Imagine a life without free thought and emotions, run by the technology we believe we need. Bradbury uses Fahrenheit 451 to convey how happiness is human interaction along with how books lead to the ability to think for thyself.
People in Fahrenheit 451 use technology to overpower the senses of reality. “She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away,” (Bradbury 16). This sadly common scene in Fahrenheit 451 is a woman blind to the world around her due to machines in her ears telling her how to think and what to do. This society has built life to be a burden people have to wait through until the release of death. Reality is no longer real, television is now the only life people think they have.
Life in this future dulls true pleasures by overpowering them. “The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to [the firemen], and struck the match against the railing,” (Bradbury 37). This is meant to prove that that people would rather die than live in a world where humans are mindless drones with no other motives then the high gotten from technology and drugs. The woman in this quote would rather burn in a fire than support an experience machine like society. A life like this makes people no longer care about other beings or the true pleasures of life. …show more content…
“Montag squinted from one face to another as they walked … ‘Don’t judge a book by it’s cover,’ someone said … they all laughed quietly, moving downstream,” (Bradbury 148). The nearly extinct picture in this quote is of people with no technology, talking, laughing, and enjoying each other’s company without false pleasures. Most people in this dystopian society disguised as a perfect world don’t know what the enjoyment of personal company is. The joy of interactions between people is a great thing that is lost in this
People in Fahrenheit 451 use technology to overpower the senses of reality. “She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away,” (Bradbury 16). This sadly common scene in Fahrenheit 451 is a woman blind to the world around her due to machines in her ears telling her how to think and what to do. This society has built life to be a burden people have to wait through until the release of death. Reality is no longer real, television is now the only life people think they have.
Life in this future dulls true pleasures by overpowering them. “The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to [the firemen], and struck the match against the railing,” (Bradbury 37). This is meant to prove that that people would rather die than live in a world where humans are mindless drones with no other motives then the high gotten from technology and drugs. The woman in this quote would rather burn in a fire than support an experience machine like society. A life like this makes people no longer care about other beings or the true pleasures of life. …show more content…
“Montag squinted from one face to another as they walked … ‘Don’t judge a book by it’s cover,’ someone said … they all laughed quietly, moving downstream,” (Bradbury 148). The nearly extinct picture in this quote is of people with no technology, talking, laughing, and enjoying each other’s company without false pleasures. Most people in this dystopian society disguised as a perfect world don’t know what the enjoyment of personal company is. The joy of interactions between people is a great thing that is lost in this