What Is The Theme Of Technology In Fahrenheit 451

Lilly Davis
Mrs. Leitsch
English 1
14 March 2023
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While reading, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a theme stuck with me. People often think they know everything about something or just assume there's nothing to be worried about but this book made me connect it to things that happen today. Often people make decisions without knowing all the sides to it or thinking it completely through. In Fahrenheit 451, it touches on how technology has two sides and can be used to create positive advancements in the world but also be used for unfavorable things. To show this theme I chose to create a double sided canvas to capture the things you see about technology and the things we choose to ignore or don’t know about and how it is demonstrated in

He included how technology can be used for non-benefiting things, “Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat, or chicken caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.” (22). They created new technological devices that were used to kill things and people. The people got so use to using devices for everything they didn’t think anything bad of having a machine that kills. People today are not concerned with phones knowing everything about them whats next? The Mechanical Hound represents all the things the government created and how the people are unphased by it. I feel like this is because technology is such a large part of their life that they can’t see the unpleasant results. In the book, Mildred and her friends were watching tv and Montag unplugged it and the women were speechless, “The perspiration gathered with the silence and the subaudible trembling around and about and in the women who were burning with tension.” (92) Mildred and her friends could not deal with talking about everyday things because they were so unattached from the world and were in their tv