Category: Fahrenheit 451

The book “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury is based on a futuristic timeline were everyone uses technology. In there everyday life but in their society books are banned so people don’t learn things and try to question the government. In Fahrenheit 451 technology is advanced even more advanced than were are today. Our society has the possibility of turning out like Ray Bradbury’s view of the future. Because though we arent as technologically sophisticated as Ray Bradbury’s depiction of the future. We do have some similarities such as their earshells and our airpods or their talking walls while we have alexa’s and google or siri.

In Fahrenheit 451 they have futuristic hounds which the police use to apprehend people and or kill them. And they don’t have normal firefighters because they don’t put out fire instead. They wait for people to call them if they see anybody reading a book to burn them or there house. Our main antagonist Guy Montag is a fireman he has done many bad deeds. Such as burn houses down but later in the story he meets a girl named clarisse who is different than everyone and sees things differently than everyone. She helps montag see differently too and also make him curious about books and what knowledge they have and why they are banned.

In fahrenheit 451 many people are in their own bubble they don’t care about much nor do they feel much because of technology. Technology has deeply taken control of Montag’s society. That they have their earshells in their ears at all times listening to the radio. And when their at home they have walls that are like Tvs they have vacuums that vacuum by themselves. People in montag’s society don’t pay attention to anything that is based about their technology.

Guy Montag end up taking a book and reading he doesn’t know what any of it books so he goes to a man named faber. Who helps montag understand the book because faber secretly reads book at home. Montag’s boss finds out he has a book and tells him to bring it in. But Montag makes a copy of the book which is a bible then he puts books in all the other firefighters houses and anonymously calls and basically black males them. And gets them all fired faber helped in this plan that montag came up with to ruin the firefighters.

This shows how Rad Bradbury’s depiction of the future that he imagined isn’t so unrealistic from what we have now and what can happen to our society. And how technology can truly take over our society. Like when we have our earbuds in and minding our own business we don’t pay attention to anything or anyone. That’s how people are in fahrenheit 451 because they are so consumed by their technology. They don’t care about anything else. So there is a possibility of technology taking over our society in how far advance we are getting like some of the technology in fahrenheit 451 isn’t so far off of some the the technology we have now.

Freshmen students should read this book because the appreciation towards having books will increase, it shows how and why people follow the crowd, and why censorship is important. With teens having the potential to expand their knowledge from reading it, and provide entertainment with many plot twists throughout the book.

Having a very dead society, the community of Fahrenheit 451 lacks knowledge. Without books, it has no potential for thinking or fun. As readers read through the book, they start to realize how much value is inside a book. As Montag quotes, “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house…” ( Bradbury 51 ) Not knowing specifically why a woman would stay in a burning house, filled with books, but Montag knows there is something very special in a book. As the appreciation towards books inflicts on readers, it can also show why and how people follow the crowd.

In Fahrenheit 451, people tend to follow the crowd a lot. With everyone in the community doing the same thing every single day, it is very bland and ordinary. As readers go deeper in the book, they start to see why people in the community follows the same procedures every single day. As Beatty quotes, “The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is where the Happiness Boys. the Dixie Due, you and I and the others. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.” ( 66 )

Beatty tells Montag that they get rid of the “unique/evil” people that are making the community unhappy. Though the community is unhappy, it is not happy because of the “unique/evil” people, but it is the fact the government that controls their life is. No is free in this community and does not have the power to get free. With the book explaining and having examples of why people follow the crowd, it also shows why censorship is important.

The community of Fahrenheit 451 has many examples of censorship. One, being the action of burning books and libraries.

Imagine living in a black and white world were nobody has no true color. A novel written by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 is series of complex characters such as the main character Montag as the protagonist and Captain Beatty as the antagonist. Montag lives in a world where books are prohibited, and firemen cause the fires not only that but, at night so the fire puts on a show for the world.

In addition to the concept of burning books this leads to the destruction of education and reading impacts personal relationships in the society of the novel. In Bradbury’s novel it shows many themes as to why censorship or the burning of books effects personal relationships within the society such as the abuse of technology, fear of knowledge, and the government.

Technology has evolved from many years ago to a flip phone to a phone with a touch screen. In Fahrenheit 451, they use bullets a device used like earbuds and parlor walls as huge flat screen tv’s that can interact with you. With these devices can practically control what you believe or manipulate what you see. For Example, Montag and his wife Mildred barely have a connection between them, why? Because the only family she has are the parlor walls, she communicates and, in a way, relates to them. As shown in this quote, “Will you turn the parlor off?” he asked “That’s my family” said Mildred (Bradbury 48-49). The conversation shows how blind Mildred is because of technology and the ‘family’ she has. Her relationship between Montag is a lie to her. Not only that she believes books are absurd and a waste of time leading to ignorance of education.

According to the novel books were banned for the satisfaction of the people but, it scares them. When Montag reads the poem to Mrs. Bowles stud up in rage telling Montag poems bring misery as a result to Mrs. Phelps began to cry. As quoted by Ray Bradbury, Mrs. Bowles stood up and glared at Montag. “You see? I knew it, that’s what I wanted to prove! I knew it would happen! I’ve always said, poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness; all that mush! Now I’ve had it proved to me. You’re nasty, Mr. Montag, you’re nasty!” (Bradbury 97) When looking at the quote you can see that Mrs. Bowles is simply struck by fear of what knowledge can simply do to one’s self. While knowledge is important so is the government.

Introduction: The Concept of Individualism in Dystopian Worlds

Individualism is defined as “a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control” (Google). There are two major forms of individualism that are prevalent throughout writings. The first form is individual vs. society, and it occurs when the individual must change his or her ideals in order to fight their government. The second is individual vs. self, which is an internal fight between good and evil. In Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman that starts fires instead of extinguishing them. Divergent is a story of Tris Prior, a teenage girl, that changes from her original faction, Abnegation, to become Dauntless. Both Tris and Montag experience both forms of individualism throughout their journey to freedom. Fahrenheit 451 and Divergent are dystopian novels in which the protagonists must become individuals to save their conforming societies.

