Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian society lost in time in which these people lead empty lives. Immediately in the beginning, we see how technology-dependant these people have become. Bradbury may have used this theme, to show how a void in everyone's lives made them become heavily reliant on technology to fill the feeling of emptiness.
We first see how technology is drastically used when we are introduced to Mildred in the first part. The parlour is described to be made up of three TV walls and all types of advanced machinery. Mildred wants to add a fourth a A recurring issue in the book is memory loss, and pieces of time not fitting together. Almost everyone doesn’t remember how things became the way they are. Mildred doesn’t …show more content…
Montag is having trouble, just like everyone, remembering how it became that way. Throughout the book, that it is what Montag is after, not saving books. He suspects the books might fill that emptiness because he feels he will learn a lot from reading and discovering new things. Faber subtly mentions it as well on page 82; “No no, it’s not the books you’re looking for.” He continues to mention how books influenced people's lives making them outlawed. It distracted them from their “perfect lives.” These people no longer want to better themselves, learn, and advance emotionally and intellectually. Therefore their heavy use of technology. They simply want to live their days without knowing what the meaning of life is. When Faber says,"flowers grow on flowers,"(83) it means that the "flowers" already know they can grow in whatever spot they are in so instead of branching out and "growing on good rain" they simply stay in that spot. This relates to Montag's situation, because he is trying to grow from doing the same thing and just conforming to society instead of learning and growing from the knowledge he gained and the emptiness is the lack of
We first see how technology is drastically used when we are introduced to Mildred in the first part. The parlour is described to be made up of three TV walls and all types of advanced machinery. Mildred wants to add a fourth a A recurring issue in the book is memory loss, and pieces of time not fitting together. Almost everyone doesn’t remember how things became the way they are. Mildred doesn’t …show more content…
Montag is having trouble, just like everyone, remembering how it became that way. Throughout the book, that it is what Montag is after, not saving books. He suspects the books might fill that emptiness because he feels he will learn a lot from reading and discovering new things. Faber subtly mentions it as well on page 82; “No no, it’s not the books you’re looking for.” He continues to mention how books influenced people's lives making them outlawed. It distracted them from their “perfect lives.” These people no longer want to better themselves, learn, and advance emotionally and intellectually. Therefore their heavy use of technology. They simply want to live their days without knowing what the meaning of life is. When Faber says,"flowers grow on flowers,"(83) it means that the "flowers" already know they can grow in whatever spot they are in so instead of branching out and "growing on good rain" they simply stay in that spot. This relates to Montag's situation, because he is trying to grow from doing the same thing and just conforming to society instead of learning and growing from the knowledge he gained and the emptiness is the lack of