Technology In Fahrenheit 451

Imagine being a room full of people, except they aren’t really people. Instead they are just impassive bodies taking up space. A rather uncomfortable situation, right? So how did these unexpressive humans get to be the way they are? The answer is simply advanced. Technology. As of today, technology has a role in just about every activity completed, in the novel , Fahrenheit 451, as well, where their civilization is extremely censored from creativity and ideas. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury describes a society where technology is used to block out creativity by distraction, which makes this story relevant to present time because even though those citizens were facing more trouble than people today, technology is still taking over everyone. …show more content…
Those people are living in a situation where emotions are not accepted, so they come across very boring. As a result, relationships among citizens are distant and no interest appears. This reoccurs from the constant interference of technology which breaks up people’s feelings towards one another. Bradbury writes,”How do you get so empty? He wondered. Who takes it out of you?and that awful flower the other day, the dandelion! It had summed up everything hadn't it? What a shame. You not in love with anyone! And why not?”(44). Here , Montag’s eyes begin to open and he understands how weak his marriage is because all feelings Mildred and Montag might have for each other are being drowned out by the future’s gadgets like their parlor walls, so in current time, TV might be compared to the parlor room in the way it takes away people's attention from each other and has them focused on screens. Bradbury then continues,”... A wall between him and Mildred… literally no just one, but so far three! Expensive, too! And the uncles, aunts, cousins, the nieces, the nephews, that lived in those walls, the gibbering pack of tree apes that said nothing, nothing, nothing and said it loud, loud, loud”(44). Again, the parlor walls stand in the way of Guy's marriage by luring his wife away from her only family to a pretend one. While time is being wasted in the “living room”, a real relationship could have been developing between the two. Connecting to 2015, comes the bitter truth that technology seems to show more appealing qualities than spending time with any person around. It has become clear that Mildred chooses electronics over getting too personal with Guy , and current society shows more interest than other activities ,which is unfortunate for both cases. Both are proof that technology is one of the biggest interferences between relationships both from the book and today, making the story relevant to

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Technology Fahrenheit 451