The Mechanical Hound Argumentative Analysis

When one thinks of a futuristic society, it is often imagined to be a place filled with positives. With flying cars, and cures to all illnesses, the future can be seen as a place where everything wrong with society is righted. Contrary to this, Bradbury had a different approach on the outcome of a society in a futuristic setting, and its foremost feature of the technological advances was the eight-legged beast called The Mechanical Hound (otherwise known as The Hound). The Mechanical Hound was a beast of extraordinary technological prowess, and Bradbury certainly projected that in a negative way. The creature had been used to track, find and kill those who had books in their possession with its ability to lock onto a person or animal’s complex …show more content…
“ All we put into [The Mechanical Hound] is hunting and killing. What a shame if that’s all it will ever know…”(Bradbury, 31) by this, Montag shows his ability to think critically, and question what he had been told his entire lifetime (That the Hound should be used for killing). It is unquestionable that a piece of technology so intelligent on its own should be used to help people. If the Hound could locate those guilty of owning books, then could it not have helped locate missing children or people buried under avalanches, and do so with extreme accuracy? In the novel, after Montag had been struck by The Hound’s procaine needle, he witnessed its abilities in full force as it rendered his leg useless. Though he could not move his leg, he attempted to fend off the vicious robot. “[The Mechanical Hound] seemed to want to get back at him and finish the injection.”(Bradbury,120) by this, the narrator is clearly describing the ferocity of this piece of technology. The Hound is so finely programmed to search and destroy that it would stop at nothing to stick Montag again and finally kill him, almost as if the machine had the desire to do