In Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist, Guy Montag, slowly comes into a sense to realize the problems of his society. Originally, Montag is a fireman who loves to burn books. However, he later begins to question his job and wonder if his society is improving in philosophical thought. As the plot progresses, Montag begins to realize his society is deteriorating through the government’s misuse of new technology. Throughout Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury uses Montag to disparage the misuse of science and technology through the Mechanical Hound, television parlors, and nuclear weapons.
Bradbury criticizes the misuse of science and technology by firstly displaying the dominance of the Mechanical Hound throughout Fahrenheit 451. The objective of the Hound …show more content…
Nuclear weapons have the potential to wipe out entire nations, therefore, nuclear power poses a great danger to the public, especially when the power lies in the hands of a totalitarian government. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag’s society is constantly in war, because the government holds numerous restrictions over the people to keep them content. “The firehouse trembled as a great flight of jet planes whistled a single note across the black morning sky” (Bradbury 36). Throughout the story, Montag hints there are bombers flying around frequently, but there is no evidence of where they are going. The society in Fahrenheit 451 doesn’t realize the destruction war can bring until it ends. Their obsession with absurd entertainment is covering the thought of bloodshed. People are so empty with thoughts they don’t realize the threats occurring in their world. “Later, the men around Montag could not say if they had really seen anything. Perhaps the merest flourish of light and motion in the sky. Perhaps the bombs were there, and the jets, ten miles, five miles, one mile up, for the merest instant… down upon the morning city they had left behind” (Bradbury 160). After the mass destruction of the war through nuclear weapons, Montag finally comes into a sense and realizes the weaknesses his society had all this time. Nuclear power is inevitably catastrophic, but to Montag’s weak society, this overwhelmingly wipes out any trace of the city and their
Bradbury criticizes the misuse of science and technology by firstly displaying the dominance of the Mechanical Hound throughout Fahrenheit 451. The objective of the Hound …show more content…
Nuclear weapons have the potential to wipe out entire nations, therefore, nuclear power poses a great danger to the public, especially when the power lies in the hands of a totalitarian government. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag’s society is constantly in war, because the government holds numerous restrictions over the people to keep them content. “The firehouse trembled as a great flight of jet planes whistled a single note across the black morning sky” (Bradbury 36). Throughout the story, Montag hints there are bombers flying around frequently, but there is no evidence of where they are going. The society in Fahrenheit 451 doesn’t realize the destruction war can bring until it ends. Their obsession with absurd entertainment is covering the thought of bloodshed. People are so empty with thoughts they don’t realize the threats occurring in their world. “Later, the men around Montag could not say if they had really seen anything. Perhaps the merest flourish of light and motion in the sky. Perhaps the bombs were there, and the jets, ten miles, five miles, one mile up, for the merest instant… down upon the morning city they had left behind” (Bradbury 160). After the mass destruction of the war through nuclear weapons, Montag finally comes into a sense and realizes the weaknesses his society had all this time. Nuclear power is inevitably catastrophic, but to Montag’s weak society, this overwhelmingly wipes out any trace of the city and their