Guy Montag’s Rebellion and Self-Discovery in ‘Fahrenheit 451’

Firstly, Guy Montag rebels against his society by reading books and thinking for himself. Montag is a fireman that starts fires in the homes of people that are breaking the law. In his society, reading anything that gives knowledge is illegal. In the beginning of the novel, Montag is dispatched to an elderly woman who had been caught with books. After burning the home down and killing the woman, Montag begins to question the ideals of his government. The society around Montag has conformed to the government and become technology droids. Guy Montag says, “Nobody listens any more. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense” (Bradbury 78). Montag struggles to express his feelings because the technology around him is slaving his wife and society. Technology has caused Montag’s society to conform to the government and its rules. According to Lauren Rohan, “The other path that follows in the vein of Fahrenheit 451 shows worlds where people have chosen apathy over activism and in turn have willingly given up their autonomy to those in authority. They chose stagnant and ignorant lives in exchange for supposed contentment.” Montag does not want to live a boring life like his wife Mildred, so he has to decide whether to read books or destroy them (8, 42). Montag meets with Faber, a previous professor, and they agree to work together. Faber gives Montag an earpiece so that they can communicate with each other. In the novel, Montag starts his separation from his society when his is eating with Mildred, Mrs. Phelps, and Mrs. Bowles. According to Kelcy Dolan, “Montag first breaches his puppet strings, making his first big individual leap when he brings out the book of poetry in front of Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles despite Faber’s warning” (11). Montag wants others to feel the effects of reading, but it ends up giving him an ultimatum. His boss, Beatty, tells Montag to come with him on a dispatch. Beatty drives Montag to his home and tells Montag to burn his home down along with his books. Montag burns his home down, but then Montag decides to burn Beatty to a crisp. Burning Beatty to death ultimately frees Montag from the world around him (Dolan 14). After leaving his burned home, Montag is on the run from the mechanical hound and the police. While Montag is fleeing, the newscaster is telling the people what is happening. The newscaster then asks all of the citizens to open their doors and look outside. According to Edward Eller, “Montag has a vision of the population acting in near perfect unison under the direction of a technological device- a truly frightening vision of humans turned into conforming automations”. Montag is able to escape from his society, and then he meets a group of book people. The book people have books memorized and show the importance of not conforming to the despotic government (3). Montag frees himself from his government with the help of Faber and books.

Tris’s Journey of Self-Identity in ‘Divergent’

Secondly, Tris rebels against her government by choosing her own way in her conforming government. In Tris’s government there are 5 factions: Amity, Abnegation Dauntless, Erudite, and Candor. Each faction focuses only on a single quality and the members of the faction must follow the rules. Tris’s home faction was Abnegation which focuses on selflessness. All teenagers are required to take an aptitude test that determines which faction is best for them. Tris takes the test and discovers that she is Divergent which means she belongs to more than one faction. According to Elena Sharma, “By testing as a Divergent, unable to be categorized into just one of the factions, Tris represents a threat to this stagnant society and as such, functions as an agent of change and progress as her identity develops “ (20). Divergence is punishable by death, and Tris has to decide what her new faction will be at the choosing ceremony. According to Jacob Anderson, “Factions limit individual power to gain collective peace, but that is the opposite of how the book phrases it:” Welcome to the Choosing Ceremony. Welcome to the day we honor the democratic philosophy of our ancestors, which tells us that every man has the right to choose his own way in this world’” (14). Against the wishes of her parents, Tris chooses Dauntless as her new faction. Tris choosing Dauntless was the first push into her separation from the world around her. During the Dauntless initiation, Tris must compete against others to remain in Dauntless; failing Dauntless would result in being factionless. Tris uses her abilities as a Divergent to pass Dauntless training. During this time, Erudite has been plotting to take control over all of the factions. The leader of Erudite, Jeanine, injects all of Dauntless with a serum that renders them controllable. Due to Tris’s Divergence, she can withstand the serum and Tris must decide what action to take. Tris is faced with an external threat of war and an internal threat of becoming factionless. She believes that the only way for her to truly break free from the other factions is to embrace her Divergence. Tris fights back against Jeanine and becomes factionless.

Montag’s Transformation through Interpersonal Connections

Thirdly, Montag becomes his own antithesis when he meets Clarisee and begins reading books. Montag first begins his process of self-individualism when he talks to Clarisee. Montag is walking home after a burn when he meets a teenage girl named Clarisee. Clarisee asks him questions that Montag cannot answer. Clarisee asks him questions regarding his career as a fireman and why he chose to become one. “Montag is so used to making vapid small talk that he takes no time to answer Clarisee’s decidedly difficult questions. His lack of thought during conversation demonstrates that he, like much of his society, does not think much about anything. They live life on autopilot” (Rohan 13). Montag is stunned by the simple yet hard to answer questions that Clarisee asked. Clarisee states, “‘You’re one of the few who put up with me. That’s why I think it’s so strange you’re a fireman, it just doesn’t seem right for you, somehow.” He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other “ (Bradbury 21). No one in Montag’s life had ever questioned why Montag was a fireman. After his conversation, Montag is left wondering about his true identity. His failure to answer simple questions about his identity strip the only identity he had (Dolan 7). As time goes on, Montag starts to question the ideals of his government but also his inner feelings. Montag begins to read books and he discovers his identity the more he reads. “Montag continually exists in a conflicting state of being both an individual, but also lacking the capability to understand his own individuality at the same time. Montag becomes his own antagonist at times, fighting against himself as he explores individualism within the text” (Dolan 1). Montag finally becomes his own individual self when Beatty orders him to burn down his home. At that moment, Montag realizes the only way for his life to completely change is by rebirth. “It is through the destruction though that Montag is cleansed of his old life, the old self he was by experiencing it one last time while simultaneously ridding himself of the space in which he has lines that existence […] Burning his own home is Montag’s method of accepting his own need to become entirely new” (Dolan 13). Like a phoenix, Montag finds his new identity through fire and rebirth.

Tris’s Evolution: Embracing Her Divergence and Identity

Lastly, Tris find her identity through Dauntless and her Divergence. Tris was in the faction Abnegation from her childhood until she was sixteen. In each faction, the citizens must always stick to their faction’s rules. Elena Sharma claims Tris’s first self-individual leap is during the Choosing Ceremony. Tris did not want to be like her parents, so she chose Dauntless to be free. Tris’s identity also gets shaped during the Dauntless initiation (33). During Dauntless initiation, the initiates are continuously cut to find the strongest. Tris uses her hard work and Divergence to help her pass all of the tests. “She asserts her new identity when she tells herself, “I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave” (Roth 41). No longer does Tris define herself by what she is not, such as not selfless or not good, but now she begins to build up her new identity with positive declarations such as this one” (Sharma 59). Tris truly discovers her new identity at the end of the novel. Realizing that she may become factionless, Tris is scared to embrace her Divergence. After being faced with war from Erudite, Tris realizes she has to be Divergent. Tris states, “I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent” (Roth 442). Tris is able to become her own individual by the Choosing Ceremony, Dauntless initiation, and her Divergence.

