The Wrongs Of Society In Fahrenheit 451

The Wrongs of Society in Fahrenheit 451 Throughout history, engineers and inventors have created new technology, from the printing press to the iPhone. There have also been many times where society grew suspicious of this wave of new inventions, like humanity in the 1950’s. Within the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there are many important problems that he believed needed to be discussed, like a culture with a lack of an opinion, too much technology, and not enough authentic facts. To start, Bradbury was concerned with an opinionless society. Most people in Fahrenheit 451 trusted the government too much, as there was no controversy. It was as if everyone had the same mind as only cared about the same things. In fact, those who had an

Mildred is consumed with the walls and her family within them, as most people are in Fahrenheit 451. She converses them more than her own husband, Montag. When asking if she could buy a fourth wall, Mildred states, “If we had a fourth wall, why it’d be like this room wasn’t ours at all, but all kinds of exotic people’s rooms.” (18) This is an example of Bradbury’s concerns about being consumed in technology and using it to forget about life and actual problems. As a final point, another of Ray Bradbury’s concerns in Fahrenheit 451 was the lack of authentic facts. Because of the absence of opinion in society, the people were too trusting and therefore, the authority fed them false facts. Society ate up every little made up thing they heard, like when the jurisdiction told the nation that they were closing in on Montag, but in fact they were closing in on another man. As it says in the novel, “’There’s Montag! The search is done!’… The camera fell upon the victim, even as did the Hound.” (142) The authorities chose to call the man Montag although he was not, and nobody knew or cared. To put it briefly, the chief societal issues Bradbury was concerned about was an opinionless society, too much