Warning Themes In Fahrenheit 451

Ever wondered how science fiction writers always seem to be spot on with their predictions of the future and the problems that come with it? Maybe they’re magic, or, in the case of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (from hereon referred to as F451), the fear of a nuclear fallout and advancing technology will do the trick. The book follows Guy Montag, on his journey from burning books to valuing books and even leaving his own life behind for them. But, it seems that the warnings and themes that Bradbury presents in this distopic future are becoming slowly and surely more like our contemporary society even though this book was published in 1953. To start, a theme that was prominent throughout this story was censorship, a theme that is showing up

The citizens of this dystopian society listen and watch their walls, which is essentially a full screen television that mesmerizes people. Our contemporary society is showing signs of those same mesmerizing feelings, with our citizens being glued to our iPhones and Androids. Those technologies take away the capabilities to function in a society, as shown by the decline of outside interaction the citizens of F451 have. They are stuck watching their walls like zombies, or outside with a green bullet in their ear. This correlates to contemporary society by our teens and young adults going to job interviews and looking down, a sign that they have no idea how to conduct themselves in a public area. People argue that it makes information easier to find and it connects everyone in the world, and it's true, we talk more to people, but we dont communicate anymore. Finally, the distractions that the walls cause to the outside world is perhaps the biggest factor as to why this is a dystopian society in terms of technology. The walls show exciting, fast paced, and generally repetitive shows to keep an audience from doing something “stupid”, like read a book, learn, among others. This relates to our society by ways of video games and