Conclusion: The Impact of Individualism in Resisting Conformity

In conclusion, both Tris and Montag undergo identity changes to rebel against their society and become an individual. Montag rebels against his society by killing Beatty and reading books. Tris also rebels against her society by picking Dauntless as her faction and using her Divergence. Montag find his own identity after he meets Clarisee and destroys all memory of his old life. Tris also finds her own identity after she survives the Dauntless initiation and then becomes fully Divergent. Both Tris and Montag rebelled against their society at the cost of their old life. Montag breaks the law and reads books, and Tris breaks the law and uses her Divergence. Also, Tris and Montag find themselves along their journey to rebellion. Montag looks within himself and realizes that reading books is more important than breaking the law. Tris chooses Dauntless instead of staying in Abnegation and embraces her Divergence. Fahrenheit 451 and Divergent are examples of individual versus self and individual versus society. Tris and Montag are similar because they both destroy their old lives to separate themselves from their totalitarian government. Fahrenheit 451 and Divergent show that the only way to individually change and rebel against conforming societies is personal sacrifice.

Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury in 1951, this novel is about a futuristic dystopian society. It’s about this society that doesn’t want the citizens to be thinking and be entertained doing other things. It’s also about firemen that instead of putting fires out, they start them by burning books. They burn them because in their society books aren’t allowed. Books bring misserry, sadness, just negative emotions. The main character Guy Montag, he starts out as a happy person who likes his job as a fireman and has a loving wife named Mildred, who at first overdosed on sleeping pills. At some point he meets a teenage girl named Clarisse, she’s Montags neighbor. She starts talking to Guy Montag, asking him questions like, if before firemen put fires out, instead of starting them. Montag said that wasn’t true and that houses have always been fireproof. Then she decided to ask if he was actually happy. That made him wonder if he is really happy or its just an illusion. Clarisse and Mildred, two of the main characters who are involved in Montag’s life and part of the dystopian society.

Mildred is just a normal citizen who respects the rules and follows them, “”Will you turn the parlor off?” Montag asked. “That’s my family.” Mildred replied. “ Will you turn it off for a sick man?” Montag said. “I’ll turn it down.” Mildred said. She went out of the room and did nothing to the parlor and came back, page 46.” “”… Happiness is important. Fun is everything, And yet I kept sitting there saying to myself, I’m nor happy, I’m not happy.” Montag said. “I am.” Mildred’s mouth beamed. “And proud of it.” “I’m going to do something,” said Montag. “I don’t even know what yet, but I’m going to do something big.” “I’m tired of listening to this junk,” said MIldred, turning from him to the announcer again, page 62.” This shows that Mildred is just how the society wants the people to be, to not think and believe they are really happy. While Clarisse, she’s rebellious, and she’s way different than a normal citizen, she’s a curious and observant person, “Of course,” Montag said, You’re our new neighbor, aren’t you?” “And you must be–” she raised her eyes from his professional symbols “–the fireman.” Her voice trailed off. “How oddly you say that.” Montag replied. “I’d–I’d have known it with my eyes shut,” she said, slowly, page 4.” Mildred is most of the time entertained with the parlor walls, or using her seashells to hear the broadcast, “She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away, page 16.” Parlor walls are Televisions, and seashells are earbuds. Clarisse enjoys going outside, likes to watch, talks to people, “I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going. Sometimes I even go to the Fun parks and ride jet cars when they race on the edge of town at midnight and the police don’t care as long as the’re insured, page 28.” She isn’t like others because she does the opposite of what a normal citizen do, also she isn’t addicted to the parlor walls, or neither to the seashells like Mildred and other citizens who spent their time on there and don’t worry about thinking because most of the time they are being entertained.

Clarisse and Mildred are similar by grabbing Montag’s attention toward both of them, at some point. “Montag shook his head. He looked at a blank wall. The girl’s face was there, really quite beautiful in memory: astonishing, in fact. She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of the night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, page 8,” referring to Clarisse. “”Mildred!” Her face was like snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow. There was only the singing of the thimble-wasps in her tamped-shut ears, and her eyes all glass, and breath going in and out, softly, faintly, in and out her nostrils, and her not caring whether it came or went, went or came, page 11.” That’s how Montag describes Clarisse and Mildred, which he was interested in both of them at some point in time. Both Mildred and Clarisse suffered in their dystopian society. Mildred didn’t have any emotions to express, was never happy even though she thinks she is.At the very first part of the novel Mildred overdosed on sleeping pills, she hasn’t been happy since the very start.Her life is empty, but she still believes she’s happy because she’s kept entertained with her parlor walls which she sees as her family. She’s a product toward their dystopian society. Clarisse fears of teenagers of her age, ““Sometimes I’m ancient. I’m afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks. I’m afraid of them and they don’t like me because I’m afraid,” page 30.” Clarisse got run over and died, “”No. The same girl. McClellan. McClellan. Run over by a car. Four days ago. I’m not sure. But I think she’s dead. The family moved out anyway. I don’t know. But I think she’s dead,” page 44.” Both Mildred and Clarisse got hurt by their dystopian society.

Ray Bradbury predicted the future with his novel Fahrenheit 451 in many ways. Seashells, parlor walls, how citizens are. If they’re like Mildred, model like follow the rules or Clarisse, more of a curious, observant, and free thinker. Our society is kind of both because respect should be shown and following the rules, or sometimes be like Clarisse and not be the same as others and be the outcast. How the society in Fahrenheit 451 is similar to ours is by the censoring of our personal beliefs or thoughts, nowadays people can get easily offended so the media has to censor things that make people unhappy, and in their society, they don’t let the citizens have books because they can make them feel unhappy.

With the average adult in the United States spending around 8.5 hours a day looking at screens, technology has come to surround everything in our society, from phones that connect all of us together to the nuclear missiles designed to protect from terrorism. As technology continues to advance into uncharted territory, many people fear that technology will outgrow ourselves and our society will mirror the society in Fahrenheit 451. In Fahrenheit 451, the society was consumed by technology and all individual ideas like books were destroyed. For example, Bradbury writes, “‘Will you turn the parlor off?’ he asked. ‘That’s my family.’” (Bradbury 48). Mildred has been so consumed by technology to the point where she considers TV characters “family” and is entirely dependent on entertainment. However, unlike Bradbury’s book, modern technology aids our society in many ways. While technology is often thought of as a detriment to an intellectual and conscientious society, especially with the current social media culture, the benefits that come from technological advancements far outweigh the negatives; medical technology has improved the quality of our lives, military technology has protected our nation from harm, and cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology has enhanced our overall productivity and efficiency.

