Technology Ruins Social Interactions In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

The book Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, predicts many technologies and societal issues we see today. In the story there is a man named Guy Montag, who is a firefighter. One day he meets a girl named Clarisse, who changes his view about everything. Her stories made him realize that his job makes him unhappy and that he loves books. Often times science fiction writers make predictions about the future that may or may not turn out to be true.

Over the years, technology has generated a greater impact in society than was expected. Even though it has become beneficial to many, Bradbury demonstrates the contrary and gloomy side of these advances. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury implies that technology is exasperating by illustrating Guy Montag and Mildred’s precarious relationship, ignorance in society, and the creation of a destructive character known as the Hound. First, Mildred and her affair with the several TV’s she owns are creating a high barrier between her and Montag’s relationship. For example, Montag asks his wife, “‘Will you turn the parlor off’ asked Montag, ‘That’s my family’ said Mildred” (48-9).

Fahrenheit 451 Technology In Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, there was a lot of distractions, and loss of human connection due to the use of technology. In the setting of Fahrenheit 451 books were banned to everyone in the nation so everyone relied on technology. The government used the technology to brainwash the citizens into believing this false sense of happiness, but in reality no one was actually happy. Technology plays a huge part in Fahrenheit 451, the 1950’s, and in today’s society.

Throughout the novel bradbury uses the characters to convey that technology is bad. Technology causes social problems and eliminates free thinkers. Technology in Fahrenheit 451 is a big part of the book, bradbury gives numerous examples in a dystopian society of technology and the negative effects it has brought upon the people. Bradbury uses the Protagonist’s wife Mildred as a example of technology causing to harm to your self dignity. Bradbury(6)“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 of her nostrils, and her not caring whether it came or went, went or came.”

In our 21st century today, it is somewhat precise to how Ray Bradbury portrayed the future in his novel “Fahrenheit 451.” Mildred Montag’s fate really matches up to the people in our society. Mildred, like many people today, are constantly on their technology devices and having no interest in the outside world. If more and more people in our word become like Mrs. Montag, then we will start losing interest in people and the world outside of technology.

Technology and media pose as a danger to key human traits in people throughout Montag’s society. Every member of this society uses technology excessively all throughout the town. People like Mildred, who spend their whole life in front of a screen, don’t have any sort of emotional connections to anything that is not on a screen. Technology is excessively used in this society affecting the relationships people have with each other. Ray Bradbury’s message to the readers of Fahrenheit 451 is to limit your technology use because screen time is dangerous to people.

The focus of technology taking over lives in the novel is a scarily similar aspect of our world. Don’t parents hate it when their teenage kids have their eyes constantly glued to their phones? It’s a stereotype because it is so often seen. Bradbury addresses this early in the novel, albeit it shows that not only teenagers have this problem: “He stared at the parlour that was dead and grey as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life if they switched on the electronic sun. “Now,” said Mildred, “my ‘family’ is my people. They tell me things; I laugh, they laugh! And the colours!” (Bradbury 24). Mildred considers the strangers on the program her ‘family,’ to the point where she hardly talks to her own husband. Her sole entertainment is the sound and color coming from the technology. This character in a 20th

In our society, our way of life is changing, and it is not what it use to be. Our society is becoming more attracted to all of these new technologies in our lives, where people are beginning to talk more on the phones and not in person. Music is becoming a problem, where people use it to block out the world around them by using earbuds. The internet is causing people to be less responsible in their daily lives and make stupid decisions. As well, people use the internet to blame other people for their own troubles or the nation’s troubles, which is ruining our society. Almost everything has changed in our society, and Ray Bradbury predicted all of this in his novel, Fahrenheit 451. His predictions on how people act in our society now are mostly correct, but the most notable is about technology affecting interaction, responsibility, and marriage.

