The accessibility of technology such as the Seashell Radio, an equivalent to modern-day earphones, television, and fast cars contributes to the suppression of the character's emotions. However, the characters refuse to address their emotional struggle because technology plays a main role in their culture. The Seashell Radio’s use is most apparent in Mildred:
The thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 12).
The Seashell radio removes Mildred from reality and allows her to …show more content…
She relies on the seashell so much that she has it stuffed into her ears and listens to it for days on end, even when she is asleep. Eventually, her feelings and thoughts are swept away by the waves of the serene sea music. On the other hand, the large television walls broadcast five-minute movies and violent shows that continuously flips to a new program. The fast pacing of these shows retards the character’s emotions because the characters fail to fully develop their emotions based on the content of the shows. The characters are always distracted with the use of technology that they never stop to question if they are really satisfied with their life. Instead, their emotions are subdued with dangerous coping methods. The most common method is to take a massive amount of sleeping pills. Other times, the characters drive cars at one hundred miles per hour or more to suppress their unhappiness. In fact, the roads in the city are kept empty to allow people to drive carelessly. “Right now I’ve got an awful feeling I want to smash things and kill
The thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 12).
The Seashell radio removes Mildred from reality and allows her to …show more content…
She relies on the seashell so much that she has it stuffed into her ears and listens to it for days on end, even when she is asleep. Eventually, her feelings and thoughts are swept away by the waves of the serene sea music. On the other hand, the large television walls broadcast five-minute movies and violent shows that continuously flips to a new program. The fast pacing of these shows retards the character’s emotions because the characters fail to fully develop their emotions based on the content of the shows. The characters are always distracted with the use of technology that they never stop to question if they are really satisfied with their life. Instead, their emotions are subdued with dangerous coping methods. The most common method is to take a massive amount of sleeping pills. Other times, the characters drive cars at one hundred miles per hour or more to suppress their unhappiness. In fact, the roads in the city are kept empty to allow people to drive carelessly. “Right now I’ve got an awful feeling I want to smash things and kill