Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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As humanity, we always admire how far we come from our primitive ancestors and we see these changes in different perspectives. Some are good, such as the capability of using clean energy and the amount of peace that is within the world, and some are bad like innovations in weapons to kill large amounts of the opposing side, but there is one specific creation of man that society prefers to reflect on. This creation is like a diluted mirror, it shows us our greatest accomplishments and all the spectacular task it does for us, but it doesn’t show us what it leaves behind in its wake. It doesn’t show how it makes us into hollow shells that no longer contain the fire of humanity. This terrible innovation has quenched the fire that makes us human by quelling the kindle of knowledge and the igniting power of thought. This innovation is technology and modernization, and it was our greatest creation, it was meant to make us better, but the reality is it has made us into sheep and it became our Sheppard. Ray Bradbury in his book “Fahrenheit 451” used this possibility of reality to form his dystopian society of where the people burn books and persecute those who even own one. This society of Bradbury are the results of their predecessors relying on the diluted mirror of technology to see what …show more content…

While the other passengers let this message from the speaker invaded their minds and take root. This is evident by their actions of “tapping their feet to the rhythm of Denham’s Dentifrice”(pg.79) and “[Their] mouths [were] faintly twitching the words Denham’s Dentifrice”. These actions invoke that the citizens of this wretched future society are used to being controlled by their technology and that they let their technology control what they

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