Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

What has technology done to society

Technology is always a thought of good think but it's not imperative or necessary. Reading and thinking is so important in culture, books are a powerful source of knowledge. Getting rid of books is destroying culture. Bradbury tells the audience that an anti-utopia which people are so tied up in technology because they refuse to think and learn. But a small group of people are determined to remember books and learn from them, to show how much knowledge you can gain.

Technology shows the unhappiness for the society, causing depression and suicide. They are blinded in technology, and don’t realize it can be a dangerous thing. In the novel, some characters attempt suicide including Montag’s spouse, Mildred, who

To burn them down just because they have books. Beatty, Montag’s boss and also the Fire chief, tells Montag, “Montag, a funny thing. Heard tell me this morning. Fireman in Seattle purposely set a Hound to his own chemical complex and let it loose” (31). The depression and the lack of will to live is rampant throughout the entire society, even the Firemen commit suicide by the very thing that is supposed to help them, and Technologically Advanced Hound. They want everyone to be equal so if you get caught with a book they are dead. This makes it so depressing too. Another major problem among the young society is murder of their peers for entertainment. Clarisse McClellan, Montag’s neighbor, tells Montag about her classmates and how they “head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher or wreck cars in the Car Wrecker place. Or go out in cars and race on the streets playing chicken and knock hubcaps” (30). It is complete kayos. In the society, the teenagers’ personalities are psychopathic and dangerous. They bully other people and destroy objects for entertainment they think it is fun. Society in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 does not care