How Is Fahrenheit 451 Relevant Today

As people get lazier we want things done quicker. As Bradbury said, “Speed up the film, Montag, quick,click, pic, look, eye,now ,flick, here, there.”(Bradbury 52). In today’s society everything is sped up, and even everything is not fast enough. In Fahrenheit 451 society

Unfortunately Bradbury was not far of in his predictions of what the future held for us, from the lack of communication, right down to earbuds and large flat televisions.Bradbury saw that the more and more we wanted our lives to be easier, the more and more we became less connected to each other and more connected to our devices.In today's world much like in Fahrenheit 451 we are becoming less mindful of what's going on around us and beginning to care more about or next post to

Have you ever thought that the world is starting to be too wrapped up in technology? In the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury presents a dystopia in which people of the future are so wrapped up in the mind numbing effects of technology that they refuse to think. The parlor walls in Fahrenheit 451 are used as a brainwashing mechanism, the mechanical hounds show that people refuse to think and the technology encourages an accelerated pace of life which discourages reflection.

Ray Bradbury is a great foreshadower. His work is generally fantasy and horror and he it is exquisite. Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 back in 1953 and it still connects with the conflicts of today. The way society was in Fahrenheit 451 is similar to how it is today. The society is arrogant and selfish. No one cares about anyone or anything besides the TVs and technology. In Fahrenheit 451, the lack of physical communication and relationships between people due to the development of technology sabotages society before they know it.

The average person in our society spends 7-8 hours a day(The Washington Post) using technology; that is stuff like television, video games, surfing the web, etc. Let that set in; that’s a long time. Our society procrastinates also is constantly distracted by technology like no other. We are practically glued to technology; before we become slaves of technology we must change that. The theme of technology in Fahrenheit 451 informs us that the overuse of technology makes people lazy/procrastinate, that technology will overpower people’s lives, and technology takes away from people’s education.

People believe that an abundance of technology and fast, busy lives are beneficial to more efficient and overall better society. In reality, that lifestyle may be a detriment to society. The culture, characters, and themes in Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 create an interesting dystopian setting that serves as a warning to future readers.

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.

"It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed" (Bradbury 1). The book introduces a world of censorship and technology and the dangers they present. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was written originally as a short story titled, The Firemen and was published by Galaxy Science Fiction in 1950; he later expanded the story into a novel published in 1953. Ray Bradbury wrote the novel Fahrenheit 451 about censorship and conformity and is still important today because it shows what society is like in a world with little freedom which is illustrated by his choice to include a variety of literary techniques to help the reader grasp the novel's true meaning.

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a display of how humans are relying more and more on technology for entertainment at the price of their ability for intellectual development. It is a novel about technological dystopia, often compared to other novels such as, George Orwell’s 1984 and Asimov Ender’s Game. Although today’s technology has not quite caught up with Bradbury’s expectations, the threat of having his vision of a dystrophic society is very realistic. He sees a futuristic society in which this submission of thought is highly valued. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury displays a futuristic utopian society where "the people did not read books, enjoy nature, spend time by themselves, think independently, or have meaningful conversations" (Mogen, Pg. 111).

Ever see firefighter’s burn houses because it was their job? What about books being completely outlawed? In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury creates a futuristic, dystopian society, in where people are engulfed by an influx of technology. In this odd world, people are more concerned about technology than they are about people. In Fahrenheit 451, the book serves as a warning to us about the negative effects of the overuse of technology.

Oh how the flames have changed. No longer did the flames signify destruction, eating away at the pages that had once shaped society as we know it. No longer did the flamethrower clenched in a fireman’s fist burn the ideals that make us people. No longer did they dash the hopes, the dreams, of man. Fire, which was one demolition and violence, is now hope.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by, and the world as is known is changing in all perspectives. In Fahrenheit 451 the people have TV screens as walls, they create fire instead of putting it out, and they kill and burn books to entertain themselves. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shows how the world will change in technology, the way people work, and how people are going to be entertained. The technology of the future is clearly shown in Fahrenheit 451. For example, to replace the blood of somebody they use a “machine that pumps and replaces all the blood in the body” at the same time (6).

In today’s society, people are using technology for mostly everything; from communication with others, near and far, to studying and reading. Just like in the novel, technology is taking over our lives. In the futuristic dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury set the novel in the 24th century in which people were completely out of touch with each other. The novel was to parallel the downfall of today’s society.

Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” is a novel that warns about a lot of different things but one thing to it warns so strongly about is the over- reliance on technology. That is one thing that I believe our society is currently struggling with. Not matter what it is in some way or form technology is involved. I mean how often do you see someone read a newspaper to see what is going on in the world? How often do you see someone use a watch to tell the time and not use their phone? How often do you see someone send a handwritten letter and not send a text or email?

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, 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.