Is It Real?

The creation of the nuclear bomb from technology has created a dead environment where life is no longer present. Humans may have fallen under the triumph of the powerful nucleic bomb, but technology has not. Ray Bradbury portrays symbolism in the story through objects such as the robotic house, tiny mice, and the death of the dog. The empty house can be another way of representing humankind. The daily lives of people are kept constantly busy, with school, work, and activities, that this routine has become robot-like.

“In the last 50 years, up to 100,000 Americans lost their lives due to inactivity leading to some sort of conditional disease such as heart disease [including the laziness within people of society]” (Wise 12). So many people have died from becoming lazy, doing nothing but go on their phones, devices, rather than doing everyday things. Technology has changed the way society approaches life, always depending on it rather than themselves and others. The society today consists of nothing but TV screens, telephone, smartphones, iPads, and items the 19th century would consider a dream to lay hands on. A book written by Bradbury presents lack of effort people put into their lives and society; Bradbury predicts how the future will become later on in the society. Becoming more similar to the laziness and ignorance in the novel, Fahrenheit 451, the society today struggles the society today struggles with dependency on technology which results to lack of social interactions with one another and failure in becoming literate with books.

Our modern day society and its trends are represented by the behavior of Montag’s society. Although it was written in the 1950s, there are distinct characteristics of the society and its citizens which have a connection to our society today. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, he accurately described the characteristics of our society and the potential dangers of one’s ignorance. Montag’s society consists of citizens who repeatedly oppress themselves by refusing to understand the value of knowledge. Bradbury is warning us to remember the important matters, and set aside the insignificant possessions. Fahrenheit 451 accurately predicted the modern day trends of the constant abuse of technology, the significant impact that technology has on unsteady

Two cultural aspects in this novel are technology and a repetitive lifestyle. Technology plays a big part in this book because it shows what our society could turn into. When a society gets to connected with technology, they stop connecting and interacting with other humans. People in this book are always wanting more and more technology: “How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in?” (Bradbury 18). People in this culture are so dependent on technology they want every wall in there house covered in TV’s so they never have to go a minute without it. This affects their community enormously because instead of human interaction, they spend there whole life looking at a screen. In addition to technology, a repetitive lifestyle is another cultural aspect. A common person in this town has the same dull schedule everyday. They never have a new event in their life to look forward to the next day because all their days are spent the exact same. This community gets so bored of their lives that some of them think they do not have a purpose in life. This boring lifestyle leads to many suicides: “We get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had the special machines built” (Bradbury 13). Characters in this novel do not value human existence and are missing happiness. This causes many issues because they stop thinking and stop having feelings. This makes them seem more like robots and less like living humans.

Have you ever wondered how how much our life have changed since technology modernized? Technology has advanced so much that it is present everywhere in our lives and there is almost no place on the globe where this important trend of the last two centuries has not entered. Technology has taken control of the world. This situation leads to the decline of the society, including human’s ability to think. The book “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury provides the interaction of the protagonist, Guy Montag, in a particular way with the technology. Guy Montag is a fireman whose job is to to burn books. Fahrenheit 451 presents a world where, under the motto, “...the books says nothing” (Bradbury 51-63), people start burning them and bookless happiness is illustrated by the empty streets of the city, people could not detach for a moment from the screens that give the images of a perfect world. The science fiction film “Wall-E” (2008) is the story of the last robot on Earth, whose job is to clean up the trash left by hymans. Meanwhile, the planet had to leave the planet. As a consequence, the robots take the control of it. So, technology changes the ways in which people interact with each other that does not move humanity forward.

In Ray Bradbury’s, Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag, the protagonist in the book, lives in a period of time where television is imperative while literature is on the verge of eradicating. Bradbury portrays a society where entertainment is not only a distraction, but it becomes a dominant aspect in the way individuals function in society. Furthermore, Montag’s ideal world is a world that sees a concept in books rather than television. We live in a world full of advanced technology, however there are drawbacks in the midst of the benefits. Fahrenheit 451 is an example that depicts the disadvantages that comes with the overuse of technology.

