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Fahrenheit 451 And The Murderer Analysis

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Fahrenheit 451 and The Murderer In the novel Fahrenheit 451 and in the short story The Murderer by Ray Bradbury the author deals with the main idea of negative effect of technology overtaking people. This idea is worth investigation because the world that people live in today is surrounded by so much technology such as cameras everywhere watching people that it might lead to the same future that was described by Ray Bradbury. Another example is that Big Data is used to control people’s lives by finding and using information from people’s profiles in social networks. The author wants to prove the negative effects of technology on people’s daily lives. He explores the amount of control technology puts people under, lack of emotions and feelings caused by technology and sounds that are examples of constant pressure on people due to the technology around them. Technology has a way of putting people under control as seen in both worlds presented by Ray Bradbury. In Fahrenheit 451 technology is used to prevent crimes and to provide safety by having people under control. The use of technology helps the government to control and manipulate people. Many people fear the punishments the government has for those people who do not obey the rules. “Police suggest the entire population in the Elm Terrace are do as follows: Everyone in every house in every street open the front door...” (Fahrenheit 451, 138). Police ordered the citizens to open the windows and continue to follow their commands without questioning. People do as they were ordered because everyone was watched. People do not want to be involved in any kind of trouble because they know that it might lead to terrible outcomes. “We’ve a record on her family. We’ve watched them carefully” (60). Every person in the city has a personal record that has all the information about them. People know that they are surrounded by technology but they do not see any reasons why it is so bad. Having all information in the records makes people be scared of being different and not to obey. Those records keep people away from doing terrible things and provide safety in the city. The government uses technology to make sure that their citizens are safe but easy to control. On the

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