Fahrenheit 451 Technology Quotes

The strongest theme presented in Ray Bradbury’s book, “Fahrenheit 451”, is that technology, if abused, can have an immense hold on one's life. This concept of control on someone's life is clearly illustrated throughout “Fahrenheit 451”. In one such instance on page ten, Mildred is said to have “in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind.” Such phrases as “tamped tight” and “unsleeping mind” indicate the strong hold technology has on Mildred. Her “unsleeping mind” could show a constant need for something, in this case that something would be technology. It's almost as if she is addicted to the use of “Seashells”, and that her mind cannot rest while …show more content…
Mildred watched the toast delivered to her plate. She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away.” Reading both that her ears were “plugged” and that she merely “watched the toast delivered to her plate”, it's clear there's a connection between the technology and her inability to remove herself from the use of it. In addition, certain characters throughout the story notice this grasp that technology is having on people's lives such as on page forty-one when Montag says, “How do you get so empty?” This concern of Montag expresses his realization that something indeed is consuming Mildred's life. Moreover, Clarisse seems to admit on page sixty that the government wanted to encourage technology's use, most likely for control when she said, “But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social