Role Of Technology In Fahrenheit 451

Current society is surrounded by technology; it is everywhere and practically impossible to get away from. This is apparent in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, which focuses on the dangers of the advancement of technology. Throughout the novel, Bradbury was portraying his fear of how the development of technology would effect society. In 1953, when Fahrenheit 451 was published Bradbury’s primary objective was to demonstrate how technology would ruin society and corrupt the people in it. His prediction of technology’s harmful effect and its damaging potential it has on society is shown currently rising through modern society. Fahrenheit 451 accurately reflects trends in present-day society because of the use and abuse of technology, …show more content…
When technology is around an unwillingness to think will always follow. There is plenty of absurdity out there that makes society not intensely think. Technology does the thinking for society and gives them the answers; society does not think for themselves. Bradbury also strained to warn society to think intensely about their lives for a minute. This is clear when Montag says to Mrs. Bowles “Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarean sections, too, and your children! Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to sop it” (98). Montag portrayed a message to put down all the technology for once and think about life. Bradbury figured out that technology would come to a point where it would rob people of their opinions and thoughts and will stuff them with what it thinks. Then, it would lead people being unwilling to think for themselves and going to technology to think for