Some might say that the current social media culture is directly causing a decrease in intellectual thought and world awareness. It’s a common opinion that the easy, skin-deep amusement and distraction that social media provides can change the way people think and process information. This change can negatively impact a person’s ability to comprehend information that has deeper and more complex material. A New York Times article states, “The bias may very well decrease the frequency of analytical reasoning by making it easy and commonplace for people to reach analytical response without engaging analytical processing” (Inc). As a result of technology providing information and knowledge at the tap of a screen, a person’s analytical ability and skill can be used to a lesser extent. Social media apps like Twitter and Reddit are the sole source of many people’s news and information. Without the use of critical thinking in obtaining the answer, it’s easy to jump to the conclusion that technology and the simple entertainment provided by social media can shrink a person’s analytical ability through the decay from lack of use and stimuli. Although many people think that social media decreases a person’s skill of critical and intellectual thinking, research shows that social media can improve a person’s intelligence and creativity. Monica Nickelsburg, an author for The Week, writes, “Research suggests social media can improve verbal, research, and critical-thinking skills. Young people spend far more time consuming new information, honing verbal concision, and interacting with a diverse audience than they have at any point in history.” (Nickelsburg). Refuting the counter-argument that social media makes people less intelligent and more simple-minded, Nickelsburg says that critical-thinking skills have increased with the rise of social media. Social media has greatly increased people’s time writing outside of the classroom; people spend hours every day on extracurricular writing like tweets, captions, emails, forums, and comments. Often thought of as “meaningless” activity online, this writing positively influences people’s critical-thinking skills. Even though the average American teenager spends more than 7 hours online every day (Rogers), teens today spend far more time consuming new information, improving verbal concision, and interacting with a diverse audience than they have at any point in history (Nickelsburg). Additionally, author Andrew Selepak for the University of Florida writes, “Social media provides a firsthand account of the biggest issues facing the world today from those directly impacted. As a result, increasing awareness of an issue is where social media can have the greatest impact” (Selepak). Since social media is repeatedly utilized as a powerful tool to protest and speak out, it serves as a means to an end by spreading awareness about important world issues. Social media has brought attention to causes like #LoveWins, supporting marriage equality, and #BlackLivesMatter, campaigning against systemic racism, when traditional media has failed. Additionally, many people use social media as a way of political protest and to raise money for charity. The #UmbrellaMovement was used to support the 2014 Hong Kong Protests and #Resist is used constantly as a way to show discontent towards President Trump. When the Ice Bucket Challenge went viral in 2014, over $220 million was raised worldwide to combat the disease ALS. Through the use of hashtags, people are able to reach new audiences across the globe in a single tweet. Evidently, people can bring positive social change by using social media as a means to raise awareness and promote solidarity for a movement. While many people say that social media culture corrupts individual thought and our conscientious society, evidence proves the opposite idea that social media increases people’s intelligence and collective awareness about world issues.

Firstly, medical technology has greatly improved our lives by providing us with the means to avoid preventable death and increase our quality of life. In an article about breakthroughs for type 1 diabetes, Laurie Toich writes, “We can now generate insulin-producing cells that look and act a lot like the pancreatic beta cells in our bodies. This is a critical step towards our goal of creating cells that could be transplanted into patients with diabetes” (Villa). Innovative medical technology has had invaluable benefits by helping people around the world live longer and healthier lives. Diabetes accounts for 12% of deaths in the United States and is the third leading cause of death (Toich). Instead of treatments like insulin injections that only treat the symptoms of the disease, growing new insulin-producing cells is a cure that fixes the root problem. The merger between technology and healthcare is responsible for saving countless lives from preventable death. Next, medical technology has improved the overall quality of our lives with the inventions like robotic prosthetics that aid and support people to live more comfortable lives. In an article detailing the advantages of prosthetics, the author writes, “One of the advantages of the robotic limb is that it will improve the lives of the people who would need one. Through the use of a robotic limb, people would be able to walk, grab and manipulate objects similarly how they would with their biological limb” (Okeowo). Robotic limbs aid people that have suffered from unfortunate injuries like war veterans and or even paraplegics. In the United States, there are 2 million people with amputations whose lives would be greatly improved through the use of prosthetics (Siek). This medical invention greatly improves the quality of disabled people’s lives by allowing them to do things like walk and become more independent in their daily lives. Robotic limbs can even allow people to live without the need for a caretaker or family member assisting their day to day tasks. Clearly, medical technology has priceless benefits that include saving lives and improving a person’s overall quality of life.

Additionally, military technology has shielded our nation from harm and attacks from other countries while also protecting the lives of soldiers better. In an article from the Clinton White House Archives, the author writes, “Science and technology help to counter special threats such as terrorism that cannot be met by conventional warfighting forces, and they underpin the intelligence capabilities necessary to assess the dangers our nation faces” (National Archives). The use of technology in our military has protected our nation from acts of terrorism. For example, our military is easily able to counter threats of a nuclear bomb from North Korea. Without the superior military technology that we have today, we would stand susceptible and vulnerable to attacks from rival nations. New military technology is what enables the military to serve its purpose of protecting the nation’s citizens and territory from any threat. Equally important, military technology has improved the survival rate of soldiers. Dr. Gareth Evans comments, “Wounded soldiers today have the best survival rates in the history of warfare, with around 92% of those injured in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan returning alive. In Vietnam, it was just 75% and in other conflicts the statistics have been lower still, but, the chances of an injured warrior making it home have undoubtedly improved” (Evans). The benefits of recent military technology are apparent in the lives it has saved in Iraq and Afghanistan. New military technology like faster transportation to a trauma hospital and better battlefield tools has greatly improved the chances of an injured soldier returning home. Without this technology, many soldiers would not be able to make it home to their families. Evidently, military technology has improved our society as a whole by improving our capability to protect our nation and save the lives of soldiers.

Finally, cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology has enhanced our productivity and efficiency by helping people perform better at their jobs. Simran Arora asserts, “Artificial intelligence can benefit the economy by helping the evolution of work. Robots and AI will help people perform their tasks better, not take their jobs” (Arora). Economies, business, and industries all benefit from the use of artificial intelligence because the AI will help employees perform their tasks better, improving the company as a whole. The reduction of human error can save millions of dollars for a company. Artificial intelligence that can perform complex tasks, even ones that require human intelligence, will help humans have enhanced capabilities. Since the most important thing to a business is money, artificial intelligence will benefit by greatly helping increase profits. Likewise, artificial intelligence technology has also improved our productivity and efficiency by significantly expanding human creativity and ingenuity by handling tedious tasks. Also according to Arora, “AI enhances information throughput and efficiency, helping people create new opportunities. AI will handle all mundane tasks, such as data entry and answering emails” (Arora). With the time saved by artificial intelligence performing mundane tasks for us, people have the time to focus on important issues that can better society as a whole. For example, Google Home and Amazon’s Alexa save our time and energy by taking care of our schedules, telling us the time and weather, giving us news summaries, and overall providing a shortcut for our lives. Since AI is essentially a machine, it can work all day and provide the same level of performance each time. Artificial intelligence also is present in our cars; auto-drive and auto-park in advanced cars like Teslas are becoming more commonly used. Through the automation of mindless labor, society can utilize time to target core issues that AI cannot accomplish. The usefulness of technology is also apparent in Fahrenheit 451 when Faber says, “If you put it in your ear, Montag, I can sit comfortably home, arming my frightened bones, and hear and analyze the firemen’s world, without danger” (Bradbury 90). Even though Fahrenheit 451 advocates against the misuse of technology, when Faber gives Montag the green bullet to communicate with him secretly, the convenience and helpfulness of technology is seen. Though it is commonly used as a tool for the government in the book, technology can also be used for the rebellion. Overall, the advancement of artificial intelligence technology only brings benefits to our society like increased efficiency at work and better productivity without the need to perform pointless tasks that the AI can handle.

