Examples Of Technology In Fahrenheit 451

(AGG) In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, technology affects the citizens of this society in many ways. (BS-1) The citizens are so dead inside and ill that they have lost all of their human traits causing the only human-like people left are the educated citizens who enjoy the books in which the society is trying to get rid of. (BS-2) Citizens of the drowned society do not care about anything else but their precious technology. (BS-3) In the end, the educated individuals who understand their society are the ones who survive the longest. (TS) Clearly, the author intended to show us that we can/will lose our humanity if we become obsessed with all technology around us.

(MIP-1) In the book, technology is everywhere, surrounding

(STEWE-1) The person had done nothing wrong they were just walking down the street minding their own business and were killed. “The search is over, Montag is dead; a crime against society has been avenged. Darkness.’’ Again, showing the society would kill someone just for entertainment when they had done nothing wrong. It’s as if they just said the show must go on and didn’t care about someone’s whole life ending. (STEWE-2) Faber explains that in this society, “Only the ‘family’ is ‘people’” (Bradbury 80). There is also an example of this when Mildred is walking out after turning Montag in (most likely to be killed) and is saying, "Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now" (Bradbury 108). This is when we see that Mildred never loved Montag. It seems like she just used Montag so he could buy her electronics. She didn’t care he was about to be taken away or killed forever. Mildred just cared about all her electronics being burned down in the house. (CS) Concluding, because of technology, the citizens of this ill society do not care about their family, each other, or each other’s feelings. They only care about their parlor families and the technology around

(SIP-A) We see the citizens who do not use technology understand everything going on around them. (STEWE-1) While Mildred was going on and on about the parlors and how she loves them, Montag ask, "Does your `family' love you, love you very much, love you with all their heart and soul, Millie?" (Bradbury 73). This shows how Montag understands his society as he ask/explains to Millie that her real family loves her while she is so obsessed with her parlor family that she thinks the ‘family’ who has no idea who she is, loves her back. (STEWE-2) Once in the real world were Montag is left with his thoughts he remembers where he and Mildred met. “I remember. Chicago. Chicago, a long time ago. Millie and I. That's where we met! I remember now. Chicago. A long time ago” (Bradbury 153). This shows Montag is able to remember this once in nature and the real world, while he couldn’t before when in an ill society. (SIP-B) The only people in the society that do anything human-like are the ones that are educated and want books back. (STEWE-1) In the society people do nothing human-like. They sit at home all day watching the parlors or go and drive reckless as Faber explains, “If you're not driving a hundred miles an hour, at a clip where you