Technologies have taken over the society for a long time, and it have affected the people in different ways. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the people in their society have overused technology which have influenced them in depending everything on it. The adverse effects of society’s overdependence on technology is the central theme in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Being overdependent on technologies have made a big impact on people since it has taken away their ability to think properly, is used for controlling people and ignore their surroundings. Ray Bradbury have shown that being overdependent on technology is the main theme in Fahrenheit 451.
In the beginning of the book, it is clearly shown that technologies has taken away people’s …show more content…
By distracting the people from reality, many of their society’s flaws are being well hidden. In the second chapter of the book, The Sieve and The Sand, Mildred’s friends, Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Phelps came to watch a television show in Mildred’s house. Montag then started a conversation between those two women and asked questions regarding their lives. “Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you’ve had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarean sections, too, your children who hate your guts!” (Pg. 98) This quote shows the modern society that technology can distract people from knowing which was important and which was not. If Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Phelps weren’t being so overdependent on the technologies around them, making them ignore their surroundings, then she would have been worried about her husbands and children. In the first chapter of the book, Montag asks Mildred about Clarisse, their neighbour. Ignoring the fact that somebody was missing, Mildred answered his question with a simple answer. “I meant to tell you. Forgot. Forgot.” “Tell me now. What is it?” “I think she’s gone.” (Pg. 44) This quote tells the readers that technology makes people forget about what was happening in
In the beginning of the book, it is clearly shown that technologies has taken away people’s …show more content…
By distracting the people from reality, many of their society’s flaws are being well hidden. In the second chapter of the book, The Sieve and The Sand, Mildred’s friends, Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Phelps came to watch a television show in Mildred’s house. Montag then started a conversation between those two women and asked questions regarding their lives. “Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you’ve had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarean sections, too, your children who hate your guts!” (Pg. 98) This quote shows the modern society that technology can distract people from knowing which was important and which was not. If Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Phelps weren’t being so overdependent on the technologies around them, making them ignore their surroundings, then she would have been worried about her husbands and children. In the first chapter of the book, Montag asks Mildred about Clarisse, their neighbour. Ignoring the fact that somebody was missing, Mildred answered his question with a simple answer. “I meant to tell you. Forgot. Forgot.” “Tell me now. What is it?” “I think she’s gone.” (Pg. 44) This quote tells the readers that technology makes people forget about what was happening in