Examples Of Technology In Fahrenheit 451

In almost all of Ray Bradbury’s books, they all revolve on how technology has affected their society in a negative way. Bradbury’s most famous book, Fahrenheit 451, explores through a dystopian society in which man has become so ignorant that they burn books and spend their days in a TV parlor. He wanted to put out the message that the future generations will be addictives technology. Unfortunately, we are inching closer every day to this fictional society because we rely on technology. For example, we expect on a tv or our smartphones to take away our boredom. In most of his books, the citizens become so anti-social and cruel that they don’t care that people have died. In Fahrenheit 451, when Montag asks about what happened to their neighbor, Clarisse, Mildred answers so insensitively as if it was a common …show more content…
The technology made them so miserable that Mildred even tries to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. When Montag tries to confront her about it, she tries to deny him and attempts to convince Montag and herself that everything was okay. “‘Oh I wouldn’t do that.’ … ‘I wouldn’t do a thing like that. Why would I do a thing like that?’ she said… ‘What would I want I want to go and do a silly thing like that for?’” (Mildred, pg 17). In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury supports his depressed, weak society by letting it go into war. After Montag was welcomed by Granger and his gang, they see bomb jets fly over them and land in the city leaving in shambles. Bradbury intentionally let all of the technology-crazy people in the city to die. “But Clarisse, he remembered, was dead. And Faber was out, there in the deep valleys of the country somewhere the five a.m. bus was on its way from one desolation to another… And Mildred… He saw her in her leaning toward the great shimmering walls of color…” (F451, pg 152). This is a message by Bradbury telling us that a weak society like that will have no doubt fall apart to dust, like the one in Fahrenheit 451

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