What Bradbury Got Right
Fahrenheit 451 is an extremely important novel, especially in today’s world. The novel centers around Montag, a fireman who sets fires ablaze instead of putting them out. “What is he burning?” One might ask. The answer is literature. Books in this world are completely banned and must be burned if discovered. Technology has completely taken over, and people are constantly immersed in it. He loves his job until he meets his neighbor, a teen girl named Clarisse. She helps him to discover a love he didn’t think he would ever have, this love is for books and nature. As he converses with Clarisse, he becomes more and more dissatisfied with his life. He begins to rebel against the firefighters, and with the help of Faber, an …show more content…
Today we have Bluetooth headsets, headphones, and earbuds. Bradbury predicted this in the novel: “And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind.” The Seashells and Thimble Radios seem to represent today’s earpiece devices. We always are connected in some way to technology, and this demonstrates the physical aspect of it. The thing I find so interesting about this earpiece technology is we wear it so we can block out the rest of the world. Mildred, Montag’s wife, used her Seashells and radio devices to escape from the world that was making her miserable. The irony in this is that the reason she was miserable was due to being too immersed in the technology. This is true of people today as well. There have been many times in which I have used my music and earbuds to block out things that made me miserable. Often I have found the same technology that helps to block things out is the thing making me miserable. One more really interesting thing about these Seashell devices is that they are referred to as Seashells. Bradbury’s world is one in which nature is depleted and forbidden, yet this technology is named after something that occurs in nature. The device opposes nature, yet it is named for
Fahrenheit 451 is an extremely important novel, especially in today’s world. The novel centers around Montag, a fireman who sets fires ablaze instead of putting them out. “What is he burning?” One might ask. The answer is literature. Books in this world are completely banned and must be burned if discovered. Technology has completely taken over, and people are constantly immersed in it. He loves his job until he meets his neighbor, a teen girl named Clarisse. She helps him to discover a love he didn’t think he would ever have, this love is for books and nature. As he converses with Clarisse, he becomes more and more dissatisfied with his life. He begins to rebel against the firefighters, and with the help of Faber, an …show more content…
Today we have Bluetooth headsets, headphones, and earbuds. Bradbury predicted this in the novel: “And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind.” The Seashells and Thimble Radios seem to represent today’s earpiece devices. We always are connected in some way to technology, and this demonstrates the physical aspect of it. The thing I find so interesting about this earpiece technology is we wear it so we can block out the rest of the world. Mildred, Montag’s wife, used her Seashells and radio devices to escape from the world that was making her miserable. The irony in this is that the reason she was miserable was due to being too immersed in the technology. This is true of people today as well. There have been many times in which I have used my music and earbuds to block out things that made me miserable. Often I have found the same technology that helps to block things out is the thing making me miserable. One more really interesting thing about these Seashell devices is that they are referred to as Seashells. Bradbury’s world is one in which nature is depleted and forbidden, yet this technology is named after something that occurs in nature. The device opposes nature, yet it is named for