audience distracted from thinking. Majority of the people in Fahrenheit 451 have already lost knowledge because of the TVs, falling as victims, but they believe that it's okay to not think. Because the society’s