Have you ever thought of how much time you spend in front of a screen and how much we use technology in our society today? The great obsession with technology that many characters in the novel experience, compares to the current obsessions that transpires in our world today. A big danger of technology that is portrayed in the book is that broadcasters emote their news in a way that makes people believe whatever they say, and studies have proven that this is exhibited in our society as well. Technology has caused a distraction from the social lives of many people in our world today, as well as in the novel. The negative impacts that technology brings to our society are very similar to the points Ray Bradbury brings up throughout the novel.
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Mildred finds this adequate, and continues the obsession all through the book. When she leaves her home after ratting Montag out for having possession of books, he remembered her as ‘“a strange woman who would forget him tomorrow, who had gone and quite forgotten him already, listening to her Seashell Radio pour in on her and in on her as she rode across town, alone” (Bradbury 110). Since she is drained in technology, she is at a loss of memory for important things that have gone on in her life. Because Mildred did not spend lots of time with Montag, and instead with technology, she therefore was at a loss of memory. Her obsession with technology caused her to be oblivious to what is truly important. There are many other occurrences where the obsession of technology has a significance on one's acts in the book. The things that many of the characters watched or heard on their parlor walls or radio taught them to have no creativity or thoughts of their own. Guy, one who was not affected by this thought of the parlor walls as a place where the “great idiot monsters lay asleep with their white
A negative impact …show more content…
Mildred finds this adequate, and continues the obsession all through the book. When she leaves her home after ratting Montag out for having possession of books, he remembered her as ‘“a strange woman who would forget him tomorrow, who had gone and quite forgotten him already, listening to her Seashell Radio pour in on her and in on her as she rode across town, alone” (Bradbury 110). Since she is drained in technology, she is at a loss of memory for important things that have gone on in her life. Because Mildred did not spend lots of time with Montag, and instead with technology, she therefore was at a loss of memory. Her obsession with technology caused her to be oblivious to what is truly important. There are many other occurrences where the obsession of technology has a significance on one's acts in the book. The things that many of the characters watched or heard on their parlor walls or radio taught them to have no creativity or thoughts of their own. Guy, one who was not affected by this thought of the parlor walls as a place where the “great idiot monsters lay asleep with their white