Fahrenheit 451 Technology
In this fast–paced society where our lives are surrounded by technology and is apart of our everyday lives, it of utmost importance that we consider and are able to understand the role of technology, not only in our lives but also in society. In his 1953 novel, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury demonstrates the damaging role that technology has on society. Throughout his novel, he constantly reinforces the negative impacts that technology has on us, namely how it replaces meaningful relationships, keeps us oblivious and controls us. As stated, Ray Bradbury uses his novel Fahrenheit 451 as a canvas to show and argue that role that technology has on society is to control and influence the lives and minds of citizens.
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For instance, at the beginning of the story, Clarisse states she believes that jet car drivers do not know what grass is or what a flower is as they are never driving slowly enough. "I sometimes think that drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers because they never see them clearly," (Bradbury, 6). This states that the development of these technological cars has kept people ignorant. It is a symbolizes how the advancement of technology has created a world where everything is happening too fast for people to be fully aware of their surroundings, just as the racecar driver is always driving too fast to properly observe their surroundings. In addition, in one of the first scenes of the book, Guy Montag comes home to find his wife overdosed on sleeping pills and subsequently calls the paramedics. However, the next morning she has no recollection of the event and Montag suggests a possible explanation of her overdose. "Maybe you took two pills and forgot, took two more, and forgot again and took two more, and were so dopey you kept right on until you had thirty or forty in you" (Bradbury, 17).
Throughout the novel, we can see Mildred's ignorance through isolating herself into her parlor wall and seashell. The seashell radio has caused her to become so oblivious of herself that she takes forgets if she took her sleeping pills and overdoses and has no recollection of the event. This shows us that technology has taken over so many aspects of our lives that it has begun to take over our memories and make us oblivious to even the events of our own life. Through this, we are able to see just how technology has overtaken our lives and has ultimately kept us oblivious to the events of our own society as well as our own Get
