What Is The Theme Of Technology In Fahrenheit 451

Throughout the novel, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury portrayal of mass media and technology as a veil that obscures real interactions and experiences with human beings and interferes with the characters’ ability to think deeply about their lives and societal issues proves he would be dismayed with modern technology. Bradbury believes that social media cages its users from knowing what is happening in the outside world. However, when one comprehends and understands books, he portrays that by connecting to books one is connecting to human beings. He declares that one does not need books, but the words that “once were in books…The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through radios and televisors, but are not” (82). Bradbury, through the character
Nevertheless, nowadays, “social media” prevent people from interacting with other people. Things, like Instagram or Twitter, make humans look like zombies. Every day teenagers are just looking down onto their screen just to see if a new post comes up so they can like it. Bradbury would be disgusted by social media today because people are not interacting with each other and are not thinking deeply about societal concerns. All through the novel, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury shows that people do not intermingle with each other. People, like Mildred, are alienating themselves just to stay home and watch T.V. shows. In Mildred’s case, she is always watching the “relatives” just to distract herself from interacting with the truth and experiencing the actual reality. Mildred is only concern about herself to the point that she does not say farewell to her husband. Today, teenagers are always on social media preventing themselves from interacting with other people and gaining interaction skills. People are not connecting themselves and the society and are not understanding with that is