In society, technology influences everyone. From the abundance of screens to the technologization of everything from dogs to cars and firemen. Technology today has greatly shifted the way people think and act. The information presented to them through technology influences their perceptions of the real-world. Technology has the special ability to control what information people receive. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the author Ray Bradbury analyzes the effect of this technology on the way people think and act. He proves in this novel that technology can cause us to be blinded from the truth about the world. This novel describes a future world in which technology and censorship are present so much that they oppress the people’s ability to think
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Therefore, in Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury uses the characters of Montag, Mildred, Faber and Beatty to convey that the overflow of technology keeps people from thinking and questioning the norms of society. Technology, especially violence in entertainment, is destroying our perceptions of reality and shaping the way people act and think. Technology in this society has caused people to become blind from the truth. Television is present in almost everyone’s lives, and the people accept it as the truth. One night, Mildred and her friends are watching television. Montag walks in and observes the violence in this “entertainment”. ““Montag saw a number of bodies fly in the air. ‘Millie did you see that!’ ‘I saw it, I saw it!’” (94). The women become very excite from this violence, and are not phased at all by the death of people. Television has caused violence to become normal and unalarming in this society. The people do not think of violence as a big problem, and death is not an issue. In reality, violence is very real and is not a happy subject. Deaths are alarming and saddening, when these women think of death as a regular occurrence. This is a strong example of technology shaping the way the …show more content…
Bradbury uses Mildred and her friend’s to show that television has caused society to become oblivious to the cold reality about violence. Next, the author uses Montag’s interactions with Faber to show that technology blinds people from the ability to think for themselves about what is true and untrue. Lastly, Montag’s interactions with faber show that people themselves have sped up the information they receive to the point where they don’t see the whole story and can’t think for themselves. While this novel was about a futuristic society, Bradbury was in fact making a claim based on the society he lived in at the time. His predictions have come true in some ways today. People are obsessed with technology today, and our lives have sped up greatly. While we are not quite at the point where we are burning books or not thinking for ourselves, we may be headed on a similar path as the society in this novel. This novel should serve as an alarm to the dangers of too much technology and too much censorship. Our society today must realize the truth behind Bradbury’s claim, and use this knowledge to avoid following a similar fate as this society. Fahrenheit 451 serves as a warning, and we must recognize it as legitimate to avoid
Therefore, in Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury uses the characters of Montag, Mildred, Faber and Beatty to convey that the overflow of technology keeps people from thinking and questioning the norms of society. Technology, especially violence in entertainment, is destroying our perceptions of reality and shaping the way people act and think. Technology in this society has caused people to become blind from the truth. Television is present in almost everyone’s lives, and the people accept it as the truth. One night, Mildred and her friends are watching television. Montag walks in and observes the violence in this “entertainment”. ““Montag saw a number of bodies fly in the air. ‘Millie did you see that!’ ‘I saw it, I saw it!’” (94). The women become very excite from this violence, and are not phased at all by the death of people. Television has caused violence to become normal and unalarming in this society. The people do not think of violence as a big problem, and death is not an issue. In reality, violence is very real and is not a happy subject. Deaths are alarming and saddening, when these women think of death as a regular occurrence. This is a strong example of technology shaping the way the …show more content…
Bradbury uses Mildred and her friend’s to show that television has caused society to become oblivious to the cold reality about violence. Next, the author uses Montag’s interactions with Faber to show that technology blinds people from the ability to think for themselves about what is true and untrue. Lastly, Montag’s interactions with faber show that people themselves have sped up the information they receive to the point where they don’t see the whole story and can’t think for themselves. While this novel was about a futuristic society, Bradbury was in fact making a claim based on the society he lived in at the time. His predictions have come true in some ways today. People are obsessed with technology today, and our lives have sped up greatly. While we are not quite at the point where we are burning books or not thinking for ourselves, we may be headed on a similar path as the society in this novel. This novel should serve as an alarm to the dangers of too much technology and too much censorship. Our society today must realize the truth behind Bradbury’s claim, and use this knowledge to avoid following a similar fate as this society. Fahrenheit 451 serves as a warning, and we must recognize it as legitimate to avoid