Even though some say that technology impairs our intellectual and attentive society, especially in the area of social media, the benefits that come from technological advancements far outweigh the negatives. Medical technology has improved our quality of life, military technology has protected our nation from danger, and artificial intelligence technology has increased our overall efficiency. While many people think technology is dangerous, technology is rather a means to an end, not the cause of the problem. Likewise, in Fahrenheit 451, Captain Beatty says, “No wonder books stopped selling. But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic books survive” (Bradbury 57). In the book, technology is not the reason why their society declined; the people chose to become ignorant and simple-minded. While technology can be used as a method to the stagnation of our intellectual capacity, it can also be used to better society. However, in our society, the positive advancements of modern technology has had more beneficial effects overall than detriments. Clearly, technology has many important benefits that improve our society as a whole and the progress of our innovation should not be stopped out of fear and unease towards change.

Author Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois, to Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, a worker for power and telephone utilities, and Ester Moberg Bradbury, a Swedish immigrant. Bradbury enjoyed a well childhood in Waukegan, which he later incorporated into several semi-autobiographical novels and short stories. As a child, he was fascinated with magicians, and was a faithful reader of adventure and fiction. Bradbury could not afford to go to college, so he went to the local library instead. ‘Libraries raised me,’ he later quoted. ‘I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression, and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.’ Bradbury wrote well into his 80s, talking for three hours at a time to one of his daughters, who would put his words to the page. Though halting most of his public appearances, he granted several interviews in his later years and helped raise funds for his nearby library.

Albert Einstein once said, ‘It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.’ Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” a futuristic fiction written in 1953, is a book about the future of humanity where people have restricted freedom. It is a society where order and peace are present at the cost of individual rights. Back then, before all these new technological advancements there was very little technology controlling humanity. Now, phones are becoming more and more mainstreamed around the world. Considering this, what does our future hold?

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, depicts a world where technology goes beyond its limits. Many times throughout the book, Bradbury proposes the idea of carelessness of mass culture. This comes as a potential warning to societies considering one day that could be the unfortunate reality. Bradbury shows that the definition of happiness changes along with interest and care. Humanity no longer seems to care about anything. The definition of knowledge is also altered. They no longer read books. This novel was written when television was first released, and understanding how technology is molding society today, this book is a warning novel. Their happiness, ability to think and mindset is all changed due to technology. Fahrenheit 451 is set in the 24th century. If we look at our society today, we can easily find many similarities. Reality TV shows, lacking connection with real people and nature, sitting in front of screens, always looking for new facts, not stopping to think, less and less reading physical books. We can say that the future has already come upon us.

The main character, Guy Montag, a fireman whose job is to burn houses that contain books instead of normally putting out fires, realizes that people live shallow lives and is willing to change that. It is almost impossible to find people who understand him and it is also the case with his wife who spends most of her time watching television on the walls or listening to the radio.

After leaving work one day, Montag meets Clarisse, a teenage girl who has an eye for nature and asks him if he is happy. At home, he finds that his wife, Mildred, has swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills in a suicide attempt. After he calls for help, two men arrive and revive her. The next morning, Mildred acts as though nothing happened and watches as usual the shows on the television screens that make up three of the walls. Even though Montag and Mildred have been married for years, Montag realizes, after the incident, that he doesn’t really know much about his wife at all nor is he actually in love with her. In contrast to Mildred, Bradbury portrays a growing attraction between Montag and Clarisse. Clarisse is represented to be spontaneous and curious whereas Montag is insincere and close minded. Clarisse has no worries or daily priorities: Montag is a follower of habit. Clarisse speaks to him about the beauties of life, the man in the moon, the morning dew, and the enjoyment she receives from smelling and looking at certain things. Montag, however, has never bothered himself with such ‘insignificant’ matters. Then, Montag starts to develop a deep sense of dissatisfaction with his life and profession. Some weeks later Clarisse suddenly stops meeting him, and Montag is depressed and concerned.

The firemen are then called to a book hoarder’s house. The old woman in the house refuses to give up her books so the firemen break in and begin to tear the house apart. In the house, Montag steals a copy of the woman’s Bible. The old woman then shocks the firemen by setting herself as well as her books on fire. A few days later, he hears that Clarisse has been killed by a speeding car. Montag’s discontent with his life increases more and more, and he searches for a paradise in books that he has stolen from his own fires and hidden inside an air-conditioning vent.

One day, Montag fails to show up for work, his fire chief, Beatty, decides to visit his home. Beatty tells Mildred that it’s normal for a fireman to go through a curiosity phase of what books have to offer. Then Beatty explains why books came to be banned in the first place. Beatty tells Montag to take twenty-four hours or so to see if his books contain anything useful and then turn them in for incineration.

In a hurry to read the books, he meets a retired English professor by the name of Faber. Faber agrees to help Montag with reading his books, and they came up with a dangerous scheme to change the idea of books. Faber will find a printer and begin producing books, and Montag will place books in the homes of firemen to make profession unworthy and to destroy the machinery of censorship. Faber gives him a radio earpiece called the green bullet so that he can hear what Montag hears and talk to him.

Montag goes to the fire station and hands over one of his books to Beatty. Beatty confuses Montag by bombarding him with contradictory quotations from books. Beatty does this to show that literature is unhealthy and too complex, and that it deserves to be burned. Suddenly, the alarm sounds, and they rush off to answer the call, only to find that the alarm is at Montag’s own house. Mildred gets into a cab with her suitcase, and Montag realizes that his own wife has betrayed him.

