Bradbury’s Warning To Society
Bradbury’s novel can be used as a warning to society because he’s indicating that technology can take over a society completely. In today’s society technology makes up over half of most of our lives. We rely so much on it that we as humans start to not think for ourselves. We just let technology do all the thinking for us. Witch eats away at our ability to become more intelligent. And without intelligence the whole world could fall apart like in the novel Fahrenheit 451.
Bradbury asserts that in order for mankind to advance he must maintain emotion to to maintain intelligence.
If people are emotionless they can easily be controlled. People are violent especially when it's common to be emotionless in Montag’s …show more content…
If technology is doing all the work for you, then you’re not using your brain to do the thinking/research on your own which leads to ignorance. “But who has ever torn himself the claw encloses you when you drop a seed in a T.V. parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes!” Bradbury (pg. 84). Bradbury predicts a future where T.V. influences and shapes individuals. Families in that society doesn't speak to each other nor interact with each other because of technology. If technology becomes more important than the people around you and the world around you then you’re stuck in an illusion. “ Technology can be our best friend and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy on our cell phones.” (Steven Spielberg). People in Montag’s Society are so dipped into technology that it completely cuts off the real world from them. This is slowly happening to our society, we must change before it's too late. Technology holds people down and that's a fact. The Society in Fahrenheit 451 are like total puppets controlled by the T.V. “ Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority, We all have our parts to play, and it's up to you to know which ear you’ll listen.” (Bradbury). People usually like to think about the stuff that makes them happy, if they hear the truth and they don't like it then they won't listen to it, they’ll just dust it off like if it was never true. Bradbury is telling us that mankind cannot think properly if technology is doing all the thinking for
Bradbury’s novel can be used as a warning to society because he’s indicating that technology can take over a society completely. In today’s society technology makes up over half of most of our lives. We rely so much on it that we as humans start to not think for ourselves. We just let technology do all the thinking for us. Witch eats away at our ability to become more intelligent. And without intelligence the whole world could fall apart like in the novel Fahrenheit 451.
Bradbury asserts that in order for mankind to advance he must maintain emotion to to maintain intelligence.
If people are emotionless they can easily be controlled. People are violent especially when it's common to be emotionless in Montag’s …show more content…
If technology is doing all the work for you, then you’re not using your brain to do the thinking/research on your own which leads to ignorance. “But who has ever torn himself the claw encloses you when you drop a seed in a T.V. parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes!” Bradbury (pg. 84). Bradbury predicts a future where T.V. influences and shapes individuals. Families in that society doesn't speak to each other nor interact with each other because of technology. If technology becomes more important than the people around you and the world around you then you’re stuck in an illusion. “ Technology can be our best friend and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy on our cell phones.” (Steven Spielberg). People in Montag’s Society are so dipped into technology that it completely cuts off the real world from them. This is slowly happening to our society, we must change before it's too late. Technology holds people down and that's a fact. The Society in Fahrenheit 451 are like total puppets controlled by the T.V. “ Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority, We all have our parts to play, and it's up to you to know which ear you’ll listen.” (Bradbury). People usually like to think about the stuff that makes them happy, if they hear the truth and they don't like it then they won't listen to it, they’ll just dust it off like if it was never true. Bradbury is telling us that mankind cannot think properly if technology is doing all the thinking for