What Is Technology In Fahrenheit 451

In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, written in the 1950’s, a future society’s relationship with technology is eerily predicted. In this society the government has made it illegal to own or read books. The novel involves a fireman, Guy Montag, who has set fire to houses that contain book his entire life. Later on, Montag begins reading books he has stolen over a period of time, and eventually he rebels against the government. Bradbury’s novel explores how technology affects society's happiness as well as society’s affect to independent thought. In Fahrenheit 451 society uses technology to direct themselves from the fact that they are deeply unhappy. In his conversation with his mentor, Montag says, “We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I’d burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help.” (Bradbury 84). In this society they have replaced books with technology such as TV’s and earbuds. Books often provide the opportunity to reflect on oneself, which the characters in Fahrenheit 451 do not have the opportunity to do. Without this opportunity, the society in the novel does not know how to handle certain problems such as stress and anger, which leads to unhappiness. …show more content…
The society in the novel does not know how to handle certain problems such as stress and anger, which leads to unhappiness and Since they are not able to read books they are not really intelligent and do not think for themselves. In Fahrenheit 451 society uses technology to direct themselves from the fact that they are deeply unhappy. Since there are no books and only technology, the society is unhappy and can not think for themselves and they do not know how to handle certain problems like stress and anger. The main idea of this novel is that because of technology people do not see the need in reading books so the government band