Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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(AGG) Technological devices are seen to be either good or bad, as it depends on how the user uses it. “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.”-Christian Lous Lange. (BS-1) There are many parts in the book where technology comes into role. (BS-2) Technology is used an insane amount of times and causes many problems to people. (BS-3) With all the technology devices in Fahrenheit 451, there were two certain ones that played the largest role. (TS) Ray Bradbury conveys that technology is treacherous in the book.

(MIP-1) Technology and the use of it plays a big role in the book Fahrenheit 451, which leads to problems. (SIP-A) Technology devices like the parlour were mentioned a numerous amount of times for the entertainment for people. (STEWE-1) Parlour walls are very entertaining to people. They are similar to the TV’s seen in our world but it is different with having it compose of wall to wall TV’s. This is what the citizens live by. “They sat in the hall because the parlour was so empty and grey-looking without its walls lit with orange and yellow confetti and sky-rockets and women in gold-mesh dresses and men in black velvet pulling one-hundred-pound rabbits from silver hats” (67). As observed, parlour walls can easily magnetize people to use it due to how entertaining it sounds. Parlour walls are surely entertaining to the people, however it is known that being entertained by it for hours is
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(BS-3) With all the technology devices in Fahrenheit 451, there were two certain ones that played the largest role. (BS-2) Technology is used an insane amount of times and causes many bad things to happen to people. (BS-1) There are many parts in the book where technology comes into role. (R) Technology never had the intention to ruin people nor did it have the intention to make everyone happy, use it properly with

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