Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

Physical, emotional and mental abuse is affected by the entire body. Physical is the outside, mental is the inside, and emotional is even deeper on the inside of the body. The people in this new world deal with this abuse every day. It has become a severe tragedy of what the future might become.

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, describes a whole new world. He demonstrates what the future will be like if new generations do not continue to further their education. This book “teaches us about our recent past, our present, and our own imagined future” with physical abuse (Smolla 896). The new Utopian world started out with major technological advances; “first with photography, then motion pictures, radio, and television” (Smolla 898). “Large flat-screen televisions” were created for an entire room of entertainment, but destroyed relationships (Smolla 897). Guy Montag realizes he is losing his wife, Mildred, to these massive TVs; to which they are in a lot of debt for buying. “His marriage to Mildred is less than ideal,” because she is too busy watching new world shows (Smolla 897). According to Rodney Smolla, her shows may be related to drama TV series, Sex and the City as Millie and her friends gather to chat about their lives and different happenings (897). Montag is shocked by the life they are living now. They hardly talk at all, or even touch. He does not remember what he loves about her or how they even met.

Bradbury continues to describe this world, estimated in “the late twentieth or early twenty-first century” with 451 degrees as the number at which books will burn; or “[t]he temperature where freedom burns” for some people (as qdt. in Smolla 895) (Smolla 896). “Bombers are always in the air, and the firemen are always on al...

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... would get a chance at a good education. Falling in love may be taken away as well. As represented in Fahrenheit 451, Montag loses his wife to a television. Technology impacted their relationship because society changed very drastically. They also built up a lot of debt which was caused by the televisors; and eventually tore them apart. If this were to carry on throughout other relationships in this American city, people would start to give up on love and not have anything to live for. Life itself can change in an instant and one may not realize it. One must realize physical, emotional and mental abuse may happen, but one cannot let it happen.

Works Cited

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1950.

Smolla, Rodney A. "The Life of the Mind and a Life of Meaning: Reflections on Fahrenheit 451." Michigan Law Review (1953): 895-900.