Essay about The Crying of Lot 49

In present day, technology has helped in the ways of distributing news, stories, and general entertainment. In the book Fahrenheit 451, technology is still used for these purposes, however, it has a much more drastic role in the status quo of society. With technology such as the television and small ear-piece sized

Technology has had many positive and negative effects in both Fahrenheit 451 and the real world.

In today's culture people use technology to their advantage all the time. They use it to hack, to learn the latest gossip, or to see breaking news around the world. But, sometimes they get obsessed and instead of a handy tool, it becomes a necessity and a lifestyle. In the story, The Veldt, Ray Bradbury uses imagery, symbolism, and internal conflict to express that misuse of technology can lead to unforeseen disadvantages.

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.

Technology may not be everything it seems. Although worldwide use of various devices and applications has revolutionized the way we live and our culture in a powerful and helpful way, there are many ramifications to be considered. The consequence to this revolution of culture and way of life is carefully observed and portrayed by M.T. Anderson in his novel Feed. Anderson uses the literary art of satire to create characters that are exaggerated versions of people today to reveal their uncontrollable obsession with technology.

In the 1950s, Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 with the intent to warn society about the dangers of technology and censorship. The 1950s however, did not present most of the technology that we today. Television was not created in the 50s, but this is when it became very popular for the average person to buy one. The first video recorder what created in the early 1950s. In 1954, the transistor radio become one of the most popular electronic communication devices in history. Little did Ray Bradbury and the people of the 50s know that in 2017 we were going to be able to have all three of these things combined into one small handheld device and that most people would own one of these devices. Already in the 1950s, Ray Bradbury saw something in technology and the way that it affected people that concerned him. That was over 60 years ago and technology has sprung forward in advancements since that time. Bradbury already noticed a trend in people’s need to be entertained and numbed through the things that they did and watched in the 1950s and he used his ideas of what the future would be like to serve as a warning for readers.

We use technology everyday. Smartphones, tablets, TV and computers are devices that we use to communicate with others and can be used for education. Technology has even saved lives, in hospitals or tracking a dangerous person; but in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, technology was made to look evil and what causes people to be unhappy, but Bradbury's actual warning was not to abuse technology. The government in Bradbury’s society had used technology as a way to control the citizens. Isolation, and the lack of humanity is a result of the control of technology. Bradbury had created the brainwashed society to show us, the reader, how important it is to not abuse technology, because then we can be more human and be much more happier. Ray Bradbury’s message in Fahrenheit 451 is a

The first theme is transformation from the manufacturing that America was used to seeing to a larger focus on what technology could offer. In the essay “Culture, Technology and the Cult of Tech”, Timothy Moy points out how the computer was used to try and influence the people to improve the future. Also proving the importance of technology, Moy mentions that technology was also used as a hobby for some people. In a time that was casted with despair, “tech geeks” were still able to find joy and discover improvements for the future. Using examples like Apple, Moy also proved the ideology that was being used with the rise of technology, “If you [were] interested in democracy and its future, you’d better understand computers” (Pg. 212). Apple was focused on making an “everybody” computer, which was not plausible to the people

Technology plays a big role in our lives because it’s everywhere and people have such easy access to it. In Harrison Bergeron, Americans see what happened to Harrison on live television. “It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled shotgun.” (Vonnegut). In Outdoors and Out of Reach, Studying the Brain, they discuss how important technology is in people’s lives.

The author of the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, tries to explain that technology is going to end up taking over books. Through Fahrenheit 451, Ray does an excellent job by showing the reader about how technology can take over people’s minds. This novel helps explain that the people became dependent on their technologies that they no longer found interest in books, and that it made them feel an emotion other than happiness. Reading this book, I noticed that multiple times, the author tried to show how technology took over. People in this society had no knowledge or common sense because of their dependance on technology.

When he talks you can feel a sense of trust as Michael Pennington presents Oedipus as such a loud fluent speaker, but the use of Sophocles puns add a tone of dramatic irony to the play for instance his last line ‘I see it all’ just before he plunges his own eyes out..

Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) is one of the early instances of postmodern literature, in which the spread of mass culture plays a central role. In addition, the novel explores the ways, in which conspiracy of unknown forces or structures influence an individual’s vision of the world and self. The entire novel is saturated with references to popular culture; Oedipa’s world is filled with and dominated by mass culture technology, such as television, radio and newspaper, and most of the people around her are in some ways representing various historical figures. The names of the characters are an essential aspect of The Crying of Lot 49, and are reflecting both popular culture and the struggle to determine one’s identity in the novel. Oedipa’s name is a reference to the Ancient Greek tragedy

This use of technology is just one of the issues being addressed in the movie. There is an abundance of appliances, gadgets and devices that are created with the idea that they are meant to make the world easier, simpler and more fun to live in. But the majority of these devices fail to serve their purpose making things more cluttered and cumbersome. This includes elevators that don't work, automated coffee machines that pour the coffee in the incorrect place, alarm clocks that get 'stuck', miniature sized computers with magnifying glasses for viewing, and most importantly to the main character, Sam Lowry, heating ducts that don't work.

From the members of the Peter Pinguid Society and the Inamorati Anonymous to Nefastis and even Oedipa herself, the characters are frequently motivated by strange missions or mission statements, which ultimately isolate them from society and each other. The concept of entropy, we are told, “bothered [Nefastis] as much as “Trystero” bothered Oedipa” (Pynchon 84), highlighting the obsessive quality that both characters share. The end of this passage leaves us deeply doubting the veracity of Nefastis’ claims about Maxwell’s Demon, as Oedipa reassures herself that “Nefastis is a nut […] a sincere nut” (Pynchon 86). Is Oedipa’s fixation with the mystery of Trystero any different? She herself recognizes that the entire mystery may be some elaborate prank devised by her ex-lover, yet she finds herself increasingly isolated as the search for some elusive truth draws her further

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