Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Fahrenheit 451 was written with a setting of technological advances. The author of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, demonstrates the life without books while having technology so advanced where people are not able to think for themselves. The main character, Montag, experiences curiosity of what a few people saw within books in which lead him to value books and doubt the life he lived. Today, readers of Fahrenheit 451 can attain a dominant and powerful message due to parallel relationships between today’s world and novel’s world. People live to have every new technological device. Mildred, Montag’s wife, tries to convince Montag to have a fourth wall-TV she states, “It’s only two thousand dollars,” (Bradbury 20). The novel has people wanting …show more content…

Marriage in this society is not really important since the mutual love that they should have is not present. Marrying more than once is very common in the society since there should not be any feeling toward your husband or wife. The percent of divorces has been increasing dramatically according to the Midwest Quarterly and the reasons for it have changed throughout time having money be one of the issues, “Now [wives] are held by financial force,” (Levitt, Paul M. "Marriage and Divorce in Early Twentieth Century Drama."Student Resources in Context. 2015. Web. 25 May 2016.) Today many people do not take marriage seriously. There are many that find an excuse to divorce and get married again. Technology has replaced books and other activities slowly throughout time just as it did in Fahrenheit 451 which also affected people’s ability to think for themselves. Montag already had background information on how the government was not involved with books disappearing, but Faber explains to him how technology “rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn’t time to protest,” (Bradbury 84). The American Conservative mentions how technology is important in today’s world, but it “has the overlooked of making human life less human.” Yes the novel’s setting is not exactly the same

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