Examples Of Dehumanization In Fahrenheit 451

It’s all about the courage to speak up about society, but everyone is inflicted with fear and follows the way society is run, and eventually, everyone is brainwashed. In Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451, society has been controlled by the influence of technology and government laws restricting the ownership of books or reading them. All day, their society is preoccupied with media on screens, influencing them to follow their decision making ruining the idea of individual thought. The main character Montag comes to his senses and wants to change their society back to how the past used to be. Throughout the book, Ray Bradbury uses the illegal use of books and knowledge to show the dehumanization of humans who don’t have any individual thoughts.

To demonstrate in the story, Montag is sick in bed and asks Mildred to turn down the volume on the t.v. But Mildred did nothing to it because the t.v is her family. ’"Will you turn the parlor off?" he asked. "That's my family." "Will you turn it off for a sick man?" "I'll turn it down." She went out of the room and did nothing to the parlor and came back. "Is that better?"’ (Bradbury 46). People in their society just watch t.v. and call it their “family”. They do and say anything their “family” wants them to, therefore not letting people have their own individual thoughts. Furthermore in the story, Montag turns off the T.V screen to try and get Mildred and her friends talking to each other like how it was in Clarisse’s house. “‘Montag reached inside the parlour wall and pulled the main switch. The images drained away, as if the water had been let out from a gigantic crystal bowl of hysterical fish. The three women turned slowly and looked with unconcealed irritation and then dislike at Montag.”’ (Bradbury 90). Mildred and her friends reacted harshly to Montag pulling the switch on the t.v screen because they felt like he killed their family by doing that. This shows that people in society are so caught up in technology, that when you meet up with friends you will just watch t.v with them instead of talking and having fun with each