Beatty forces Montag to burn the house himself; when he is done, Beatty places him under arrest and instagates Montag causing him to turn the flamethrower on his boss and burns him completely. The Mechanical Hound, a machine that Beatty has set to attack Montag, injects Montag’s leg with a large dose of anesthetic. Montag destroyed the hound with his flamethrower; then he walks off the numbness in his leg and escapes with books that were hidden in his backyard.

Montag goes to Faber’s house, where he learns that a new Hound has been put on his trail. Faber tells Montag that he is leaving for St. Louis to see a retired printer who may be able to help them. Montag takes some of Faber’s old clothes and heads down to the river. Montag changes into Faber’s clothes to disguise his scent. He drifts downstream into the country and follows along a set of old railroad tracks until he finds a group of intellectuals called the Book People. The Book People are led by a man named Granger. They are a part of a huge network of book lovers who have memorized many great works of literature and philosophy. They hope that they may be of some help to mankind in the afterworks of the war that has just been declared. Montag’s role is to memorize the Book of Ecclesiastes. Hostile jets then begin to appear in the sky and completely destroy the city with missiles. Montag and his new group move on to search for survivors and rebuild a new society.

Montag is first presented as a normal citizen of a world where books are treated as morbid. The famous opening line of the novel, “It was a pleasure to burn,” is written from Montag’s view. He experiences a sudden downfall, thinking that he is splitting into two people. This experience of splitting comes to defi Montag. Until the end of the story, Montag indulges in the idea that he is not responsible for his own dangerous acts. It is not until the end of the novel, when Montag attacks Beatty, that he finally accepts his active role in his own life. The reader can understand Montag’s mission, but the steps he takes toward his goal often seem misguided. Faced with the complexities of books for the first time, he is often confused. At times he is not even aware of why he does things, and that his hands are acting on their own.

The year 2020 is off to a controversial start. News reports of devastating disasters, death, and other disturbing events are arising, including bushfires in Australia, the growing dread of World War III, and the sudden outbreak of the Coronavirus in China. And all within the first month.

Lurking beneath these unfortunate circumstances is anxiety and with it, depression. With the introduction of social media, anxiety has skyrocketed in the next generation: teenagers. Teenagers highly value their outward appearance and what others perceive of them. One wrong comment can send them spiraling into depression. Their habits change abruptly, and it is no surprise that recklessness stems from depression. Depression leaves its victims hopeless and desperately searching for an escape. To some, that escape may be drugs or alcohol. The leading cause of human mortality is car accidents, and most occur because of substance abuse. Reckless actions of a teenager can cost their lives, and this never-ending cycle raises human mortality rates higher each year. Humanity is at a dark time, and it is perplexing to see that New York Times bestselling author, Ray Bradbury, warns us about our future with a similar scenario in his novel Fahrenheit 451.

Published on October 19, 1953, Fahrenheit 451 may have been the book that peaked Ray Bradbury’s writing career, catching the attention of lovers of dystopian literature. Kerosene and smoke dominate the futuristic society in North America; all books are brutally set aflame – an efficient method of eradicating knowledge. Without literature, the citizens resort to technology for entertainment, which ultimately becomes their bane. Some of the inventions humanity has created include wall-length plasma television screens called “parlors,” life-like mechanical hounds armed with deadly anesthetic, and Bluetooth earphone “Seashells.” Through Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury incorporates censorship in a technologically-advanced, fictional world to inform modern readers about the rising levels of depression and the resultant of irresponsibility, which can be attributed to our own electronic devices.

Bradbury shines a spotlight on the overwhelming amount of technology, revealing its true form: emptiness. The famous opening line, “It was a pleasure to burn” is narrated by the protagonist Guy Montag, who is a fireman himself. Montag is married to Mildred, an empty husk of a woman deeply addicted to the dull noise of technology, first introduced “uncovered and cold…in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk… coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind” (16). Tied down by entertainment through technology, Mildred is likened to a corpse with her blank features and “Seashells,” which are Bluetooth earphones connected to endless entertainment. Bradbury’s “seashells” are similar to modern-day “AirPods,” which is quite fascinating, since Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 in 1953. Modern readers can see that our society is almost identical to the technology in Fahrenheit 451. Mildred is also addicted to her parlor, a wall-to-wall digital installation where she can “roleplay” with characters of a scripted story that she refers to as her “family.” This is linked to how teenagers in the twenty-first century are constantly glued to their electronic devices – whether they are listening to hit songs on Spotify or interacting with role-play apps that offer exclusive customizable features. With technology improving constantly, the internet becomes more advanced after each passing day. A variety of entertainment is available, allowing people to pick and choose based on their tastes. Modern teenagers, with their worries about their outside appearance and their impressions on others, are looped into social media as a method of easing their worries. Ironically, by using the internet, teenagers are sucked into the opposite, causing depression and anxiety.

Some people would expect one to be happy with the entire internet at their fingertips, ready to search up talk shows and podcasts, but it is proven wrong in the fictional community of Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury provides both explicit and subtle references to suicide, as seen with Mildred’s attempted suicide. Mildred is known to take a deadly amount of sleeping tablets, often caused by her forgetfulness. Her face, as described by Bradbury, is “ like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain” (17). Mildred’s pale complexion, along with the empty pill bottle, warns Montag of her deathly state and is brought medical attention. She later has no recollection of the event, denying that she ever took the tablets, and proceeds to talk about her parlor “family.” While she was passed out, two men come to “fix her up,” and one tells Montag, “We get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago” (19). To readers, it is frightening for “these cases” to be a frequent occurrence in this technology-driven society. The fact that an individual would unconsciously forget how many pills they have swallowed to the point where they were in critical condition is rather daunting. Perhaps this technological utopia may not be as perfect as the futuristic government though since the inhabitants are destroying themselves. Every year, the number of deaths caused by drug overdoses in our modern society increases, whether it be on accident or attempted suicide. It is normal for a modern teenager to have at least one friend who has attempted suicide through commercial drugs, presenting a bleak future for the next generation.

