Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 and Walt Disney Studio’s animation Wall-E are examples of dystopian societies. These worlds rely on technology to do simple tasks and cause them to have very little human interaction. In both stories the government has too much authority, which worsens the life of the citizens. Fahrenheit 451 and Wall-E both take place in the future. In the novel there are firemen who, instead of putting out fires, set them to burn books. Bradbury tells a story of a fireman, Montag, who steals the books he is suppose to be burning and how they change him. Wall-E is a tale of a robot, Wall-E, whose job is to clean the earth because it is covered in trash. All the humans are living in a giant spaceship, Axiom, just orbiting
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In Fahrenheit 451 there are many technological advancements that improve daily life, but also make people lazy. In the beginning of the book, one of the characters, Mildred, is making toast when the “toaster spidered out a piece of buttered bread.”(Bradbury, 16). This is an invention that allows one to cut an extra two minutes off their time making toast by buttering the bread for them. While this is a neat creation, it shows how lazy humans are and how incapable they are at doing even the simplest tasks, like buttering bread. In the story another character, Clarisse, a young, talkative, thinker, makes a comment that shows society 's decline perfectly. She mentions while talking to the main character Montag “I’m antisocial they say. I don 't mix.” (Bradbury, 26). This is ironic because people usually think someone who is antisocial as wanting to be in solitude, but in this book she is being called antisocial for wanting to talk to other people. In Wall-E there are many robots all around that help people with different tasks. One example is on the ship when someone is knocked out of their hover chair, there are instantly robots there to help that person back in. (Wall-E). This is crazy because a human should be able to get up and into a seat by themselves, but the people in the movie are incapable of that because they sit around all day. On the ship no one ever interacts with each other. In the film there is a moment when two people are moving along on their hover chairs and they are talking to each other on a hologram. (Wall-E) They are sitting right next to each other, yet they are talking over video chatting. In an article printed in the New York Times, the is a claim that one can become addicted to the internet. In fact the statistic reads “10 percent of the students posted scores high enough to put
In Fahrenheit 451 there are many technological advancements that improve daily life, but also make people lazy. In the beginning of the book, one of the characters, Mildred, is making toast when the “toaster spidered out a piece of buttered bread.”(Bradbury, 16). This is an invention that allows one to cut an extra two minutes off their time making toast by buttering the bread for them. While this is a neat creation, it shows how lazy humans are and how incapable they are at doing even the simplest tasks, like buttering bread. In the story another character, Clarisse, a young, talkative, thinker, makes a comment that shows society 's decline perfectly. She mentions while talking to the main character Montag “I’m antisocial they say. I don 't mix.” (Bradbury, 26). This is ironic because people usually think someone who is antisocial as wanting to be in solitude, but in this book she is being called antisocial for wanting to talk to other people. In Wall-E there are many robots all around that help people with different tasks. One example is on the ship when someone is knocked out of their hover chair, there are instantly robots there to help that person back in. (Wall-E). This is crazy because a human should be able to get up and into a seat by themselves, but the people in the movie are incapable of that because they sit around all day. On the ship no one ever interacts with each other. In the film there is a moment when two people are moving along on their hover chairs and they are talking to each other on a hologram. (Wall-E) They are sitting right next to each other, yet they are talking over video chatting. In an article printed in the New York Times, the is a claim that one can become addicted to the internet. In fact the statistic reads “10 percent of the students posted scores high enough to put