Society's Restrictions In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

(MIP-1) People in this society have lost the important things in life due to society’s restrictions, and have many effects from this that involve knowledge and memory.

(SIP-A) People are unhappy with their life.

(STEWE-1) When Montag takes Mildred to the hospital after her overdose, one of the operators of the machine says “'We get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had the special machines built... You don't need an M.D. case like this; all you need is two handymen, clean up the problem in half an hour.'" (Bradbury 13). This is an example of what happens to people who are put under society’s controls. Since people can’t be unique, and think, people get very depressed. What’s the point of life if you

When people are put under society’s restrictions, they spend their life in front of the TV, and that’s all they live for. They ignore any real life aspects of life such as having family, spouses, children, etc. They don’t even realize that their life is falling apart, because watching TV and ignoring everyone else is apart of the norm. Because watching TV is apart of the norm, since society pushes it onto people, they have no life. This excerpt from the novel shows this because in is split second, before her death, Mildred realizes how shallow and insignificant her life was. She saw her shallow face, not full of life, and realized the life she was living was no life at all. She sees her hands by her side. These hands that never created anything, just stayed next to her. They never produced a painting, stories, anything abstract. Without any happy memories or any knowledge, no one in this society has much of a life. This affects people because they have nothing to do, nothing to contribute to the

This is how people get affected by restrictions because all that matters to them is technology since that is all society lets them do (watching TV, etc). Society pushes technology onto people so that they can focus on useless gadgets instead of the violent war around them, and the evidence of a wasted life. These devices limit people from knowledge because it mindlessly entertains them, and limits memories because people don’t get out and have a life because they stay glued to technology. Society encourages people that TV is their family so that if something happens to their family, there is no outbursts of revenge and sadness (this is similar to one of Millie’s friends, who says she will not miss her husband if he dies in the war). Technology essentially is used to distract people. Distract people from the war, from their families, from their life. With this, there are effects on society’s people. In this written account from the novel, we see Mildred, who turned her husband in the the firemen, showing she has no love for him, and the only object she will miss and feel guilty about leaving is: you guessed it, her TV. Society has created these people that are only focused on TV, and these people suffer because they have no love, no