The short story, The Pedestrian, is about a broken society trapped by the chains of technology. The technology in the society influenced significantly how the citizens live their lives, making them more monotonous and uninteresting. Ray Bradbury’s novel demonstrates the theme that technology can destroy a society by the removal of humanity, and thus creating a dystopian society with conformity, limited worldview, desensitisation, and a lack of communication.
As the main character, Leonard Mead, is taking a stroll down the street, he notices that the “cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it [is] not unequal to walking through a graveyard,” the neighborhood can be compared to a graveyard because the people in them are practically …show more content…
Leonard Mead lives, “in a city of three million,” where there was, “only one police car left,” this police car had no driver, because there was no need for a real person in the police car. The people of the society are so confined to their houses that they do not even commit any crimes, “crime [is] ebbing,” because all the people care about is television. Crime is an inevitable hardship that occurs in any society; technology, such as the television sets, have removed any desire for people to do anything else--even …show more content…
Mr. Mead says, “I guess you’d call me a writer,” and the police car replies, “no profession,” because writing is no longer valued in this society. Writing represents knowledge and writing spreads knowledge. The lack of writers displays that the people of the society are no longer actively seeking out knowledge. The people have became so invested in their television screens that they no longer learn. Curiosity is such a basic part of human nature, and a lack of curiosity develops into an unintelligent population. The people in the society can no longer acquire knowledge by reading and therefore have a very limited world view. In addition, an ignorant population can not be productive, and the society will become stagnant and
As the main character, Leonard Mead, is taking a stroll down the street, he notices that the “cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it [is] not unequal to walking through a graveyard,” the neighborhood can be compared to a graveyard because the people in them are practically …show more content…
Leonard Mead lives, “in a city of three million,” where there was, “only one police car left,” this police car had no driver, because there was no need for a real person in the police car. The people of the society are so confined to their houses that they do not even commit any crimes, “crime [is] ebbing,” because all the people care about is television. Crime is an inevitable hardship that occurs in any society; technology, such as the television sets, have removed any desire for people to do anything else--even …show more content…
Mr. Mead says, “I guess you’d call me a writer,” and the police car replies, “no profession,” because writing is no longer valued in this society. Writing represents knowledge and writing spreads knowledge. The lack of writers displays that the people of the society are no longer actively seeking out knowledge. The people have became so invested in their television screens that they no longer learn. Curiosity is such a basic part of human nature, and a lack of curiosity develops into an unintelligent population. The people in the society can no longer acquire knowledge by reading and therefore have a very limited world view. In addition, an ignorant population can not be productive, and the society will become stagnant and