Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury is the author of the well known classic, Fahrenheit 451 (451). 451 is a dystopian novel about a society where books are banned and human interaction is a rare epidemic. Throughout the novel, Bradbury hints and gives messages about how he believes our society will decline. He describes scenes of a world with no sense of concentration, no face to face communication, and no individuality. The presence of these three topics are clear throughout the book, using the dystopian world as a light shadow of our community. The growing lack of concentration throughout society is shown as a precursor in 451. Bradbury constantly used onomatopoeias to signify how quickly everything goes in the book’s world. This is shown when Beatty, one of the book’s characters, says “Speed up the film, Montag, quick. Click Pic, Look, Eye, Now, Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace, Up, Down, In,

Multiple occasions throughout 451 the idea of no real communication is exercised. For example, Mildred Montag spends more time in the parlor than she does talking with her husband. She also has an obsession with it, talking only to Guy about buying a fourth wall instead of having any real conversation (Bradbury, 20). This shows that Mildred prefers a virtual reality over other people. Ray Bradbury created Mildred to show an extreme side of his opinion, where humans would rather look to a screen than a peer. Another way he showed his opinion is when Guy was surprised that Clarisse was talking to him (Bradbury 7). In the dystopian world Guy lives in, it’s strange for people to converse with each other, just as Bradbury predicts for our society. Bradbury’s predictions aren’t too far off of our world today. Most people would choose to text rather than talk face to face, which is close to the parlor. With the invention of virtual reality headsets and smart tvs, the world could very well be on it’s way to Bradbury’s