Mildred, the wife of Montag, loves the use of technology especially in their home. In their house they have three huge flat screen tv’s in their room, Mildred has a converter that makes it seem like the characters in her favorite show are talking to her directly. What Bradbury is emphasize here the citizens in this society really does not go outside enjoy mother nature and the wonderful things she does or have any friends since most of the time they are home watching t.v. acting like that's their friend instead of actually human beings. Captain Beatty Montag’s boss said to Montag “Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, most men can, nowadays, is happier than any man who tries slide-ride….” (Bradbury 61). Society considers that anyone could be happier than everyone else if they can put back together a tv wall after tearing it apart, saying that Captain Beatty is saying technology is what everyone needs to be happy, not happy is going outside and making new friends or just enjoy nature for what it is. Montag’s society states if a person can tear down a tv and rebuild it from scratch, that person can be happier than everyone. Bradbury mocks technology by saying only technology will make everything better and nothing else will. That’s accurate for the present time since more advance technology is coming out and some buyers only care for entertainment and nothing else.

The focus on external objects that have no meaning is unhealthy to people's relationships and connections with others, and can replace our meaningful aspirations into meaningless time wasters. People are so obsessed with materials that they put their human interests, relationships and kindness towards each other aside. Human traits, like compassion or respect for each other is lost because people replace their love for others, with love for objects and when people stop them from being with their possessions, they get hostile and become trapped in this cycle of obsession with things. "'It’s only two thousand dollars,' she replied. ' And I should think you'd consider me sometimes.

Not only does technology lead the society’s people to live a life of isolation, but technology leads the people into feelings of loneliness. The inhabitant’s self-centeredness, along with isolation, causes them to lose their sense of curiosity and knowledge; which induces feelings that they cannot quite seem to understand. In order to push aside their insecurities, they turn to technology to drown out their thoughts, which prevents curiosity to occur. Another cause for feelings of loneliness, is people’s lack of affection towards one another. For example, even though Guy Montag and Mildred are married, they do not share a deep emotional connection with each other or affection like married people usually do. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag asks Mildred when did they first meet, but Mildred does not have any idea according to the dialogue, “When did we meet, and where?” [Asked Montag]... ”I don’t know,” [Mildred] said… “Funny, how funny, not to remember where or when you met your husband or wife” (Bradbury 40). If both of them were to have a meaningful relationship with affection, they were sure to remember where they met in the first place. Also, instead of having normal conversations, Mildred always isolates herself from Guy using her “seashells” and the “parlor walls”. Montag then has no one to

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

Technology affects the communication of people and their personal interaction. In the story Fahrenheit 451, Technology is a distraction for Mildred from talking to her husband Montag. Mildred is always distracted with the parlors and says that is her family than the real family. Montag tries to change with Mildred and shows her what he wanted to understand from the books that he was burning when he remembers of the lady that sacrifice herself for her books. In the Science fiction novel of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, it says that Technology is negatively affecting the personal interaction by causing losing thinking time, isolation, and distraction.

In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, mankind is portrayed as technologically advanced, and in turn, intellectually behind. The story follows Guy Montag, a middle-aged, disoriented, and unhappy fireman as he realizes the terrors of his world. In Bradbury’s dystopia, instead of saving lives, the firemen were the official “book burners”; they were the men who eradicated all possibilities of independent thought and freedom. From the ashes rose tvs, phones, and other gadgets the people turned to instead of becoming educated and knowledgeable . Throughout Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury demonstrates how the human race will increasingly link happiness and well being to their devices as a side effect of not having to put any effort into communicating in their artificial relationships.

“Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in awhile. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”(52). This shows how emotionless the society becomes. Everybody medicates their emotional state or represses it with TV, technology, and music from the seashells. Montag is pointing out that in order to know and feel what true happiness is, a person has to experience sadness or anger and vice versa. Mildred simply never feels anything. The society want to get rid of sadness and want everyone to be happy. As Montag mentioned, a person know what is true happiness after they experience sadness or any kind of negative emotions. When Montag is talking to Beatty, he mentions, “My wife is dying”(81). The meaning is not literally dying, what he means is that how Mildred lives and her lifestyle is meaningless. All she do is watch TV and overdose and she doesn't do much, if any critical thinking. That shows that Mildred is not truly