Fahrenheit 451 Literary Analysis

The average child today watches, or is exposed to, television for almost 5 hours a day or 32 hours of television a week. The divorce rate has also increased to almost fifty percent in America. One would think that these statistics are unpredictable and mind-boggling, but Ray Bradbury illustrated that he could in fact predict this horrible way of life. In the 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury correctly predicts government misinformation, family disintegration, television abuse, and drug abuse for future years. Unfortunately, these predictions turned out to be very realistic.
Throughout the novel Bradbury places instances of government misinformation in various instances. One of these came while Guy Montag, the protagonist in the novel, was being chased by the government and their tracking creation a mechanical hound. The chase was nationally televised but the faces of the people caught by the hound were not shown to the viewers because the …show more content…
Since 1960 the divorce rate in America has gone up from 13% in 1960 to 44% in 2009. This drastic increase is the direct result of couples getting married earlier than in the past. Couples today are so anxious to get married when they are in their low to mid twenties that they don’t get to truly get to know the person they are actually marrying. This is the case for Guy and Mildred Montag. The scary thing about their relationship is that they got married so early they forgot how they actually met because the two isolate themselves from one another. Guy is always off working and Mildred spends all of her time either watching television or listening to the radio. When the two actually do talk to one another, Mildred is usually asking for another t.v. or another gadget to play with. Throughout the novel Bradbury gives hints about what he thinks the future of marriages and long term relationships will be, and for the most part he was