Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury criticizes the government’s control over every nit-picky thing. The main character, Guy Montag, is a fireman. Except, not the kind that is expected in our world. Firemen in Montag’s world burn books, houses...people. Books are considered evil, because they make people question and think. In this world they make everything everything about technology. It slowly swallows the world whole in one foul swoop. For example with Mildred, Montag’s wife, she is enveloped with the parlour walls. Parlour walls are televisions the size of an entire wall. As Montag started to get closer to the edge of his subconscious, he began to realize how ridiculous the uses of technology was becoming. At one point

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