Fahrenheit 451 Dualities: Natural World vs. Unnatural World
Fahrenheit 451 Dualities: Natural World vs. Unnatural World
The book Fahrenheit 451 has many dualities, but the one I chose to focus on was the natural world vs. unnatural world. I chose this because I felt that it was not only a main conflict in the book but also in today’s modern society. One example of the unnatural world would be the giant TV that we find lingering throughout the book that consumes Montag’s wife, Mildred. As for the natural world, there aren’t very many examples in the book to represent it. This book represents how often, the technological world overpowers the natural world. Technology is a prominent part of today’s world. Practically everything we do requires or involves technology in some way. In the book, Mildred is completely consumed by technology, completely letting her grasp of the natural world go. She is constantly taking pills, watching TV, listening to the TV or radio, and barely going out of the house. From her sleep to her driving habits, it shows the lack of caring about nature from not only her but many other characters in the book. Although technology is not necessarily a bad thing, Bradbury displays it as something that should be feared. This is shown throughout the book when he adds new components to the book, such as the fire house “hound” that seems to resemble something more of a spider or a snake, representing something natural and pure being distorted into something unnatural and completely opposite of the original. He has a way of showing the things that were once natural and good to be turned into something that we should be scared of, simply because technology caught up to it and is somehow trying to improve it. At one point, after Mildred overdoses on the sleeping pills that she had been constantly taking, and the medics come to save her and hook up a machine to her to flush out the pills, Bradbury makes a comment saying "Did it drink of the darkness, did it suck out all the poisons accumulated over the
The book Fahrenheit 451 has many dualities, but the one I chose to focus on was the natural world vs. unnatural world. I chose this because I felt that it was not only a main conflict in the book but also in today’s modern society. One example of the unnatural world would be the giant TV that we find lingering throughout the book that consumes Montag’s wife, Mildred. As for the natural world, there aren’t very many examples in the book to represent it. This book represents how often, the technological world overpowers the natural world. Technology is a prominent part of today’s world. Practically everything we do requires or involves technology in some way. In the book, Mildred is completely consumed by technology, completely letting her grasp of the natural world go. She is constantly taking pills, watching TV, listening to the TV or radio, and barely going out of the house. From her sleep to her driving habits, it shows the lack of caring about nature from not only her but many other characters in the book. Although technology is not necessarily a bad thing, Bradbury displays it as something that should be feared. This is shown throughout the book when he adds new components to the book, such as the fire house “hound” that seems to resemble something more of a spider or a snake, representing something natural and pure being distorted into something unnatural and completely opposite of the original. He has a way of showing the things that were once natural and good to be turned into something that we should be scared of, simply because technology caught up to it and is somehow trying to improve it. At one point, after Mildred overdoses on the sleeping pills that she had been constantly taking, and the medics come to save her and hook up a machine to her to flush out the pills, Bradbury makes a comment saying "Did it drink of the darkness, did it suck out all the poisons accumulated over the