Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: Past Or Future?

Past or Future? Sometimes writers write about a world that does not exist yet. In case in which “Fahrenheit 451” was written was to warn people about their future. Ray Bradbury was writing about his future, which is our past. His purpose relayed through his own words, I wasn’t trying to predict the future,” he said. “I was trying to prevent it.”(Qtd.in The National). He was warning us about things. Back in his present the Cold War was going on; a war between Russia and America .Book and libraries in Russia were burned to keep society a way of thinking. Like in his past Germany government burned people (Jews) in concentration camps to keep them away from society, because of …show more content…
In Listen to the Echoes, Waller talks about how Bradbury began writing at the age of twelve: “He had a dream one day to find his books on a shell in the library”(18).Bradbury came of age during the Great Depression, his family moved to Los Angeles during the golden age of cinema ( Weller 45).The time where televisions put their first roots in society which black and white picture .And whole families were gathering around the television or radio to listen news. Bradbury saw huge advances in technology, and he looked at his own fear of what the future might hold. “Fahrenheit 451” about mind control about humanity and how government control of our lives through the technology. It’s about how we as humans begin by burning books and end by burning people. Bradbury said in his interview, “We lose much of what makes us human, and fiction is a lie that tells true things, over and over” (Weller 115). “Fahrenheit 451” is about our present and future, …show more content…
He said: “Fahrenheit is firmly based in technology and what we are doing to ourselves with television (Weller 118). Technology was created to keep people happy, for pleasure, in which in farter understanding to control society by lacking people’s freedom. In“Fahrenheit 451”, books were prohibited, the source of knowledge and thinking was not allowed. Since, Montag started reading books, started getting the knowledge form them; he began to feel the lack of communication. He couldn’t express himself or just have normal conversation. “Nobody listen any more. I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the wall. I just want someone to hear what I have to say”(Fahrenheit 78).Throughout, the novel Montag is transforming to a curious man, trying to convince his wife, but she is to manipulative with walls. In fact, she compares TV to her family in which we can conclude that she empty inside from this fake