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Essay On Fahrenheit 451 Technology

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In this fast-paced society where our lives are surrounded by technology and it is a part of our everyday lives, it is of the utmost importance that we consider and are able to understand the role of technology, not only on our lives but also on society. In his 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, author Ray Bradbury demonstrates the damaging role that technology has on society. Throughout his novel, he constantly reinforces the negative impacts that technology has on us, namely how it replaces meaningful relationships, keeps us oblivious and controls us. As stated, Ray Bradbury uses the novel Fahrenheit 451 as a canvas to show and argue the negative role that technology has on society. Bradbury has illustrated in his book that one of the roles of technology …show more content…

This is been shown through their schooling system, where the students are brainwashed to never ask questions and to just accept whatever the film-teachers say. “We never ask questions, or at least most don't; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher… It’s a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it’s wine when it’s not” (Bradbury, 27). This shows us just how easy it is to brainwash a society with technology and to essentially control them; their new technology-controlled school has a film-teacher which states facts for people to memorize and teach the younger generation to never question anything, never ask why. This is then compared to telling someone that something is wine when it is clearly not, the people are taught to just accept whatever it is they are taught and it sets them up to be easily brainwashed. The ability to brainwash these citizens is exploited by the government as seen throughout the novel. Mildred, who represents the average citizen in this society, watches the parlour all day and listens to the seashell radio all night and finds the programming fascinating despite the fact that she does not learn anything and does not think critically. The government controls what the

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