Fahrenheit 451 demonstrates the overexposure of technology to teenagers which, without proper adult supervision, renders them irresponsible and reckless, causing high rates of teen mortality. One of the supporting characters in the novel is seventeen-year-old Clarisse McClellan, a strange girl with out-of-the-ordinary habits (walking on the roadside and admiring nature). Students in Fahrenheit 451 are taught with technology. Teachers are not even present, as Clarisse explains that students receive “an hour of TV class… transcription history…they just run the answers at you….and us sitting there for four more hours of film teacher” (33). Technology, starting at a young age, dominates teenagers’ lives, and teachers, who are part of teenage upbringing, are absent and unable to guide their students into proper citizens. With educational documentaries and video tutorials, modern education can be easily accessed through the internet, and the need for teachers is slowly disintegrating. However, without teachers, the values learned through school the presence of a teacher are absent. Adult instructors are at school interacting with children for half a day, which may be more than students’ interactions with their parents. Teachers are critical for the growth and development of a model citizen, and technology is slowly taking over. After school, these teenagers “head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes…or wreck cars,” enjoying the thrill of a near-death experience (33). Unfortunately, most of these “thrill” rides end up killing them, as Clarisse worries over her peers, saying “‘I’m afraid of children my own age. They kill each other… Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks’” (34). Without proper guidance and the values learned through adult instructors, children are not taught morals and become a danger to themselves. The mortality rate of modern teenagers has skyrocketed as well, thanks to vehicle accidents (mainly caused by substance abuse). Teenagers can obtain a driver’s license at the age of sixteen while they are still immature and inexperienced, which produces recklessness on the road. Cars, our advanced technology, allow teenagers and adults to abuse its function, and become the culprit of many deaths every day.

Fahrenheit 451 provides a significant amount of insight into our fast-paced society. With technology advancing more quickly than ever before, will our interest in reading drop significantly? Of course, there is also the underlying fear of becoming like the mindless people in Fahrenheit 451, where technology becomes the only source of entertainment. Because of the endless hours of entertainment without books, individuals were often depressed and to some, suicidal. Nowadays, teenagers find themselves under the influence of certain substances, due to pressure from peers or admiration from social media stars. Vape pens, made popular by social media, are commonly used amongst teenagers during school, and it is concerning to see that more and more teenagers are dying from overdose each year. Books too are disappearing faster every day and losing their readers’ interests. Even now, libraries are being put out of commission after the introduction of ebooks and audiobooks, which people believe to be more leisurely than carrying a hard copy. If physical copies of books are being disregarded, how long will it be until literature as a whole becomes “obsolete” to us? Books are now chasing after the shadow of technology, trying to win a losing race towards the unknown future. But shadows grow long as time passes. So how long will it be until books are completely disregarded in our minds? Who knows if, in the future, Fahrenheit 451’s fictional society becomes our reality?

Authors often use literary devices to convey their themes and express their ideas. Fahrenheit 451 is a complex story written by Ray Bradbury that takes a lot of thought to process and break down. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury uses comparison and symbolism to convey how an authoritarian society emerges from a lack of care for knowledge. Information in Fahrenheit 451 is highly controlled and any sort of knowledge is banned in favor of superficial entertainment. Because of this, the people of society have no awareness of the history and current events, like the war that is currently ongoing.

In Fahrenheit 451, society is so caught up in themselves and their so-called ‘happiness’ they are unwilling to educate each other. If society wasn’t so ignorant about educating themselves, “maybe books can get [them] half out the cave” (Bradbury 70). Books are so powerful in enlightening readers and helping them develop wisdom, yet society is willing to give books up for technology that fills them up with nothing but superficial happiness. Fahrenheit 451 isn’t the first form of text that has revealed the ugly nature of ignorance. In The Allegory of The Cave by Plato, Plato addresses the effect of education and knowledge and the lack of it on society. In this narrative, three prisoners have been incarcerated in a cave since birth. Behind them is a fire and people walk along the walkway carrying different things on their heads like plants or animals. The shadows of the objects would reflect on the wall and the prisoners would believe that the phantoms were ‘real’. One of the prisoners escapes and leaves the cave. He discovers the world outside the cave and realizes that his former belief of ‘reality’ was incorrect. More importantly, the escaped prisoner discovers the sun. When he returns to the cave to tell the others about his discovery, they do not believe him because they think that the outside world had made him insane and threaten to kill him if he sets them free. Connecting this to Fahrenheit 451, the story of the escaped prisoner mirrors Montag, who seeks knowledge outside of the society’s superficial ideas and voyaged an intellectual journey to seek truth and wisdom. The escaped prisoner discoveres the sun, which parallels the books in Fahrenheit 451. When the escaped prisoner returns to the cave, the rest of the prisoners refused to believe him and threaten to kill him, just like how Mildred reacted when Montag reveals to her of the truth. She lives in complete darkness and only believes what is reflected to her off her television wall, exactly like how the prisoners only believe the shadows on the wall.

Authors often use symbolism to create a deeper meaning in their story. In Fahrenheit 451, fire symbolizes two completely different things. Fire is a dual element that symbolizes both destruction and creation. In the beginning of the narrative, fire was often associated with burning and destruction. According to Montag then, he believed that books were “a pleasure to burn” (Bradbury 1). The way fire is used in this section displays how the firemen, including Montag, felt about burning books. Montag felt patriotic for destroying material that society considered provocative. He even stated that he enjoyed seeing things “blackened and changed” (Bradbury 1). The phrase “blackened and changed” symbolizes darkness and destruction, and Montag, like the rest of society, wanted books to go extinct. Society is so ignorant of true education and wisdom, which is why they have to satisfy themselves with fake and superficial happiness. It’s ironic how much firemen have changed throughout the course of history as Clarisse heard once that “a long time ago, houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames” (Bradbury 6). The purpose of firemen got twisted into destruction over time since they used to symbolize saviors from flames, which humanity viewed as an enemy. As time passes, the purpose of fire changed and is viewed as a way for society to save themselves from the ‘threats’ in literature. Because of this, the purpose of firemen changed as well. Firemen no longer represent safety, but more as danger and demolition. If there is an issue, the society’s best solution is to get rid of it, just like how Beatty believes that society should “forget them [books]. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean” (Bradbury 57). Fire, as we know, is used as a solution for destroying problems and avoiding reality. In the novel, firemen believe that books are a threat, but instead of proving why books are so provocative, they chose to burn and destroy it because they don’t care enough about it to find reasons as to why it’s so negative. It displays how lazy and ignorant society is. Society would rather avoid the issues that come their way instead of seeking a solution.

Fire is not only associated with destruction, but also with creation. After Montag escaped, fire was associated with warmth. To Montag, fire was no longer “burning, it was warming.’ (Bradbury 139). Because Montag was willing to educate himself and read, he was able to feel real happiness and authentuality. When he meets Granger, the fire that was once so destructive is now warming. Warmth is associated with affection and kindness. Bradbury does this to compare how the novel shifted its view on fire from a negative connotation to a positive connotation. The society mishandled fire by using it to destroy, compared to Granger and Montag, who views fire as a form of warmth and affection. If society didn’t use fire as a solution for their problems, maybe they would see the true beauty and meaning behind it.

