Guy Maddin

Throughout the history of film and television, writers have explored the dangers and what-ifs of human society, when it is closely intertwined with technology. The Netflix anthology series, Black Mirror, is, “about the way we live now – and the way we might be living in 10 minutes' time if we're clumsy” says the shows creator, Charlie Brooker. Black Mirror presents itself as dark, satirical, cautionary tales about technology that play on one’s own uncertainty and unease about the present and…

1. In the case of Century Insurance Ltd v Northern Ireland Road Transport Board the vicarious liability applied, where the lighting of a match to light a cigarette and throwing it on the floor while transferring petrol from a lorry to a tank was held to be in the scope of employment. It is observed that, where an employee is acting in a manner which is expressly prohibited by the employer, but acting in his everyday tasks and duties then the employer is vicariously liable. 2. In the case of…

Einstein once said, “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” Einstein indirectly referred to the society in Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451. In this story, the protagonist, Guy Montag, is a “fireman” that sets homes on fire if it rumored to have a book in it. The society that Montag lives in is completely dependent on the use of technology. This story shows just how powerful technology can be. Though today’s world…

1. Symbolism: In the passage, “But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we’re doing the same thing, over and over, but we’ve got one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did,” (Bradbury 163) the phoenix is a symbol of the human race. However, unlike the phoenix, who forgets its mistakes, the human race remembers and repeats all its failures. This symbolism shows how the human race will…

The First Amendment states that “Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech or press….” It is our right to read and write as we please; therefore the concept of book banning is preposterous. For children, ruins authors emotionally and economically, intrigues kids to learn about inappropriate ideas, and book banning restricts the use of books as teaching tools. Lastly, banning a book absolutely destroys the author emotionally and economically. For starters, when a writers book…

under fifty-five miles per hour. Everyone obeys these laws because they fear the mechanical hound will come after them and inject with morphine. They also pump fear into people by televising events where the mechanical hound captures people. After Guy Montag was suspected of owning books and murdering Beatty, the police force used a mechanical hound to track him down. As the search for Montag was going on, the mechanical hound lost his scent and it appeared that Montag had evaded being…

I will present the differences and similarities between the two novels as I compare and contrast them. In both, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and George Orwell’s 1984, their main characters are very similar in nature and mannerisms. Similarities of Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451 and Winston Smith in 1984, are that they both…

Henry David Thoreau once wrote "If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man." This statement is important in the Chris McCandless case on whether he is a transcendentalist or not for the reasoning that if you do not live the way you are supposed to, based on nature, you will ultimately die. Thoreau was considered a true transcendentalist; but when you really study him you will see how he does not match with all of the beliefs of a transcendentalist. Transcendentalists…

Burning the Blind: Silent Screams In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) many different literary elements were used in his writing to express his overall message for the book. Bradbury illustrates a futuristic community in which everybody is told what to do. Firefighters, which include Montag, are forced to burn every book in sight by the government. Montag had a very unusual encounter with a young girl who opened his eyes to the world in front of him. Rebelling against the government,…

make you something else is the greatest accomplishment,” Ralph Waldo Emerson. The quote explains how one must think for themselves and to be true to themselves without the influences of society. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses the protagonist Guy Montag to express how human beings struggle to strive for individualism when society influence limits one to think for themselves. He enhances this idea throughout the novel using characterization, conflict of the story, and symbolism.…