What Is The Theme Of Technology In Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, is the story of a fireman named Guy Montag, who learns to think beyond what he has been told his whole life. Bradbury creates a technological society that Montag lives in to be a driven area where no one thinks for himself, doesn’t have an original idea, and where everybody has no opinion on where they belong in the community. Montag discovers that burning books and not thinking for himself isn’t the whole truth as he continues to open his mind to different ideas presented throughout the book. Montag lives his life thinking books are devilish and immoral because he initially believes the lies under the delusion of his wife, Millie. His boss, Beatty tells him that books are a waste of time and have no purpose to them even though he reads books and some books, mainly instructions booklets, still exist for whoever needs to read them. Once in …show more content…
Clarisse opens Montag’s eyes almost instantly as she introduces new ideas about how life might have been and how life could be that way once again. Clarisse learns that Montag is a fireman and proposes unfamiliar concepts like how “firemen put fires out instead of going to start them.”(6) The idea of fires starting on their own, or on accident, is absurd to Montag as he has never heard of such a concept like that before. There is only one way for Montag to learn more, but through the most illegal way possible… by reading books. He decides to wait and see what Clarisse has to say, as they had already parted for the night and wouldn’t be able to converse anymore that night. He goes to bed thinking about Clarisse McClellan and how “odd”(6) she is on the matter of the weirdest concepts. Montag continues talking to Clarisse to fuel his secretive curiosity on other perceptions than the technological society has ever presented the people