Society In Fahrenheit 451

(MIP-1) Society becomes less social when there are distractions everywhere.

(SIP-A) People become more attached to technology than to people.

(STEWE-1) People that are attached to technology create fake families and people to seem like they’re socially interacting, when in reality, they’re not. “That’s my family,” (46). Mildred says that when Montag asks her to turn the parlor sound down for him when he’s sick.

(STEWE-2) People become more focused on fake families than their real ones. Mildred creates fake families with technology instead of focusing on her real one, “My ‘family’ is people. They tell me things; I laugh, they laugh! And the colors!” (69). Individuals create fake families and ignore their real ones.

(SIP-B) Society becomes

(SIP-A) The society in Fahrenheit 451 doesn’t have traits that most people do.

(STEWE-1) People in their society become accustomed to violence and lose their empathy. Mildred and her friends are an example of that, “A minute later, three White Cartoon Clowns chopped off each other’s limbs to the accompaniment of immense incoming tides of laughter,” (90).

(STEWE-2) People in Fahrenheit 451 lose aspects of humans that we would consider normal. People in their society are affected by technology, “She was an expert at lip reading from ten years of apprenticeship as Seashell ear thimbles,” (16).

(SIP-B) Society becomes “fake” because they abuse technology.

(STEWE-1) Individuals create a fake world around them that they don’t even pay attention to, they only pay attention to technology. Montag shows this when it says, “‘I am, very much in love!’ He tried to conjure up a face to fit the words, but there was no face. ‘I am!’” (20). Here it shows that Montag lives in a fake world that he doesn’t care for that

(SIP-A) Clarisse is one of the people in Fahrenheit 451 that has kept their humanity.

(STEWE-1) Clarisse favors nature over technology. She shows this when she says, “I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watching the sun rise,” (5). She shows this again when she says, “The rain feels good. I love to walk in it,” (21). This shows that she is more attuned to nature and less to technology.

(STEWE-2) Clarisse is social, a trait that very little people have in their society. This is shown when she says, “Social to me means talking to you about things like this,” (27). She prefers being social to being around technology constantly.

(STEWE-3) Clarisse shows us that she is not like most people. She doesn’t like doing the same things that other people do like. This is shown to us when she says, “I’m afraid of children my own age. They kill each other,” (27). This shows how she retains those traits that make us human, such as fear.

(SIP-B) Granger is another example of someone that has retained those human