In 1953, Ray Bradbury, composed Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury was a recognized American creator that composed numerous books from an assortment of types like dream, sci-fi, and ghastliness. His tale, Fahrenheit 451 is an idealistic and tragic fiction book. In rundown, the novel was about a fire fighter named Guy Montag, who consumes books. In his conviction, fire fighters don’t extinguish fires, they start them. He feels that books don’t have a reason on the planet that he lives since individuals never really read them. Rather, they drive noisy quick vehicles, watch a wealth of television, and tune in to heaps of music. Montag fundamentally feels that he is carrying on with a vacant, negligible life, until he experienced Clarisse McClellan who delighted in the things he had been wishing all the individuals around him liked nature and her friends. She was loaded up with a lot of enthusiasm and consistently had unordinary inquiries for him that started his creative mind. Subsequent to meeting Clarisse, Montag’s life started a declining winding beginning first with a suicide endeavor from his significant other.

Followed by a caution to an older woman’s home, where she had a shrouded reserve of old writing books that he was going to consume. Amazingly, the older lady decided to be scorched bursting at the seams with her books. To end his descending winding of a real existence, he becomes mindful that Clarisse was hit by a vehicle and died. In the end, most books were scorched and scholars during this time started composing books that looked increasingly more comparable as writers were doing whatever it takes not to affront anybody. Montag missed a night of work, so his boss went to mind him. While there, he found the pile of books that Montag had put away in his AC vent, to spare them from the flares. He was told to take twenty-four hours off to peruse the books and check whether he discovered anything fascinating. He was overpowered by the errand, so he searched for comfort in his significant other, whom favored a night of TV.

Montag recalled a resigned teacher he experienced at a recreation center once, named Faber who he figured would be some utilization to him. Faber was in fact help to him, more than he planned him to be. The pair chose to print duplicates of all the writing that Montag had not yet copied and started setting them in the homes of fire fighters to crush oversight and dishonor their activity. Montag first set the writing in the hands of his better half’s two acceptable companions, and they were by all accounts extremely upset by it, considering they documented objections on him. Soon after, an alert sounded and this time it was a call to Montag’s home. He had before long discovered that his significant other, Mildred had double-crossed him. Montag was constrained by Beatty, his boss to torch his own home and afterward she captured him. The two started battling with flamethrowers and Mechanical Hound machines that infuse huge dosages of sedative into Montag’s leg, in spite of the fact that he figured out how to escape from her so he could plant a few books he had delved up from his lawn into another fire fighter’s home, and bring in an alert from a payphone. In conclusion, Montag comes back to Faber’s home. He was educated then that another dog was scanning for him, so he gave Faber directions on the most proficient method to dispose of his aroma so the dog couldn’t smell him at the home. Faber gave Montag some garments to camouflage his aroma as he headed down a stream to get away from the town. A war was announced and the entire town was exploded by foe planes and Montag and the scholarly book individuals he met downstream chase for survivors bearing in mind the end goal to modify another human progress, with ideally another humankind.

With composing such an innovative fiction, Bradbury depicted various subjects. Probably the most clear ones from the novel are restriction, information against numbness, innovation, and disappointment. The creator likewise utilized other abstract strategies like imagery. For example, blood. Blood symbolized human’s curbed spirits right now. In the novel, Bradbury frequently related blood to his fundamental character, Montag’s musings and thoughts. He referenced that he could feel them circling and coursing through his circulation system. Blood is additionally symbolized in Fahrenheit 451 when Mildred’s old harmed blood was expelled by the Electric-Eyed Snake machine and was supplanted with new regulated blood. The machine defiled her old sentiments of wretchedness, hallucination, and self-loathing, however the blood substitution couldn’t spare her spirit, for it didn’t change.

Bradbury never uncovered to his crowd the purpose for why books were prohibited in any case. In spite of the fact that, he provided various components that could lead the peruser to accept the reasons why books were prohibited. These variables could be broken into two gatherings; one identified with t a challenge in amusement with radio and TV as of now available, and the other being jealous emotions. Bradbury had a go at communicating that a general public with boisterous music, quick vehicles, and different types of amusement, similar to TV, that no one truly has the opportunity to back off and center around the profundities of accounts and different types of writing. He additionally had the possibility that the costs of distributing books would be overpowering for the superfluous need. Likewise, individuals during this time were substantial on perusing consolidated books rather than genuine duplicates. With respect to the subsequent factor, individuals held threatening vibe in their souls as they felt that some were second rate since they had perused more than most. A great deal of what Bradbury accepted restriction was the possibility of dismissal to gatherings, fundamentally placing anything over another. In Fahrenheit 451, not even once did Bradbury notice any kind of isolation or contrasts in individuals by their race or riches. He just gave the occupations of Montag, Beatty, and the other fire fighters since he needed to communicate to his perusers the noteworthiness of their activity, which was answering to homes when cautions sounded, to set them ablaze in light of the fact that they were putting away books. The main individuals that Bradbury assembled were the pooch sweethearts from the feline darlings, and still, after all that, he didn’t explicitly characterize them; he left the perusers to suggest the significance behind it, and the contrasts between the two.

Information against obliviousness is another subject taken from Bradbury’s tale. The three primary characters Montag, Faber, and Beatty were doing combating between the two a gigantic sum all through the storyline. The activity of the fire fighters was to riddance of information, by consuming the books, which held incredible profundity and power, and advancing numbness, all the outside stimulations like new advancements. Another purpose behind consuming the information was to keep everybody the equivalent and advance uniformity and resemblance. All through the story, Montag invested a lot of energy scrutinizing the numbness, as he had faith in spreading information through books. He met Faber, who such as himself, needed to spread information, which is the reason he consoled Montag about his choices to address every other person’s convictions and lose his interests and questions in his own.

Bradbury referenced a great deal about TV, radio, and autos, which immediately uncovered his subject of innovation. He has the possibility that mechanical progressions are ruinous, just as, a huge purpose for the decline of perusing. In the story, Bradbury talks about that in his future TVs would be made so monstrous in size that they could cover entire dividers and inevitably, three-dimensional diversion spaces, which he alluded to as ‘parlors’. All the new progressions in innovation were more vivid than old soft cover books were according to individuals right now. This was commonly thought since network shows were made in the most straightforward structure, for unadulterated amusement. While, books took more time to peruse, they must be dismembered to be comprehended, and they were not as eye satisfying. Montag frequently remarked on the absence of sympathy and feeling that his neighbors, as Mildred had for their addictions to the innovation.

The last perceived topic is disappointment. This subject falls inseparably with different topics of innovation and oversight. In the general public that Bradbury was attempting to uncover, it emerged in the present time of mechanical development, which prompted the potential prohibiting of all writing. Many accepted that on the off chance that individuals stayed engaged, at that point they would consistently be at a tranquil perspective, however they neglected to understand that they amusement they have would inevitably not engage them any longer and they would be disappointed as individuals were in the past before innovation progressed.