Fahrenheit 451 Theme Essay The book that has been banned in numerous places, A book in which every sentence can be analyzed and get millions of different meanings, this book which has writing to sound like some weird fever dream. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 there are many themes and ideas brought up throughout the book. While there may be ideas of government control, depression, isolation and many others, I believe that the main theme and message that is brought up many times throughout the book is, technology has the power to change how people think and act. There are numerous times when this is apparent, I have selected 4 quotes which show off this theme. The first time this theme is shown quite early on in the book. This is after Montag’s wife, Mildred, commits suicide and it brought back to life in the night and she is talking to Montag about adding a 4th screen to her parlor room, “‘It’s only 2 thousand dollars’, she replied. ‘And I should think you’d consider me sometimes.’” (pg.20). This is the very first time the idea of technology changing people is apparent. We can see this by how Mildred is saying it like she expects Montag to have already gone
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This final part gives the idea that technology is distracting us from everything, even from things that could lead to our death. Also that the entertainment industry in the technology side of things wants us to continue being distracted from everything else and only pay attention to
This final part gives the idea that technology is distracting us from everything, even from things that could lead to our death. Also that the entertainment industry in the technology side of things wants us to continue being distracted from everything else and only pay attention to