Fahrenheit 451 Technology Essay

Television and other forms of media are important in this day in age to get information out to the masses even if some of it is bias. In the book Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury uses ideas and builds a setting to support the idea that television is important to society even with its flaws. Montag, the main character, lives in a dystopian world where firemen are no longer fighting fires, they are creating them. Montag believes that he understands his world better than anyone but when he meets Clarisse McClellan, he finds out he couldn’t be more wrong. Tv in Montag’s world may be used as a force of evil, but our society is not corrupt and Tvs are used for a force of good. Accordingly, Montag after meeting Clarisse realizes that the Tvs aren’t as wonderful as he used to believe them to be but without Tvs information would be much harder to get out to people. This is shown in Montag's society when towards the end of the book the government is able to notify the entire city within seconds which would be impossible without Tvs. This may have served as a problem in …show more content…
The difference is the parlors serve to make everyone want the same thing, and to keep everyone from questioning the government, while in our society as technology is advanced it can be used as a force of good like curing diseases and finding renewable energy sources. Even if cell phones become more addicting society is evolving in a positive way as opposed to Montag’s world where technology evolving seem completely negative. This is shown in the story because as houses become fireproof firefighters turn into firestarters. As society evolves in our world we benefit positively while in Montag’s corrupt society the government wants to keep the citizens as disengaged as