Negative Effects Of Technology On Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, makes at first a society that has been affected by technology. We see how people are affected by Parlor walls that had alter the communication of citizens within each other. Alike, Bradbury’s premonition of technology in his 1953 novel seems to have some truth to it in the sense that society makes people less interest into communicating with other people, making them less interest into overviewing things in their society. In our society we see how phones, computers, tablets, and computers had affected us so tremendously that we are in a point that we don’t communicate with ourselves physically and verbally. This has led to serious problems that evoke from a premonition. In F451, we see how Mildred watches the Parlor

walls almost all the time the author talks about her, she had gotten a special connection to the people that are in the television that she even considers them her “family”. In our society, we see how people are so intrigued with technology that they have their own lives inside a computer.

People nowadays talk to their relatives online whether its long distance its good thing, but people opt to talk to their realities on a screen rather than in person. Bradbury try to warn us that a society where everybody watches T.V all day, gets into a sense of being unable to question things that are wrong since they are never into that sense. Recently, I read RooGirl’s article titled “25 Negative Effects of Technology” in which she discussed the negative effects of technology towards our society. What the author is demonstrating in this article is that various factors that technology takes makes us more impaired that we suppose to be. For example, she discusses the claim that technology makes people less social. She does this by exemplifying that people nowadays uses social media outlets almost everyday causing people to meet in person less frequency. This causes a lack of social skill such as read body language and social cue in other people. This connects to F451 because it shows that inside that society people don’t have usually talk to each other in any shape or form, except for

work. This came to be thanks to the government that made all citizens antisocial. People have huge tv in parlor walls, these parlor walls distract people entirely. This makes total control of people, as they don’t have a mind to themselves. This may see like our society is turning in the society that is depicted in F451, but if we instead of watching tv, being in our phones or computers, we should rather read a book or have an open-minded chat with someone.