As time goes on our technology is advancing and slowly starting to control how humans are acting and taking over jobs, human interactions, and how people use their time. In the novel readers see how Bradbury uses technology to show how it takes over people and how they think or feel about themselves and others. Ebooks, social media networks, automatic cleaning tools, and robots are just a few items that have been created to make life a lot simpler and less work for humans. Today in society people choose not to use critical thinking but instead are using technology to replace what they're supposed to do for themselves. People are using technology to replace books and everything else they're doing.

Yet whereas we are never left alone by our technology, we are increasingly lonely, alienated from our deepest selves. For we have lost touch with our own feelings, being educated to ignore them in order to function in a technological world. Like Bergman's "intellectual illiterates," we are so uneducated about our inner feelings that we only learn to talk about them when we "break down," and have to be repaired by the analyst, at the Group, or in the asylum. For, we learn, our feelings distort our "objective" perceptions, and thus prevent us from functioning like our machines. In this vein, Andy Warhol wryly recalls that he had always wanted to be like a machine, for then it was easier to get along with people. We thus find ourselves fragmented, our feelings alienated from our world, our lives as well as our literature being characterizable by T. S. Eliot's phrase, "dissociation of sensibility."

This piece, to me, means that there is so much more to life than just electronics. The world is made up of so many people and so many places, and all we do is watch them through a screen. We turn ourselves into zombies by watching a screen all day instead of going outside and actually experiencing the real, natural

An old adage states that the eyes are the windows to the soul. What if, however, those eyes have a trademark name stamped onto them? William Gibson’s short story "Burning Chrome" depicts an advanced but soulless society where most of the technological advances are portrayed as being perverted by commercialization and human mechanization, rather than dedicated to improving the quality of life. This paper will touch upon the frivolous consumerism of as well as the dehumanizing uses of technology in the world of Automatic Jack, the reader’s companion throughout the story.

The use of counter culture and ideology can provide unique perspectives on the issues faced by everyone, even those who do not acknowledge it. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh portrays a drug addict who rejects any conventions of normalcy in the pursuit of an alternate reality. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis does the same through the depiction of a rich and greedy Wall Street tycoon. This essay will closely analyze the themes of illusion and reality in Trainspotting and American Psycho. The relationship between the fantasy world and the “real” world in these texts are closely linked and aid the narrative in a criticism of social and structural issues. The texts are often criticized as glorifying drug use and violence however through analyzing the effect of narrative, drug use and culture on the characters reality and illusions will argue that the elements of drug use and violence help in the deconstruction of greed and popular culture in the texts.

Even at a first glance, Cameron Stewart’s webcomic Sin Titulo seems to be fraught with mystery, uncertainty and a certain sense of foreboding. It’s fast-paced and pulls the reader in immediately with its questions of existentialism as it blurs the line between dream spaces and reality. There is anxiety, paranoia and the text is full of philosophical paradoxes and references. Above all, however, the text grapples with the question of what reality is, how human beings perceive it, and if it is possible to simulate it. This is directly in line with Jean Baudrillard’s philosophical treatise of Simulacra and Simulation, which examines the link between reality, society, and symbols. With this concept in mind, Cameron Stewart’s Sin Titulo can be read as a postmodern expression of paranoia about life being reduced to a simulation of reality where the original is lost and where there is a precession of simulacra.

Kurt Vonnegut compares technology to the dinosaur and the sabor-toothed tiger that leads to dehumanization. Humanity always fights with machines for the survival. Giannone is of the view, “Without literature a person dies of either putrescence of the heart of atrophy of the nervous system” (124). When Kurt Vonnegut completes the novel, he deeply believes that the technology will take away the humans and destroy the world. His didactic novels warn the harm and instruct to be aware of the

The society described in the novel reflects some aspects of society as we know it today and presents an excellent social commentary. Despite being written in 2003, it accurately predicts and satirizes the “oversharing” that we see on the Internet in 2015. Jimmy and Crake spend their free time throughout high school watching videos online, including

Matisse lives in a brilliantly lit society, which, in its desire for automated existence, has sunk into the decadence of comfort. Alive with consumption, humanity inhabits a pushbutton technotopic paradise revolving around the InterFace.