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Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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The book Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a futuristic society that burns books and worships technology. Bradbury shows the reader how advanced technology could affect how people interact with each other. Such as through Mildred who is constantly distracted by her technology. Bradbury warns that too much technology usage could lead our society to become like the society in Fahrenheit 451. Due to Mildreds obsession with her seashell headphones her relationship with Montag weakens. One day when Montag comes home Mildred is passed out on the bed. When Montag checks to see if she's fine the only sound he hears is “the singing of the thimble-wasps in her tamped shut ears.”(Bradbury 13) Later in the morning Montag wakes up to find that Mildred still …show more content…

The morning after Mildreds overdose one of the first things she asks after Montag wakes up is can we get a “fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall TV put in?”(Bradbury 18) Another time Montag reveals that he sleeps with a “wall between [him] and Mildred.”(Bradbury 44) We can also see this obsession with TVs right after Montag reveals his hidden stash of books. When he tries to start reading with Mildred all she seemed to care about was that “the white clowns on tonight.”(Bradbury 70) In the book TV walls were very expensive and Montag would have to save up for about half the year to get one. So when Mildred asks for a fourth TV wall without explaining why at all or letting Montag put in his opinion had to make Montag feel like her slave. This would probably ruin a lot of relationships because she doesn't care about him in the least. Montag still thinks about it because he tries to care about Mildred's interests. Mildred on the other hand doesn't care about Montag's interest. We can see that when she doesn't even pretend to read with him she just goes onto one of her TV walls and blocks him out. Mildred also called the people on the TV her family showing that she genuinely cared about them ,but didn't call Montag her family letting us see yet again that Mildred just uses Montag as a bank and doesn't truly care for

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