The novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury is a great example of how technology can be used to distract people from their own thoughts and influences society to focus on the less important things in life. The book teaches the reader to focus on small things and it also shows how technology prevents people from having certain relationships with people that they should. One character Bradbury uses to persuade the reader that technology isn’t always a fortunate luxury, is Mildred, Guy Montags wife. During the book, Mildred is so interested in the “parlor” that she believes the characters are her family members. Clearly she is so vulnerable to the ways of everyone else that she does not understand Guy Montag when he tries to explain new things …show more content…
Guy Montag, the second character, is a firefighter who starts to feel a certain guilt about his job. In Fahrenheit 451 the firefighters take on a different role than in real life. In this novel the firefighters burn books and any homes housing books. Montag meets a young lady, Clarrise, and she questioned him “Are you happy” (Bradbury 7), and from that moment forward Montag wasn’t the same. As a firefighter, he saw things and had to do things that started to feel wrong. A call came in one day about a women housing thousands of books, of course they had to burn her house down, but the woman refused to exit her home. Later on that day Montag went home to Mildred and they had a conversation about burning the lady in the house, and Montag states “I didn’t like myself anymore” (Bradbury 41). This statement leads the reader to believe that he doesn’t want to continue burning books, burning …show more content…
She doesn’t rely on technology to control her or tell her how she should emotionally feel or live. She notices nature and also expresses her feelings, she isn’t afraid to be unique and showing others who she is. Everyone who knows Clarisse thinks that she is weird, because her society does not accept people like Clarisse. Because she is “weird” no one really bothers to talk to her or notice her. She knows that she is different; she realizes what makes her different and accepts it as a good thing. She says to Montag “Bet I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in the morning” (Bradbury 7). After she pointed out the fact that dew is present in the mornings Montag could not remember if he had known this or not. Clarisse cared about things small as the book, society was only interested in the technology that existed when they should have been more worried about nature and other
The Shift After interpreting the motif technology, Bradbury starts to shift the spotlight to nature and expose technology as destructive. This shift is most precedent in fictional character Guy Montag. He had started his journey overwhelmed with technology, to the point where he couldn't even see the side of nature. Mildred starts his journey off and shows Guy just how unhappy he is and what technology has done to this society. Beatty then furthers his mentality with his constant interference and ironic knowledge about books.
There are a number of subjects that are shown in the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury but the main subject that he uses to get his point across is how technology can be distracting. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury addresses the subject of Technology, suggesting that some forms of technology can be very distracting. Bradbury uses dialogue between two or more characters, and inner conflict in characters to show his idea. To create his idea, Bradbury uses dialogue between characters to show how distracting technology can be. For example, “‘Doesn’t everyone look nice!’
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was about a firefighter named Guy Montag. In this society, firemen start fires instead of putting them out. Books in this society are illegal and you aren’t allowed to read and if you were to get caught reading the book, it would be set on fire. People watched lots of television as big as the wall, called parlors. They also listen to the radio attached to their ears.
In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, a story is told about a man named Guy Montag, a fireman who burns books in a society where books are illegal and everyone is trying to be happy in the wrong ways. Montag ends up questioning the ordinary and discovers that books are the answer, not the curse, so he escapes society to start all over. Through Montag’s experiences and influences, he learns that there is more to the strange life he is living, which changes his character. “It was a pleasure to burn” (Bradbury 1); says Guy Montag. Montag is content with his way of living.
Technology, it provides entertainment and something to do, but if you get too attached to it, you won’t notice anything else, but it, this is what happened to the society in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The society in this book is so attached and addicted to technology that, that’s all they care for. The technology has affected the society’s way of life and has turned it into a way that is filled with distractions. The society can be and is much more healthier, when they don’t have the technology. This society in Fahrenheit 451 is deeply affected by the technology they have.
Montag and the other firemen are on a job where they come across an middle age woman’s house. She refuses to leave her books “you can’t ever have my books” (38). So she stays behind with her books and burns along with them. The firemen don’t have a problem with it except for Montag of course. Montag cannot cope with what he has just done and his mental state will never be the
Technology has became huge in these past years and it will only get bigger. Just yesterday the computer came out and today, there are so much more than that. In Fahrenheit 451 technology is like no other, there are mechanical dogs, rooms with TV walls and ear pieces. Who would think a world like that is possible? This could be our world's future.
One could state that Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a social commentary piece in the 1950s. The 1950s were a time of technological advancements. Technology makes things more convenient for this society. At a glance, everything seemed perfect; however, when one looks past that first layer of the faultless surface, they see how truly corrupt the time period was. There was a constant fear that one’s neighbor was a spy, people began to become ignorant toward their surroundings, and there was even a lingering feeling that war would be declared at any time.
The novel “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury is a cautionary tale to present-day readers about the detrimental influence of modern technology and the dependency society has on it. In this dystopian style future illustrated throughout the book, all forms of practical education are outlawed. Books and critical thinking are strictly banned while weak, mindless entertainment reigns supreme. The entirety of this novel is meant to act as an urgent wake up call to the current and future generations to realize the toxic effects of the reliance people have on technology.
How Technology Leads to Sadness “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” This quote by Christian Lous Lange symbolically shows the relationship between humans and technology and how it can affect people in a good or bad way. Technology can is a great tool for society that provides a service. However, technology can also draw people to it and make it hard for them to turn away.
When Montag is sent out with his brigade to burn down a book owner’s house, Montag sees that the owner stayed in the house and burned down with it. “There must be something in books… to make a woman stay in a burning house ” (51). Montag realizes that there must be something - something important, something worthwhile - to cause a person to commit suicide and die with that knowledge. At the start of the story, Montag sees fire as just a way to clean up, a way to keep things in line, a way to turn white pages into black ash. But fire develops a different meaning than that.
She is the first character who engages in deep conversations with Montag. Clarisse stuns Montag during their first encounter by asking many questions and sharing her thoughts and ideas. She asks if Montag is happy, but she quickly runs off towards her house, without waiting for a response (Bradbury and Gaiman 7). Montag doesn’t understand why she would ask such a ridiculous question, however, he can’t stop thinking about it. He has only had one other peculiar conversation, where he communicated like this and it was about a year ago, with an old man in the park (Bradbury and Gaiman 8).
(STEWE-2) Besides asking questions about society’s relationships, Montag questions further and starts asking about society’s rules on burning books after he experiences a woman burn with her books. He says to Mildred, “'There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there.'" (Bradbury 48). Montag, before, had blindly followed and enforced society’s rules about burning books.
By contrasting Mildred's actions to Clarisse's actions, Bradbury demonstrates how nobody talks to each other anymore and just spends all their time watching TV. Mildred, Montag’s wife, does not interact with anybody anymore because she is completely absorbed in technology. When Montag wants to talk to Mildred, she does not want to interact with others and just wants to keep watching television. Montag asks "Will you turn the parlour off?" and Mildred responds "That's my family."
As Montag strolling home one night, he spots Clarisse with her head tilted to the sky, seeing this Montag inquires to her as why she stay there facing the sky and she simply replies “I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes like wine”(20). In the futuristic world that Bradbury creates, people who linger behind and smell the roses, much like Clarisse, seem crazy to the rest of society and fail to fit in with the crowd. She worries not about getting where she needs to go but focuses more on what was on the way. This leads Clarisse to seem mentally unstable and even she begins to believe it.