In this document, the author discusses Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 and how it demonstrates the damaging role of technology in society. Specifically, Bradbury argues that technology replaces meaningful relationships, keeps people oblivious, and controls citizens. This is shown through examples in the novel where high-speed driving prevents observing nature, and a character overdoses on pills without recollection due to isolating with technology like radio. The novel illustrates how technology can take over lives and memory, making people oblivious even to their own experiences and society.

1. Fahrenheit 451 Technology
In this fast–paced society where our lives are surrounded by technology and is apart of our everyday
lives, it of utmost importance that we consider and are able to understand the role of technology, not
only in our lives but also in society. In his 1953 novel, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury demonstrates
the damaging role that technology has on society. Throughout his novel, he constantly reinforces the
negative impacts that technology has on us, namely how it replaces meaningful relationships, keeps
us oblivious and controls us. As stated, Ray Bradbury uses his novel Fahrenheit 451 as a canvas to
show and argue that role that technology has on society is to control and influence the lives and
minds of citizens.
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For instance, at the beginning of the story, Clarisse states she believes that jet car drivers do not
know what grass is or what a flower is as they are never driving slowly enough. "I sometimes think
that drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers because they never see them clearly," (Bradbury,
6). This states that the development of these technological cars has kept people ignorant. It is a
symbolizes how the advancement of technology has created a world where everything is
happening too fast for people to be fully aware of their surroundings, just as the racecar driver is
always driving too fast to properly observe their surroundings. In addition, in one of the first
scenes of the book, Guy Montag comes home to find his wife overdosed on sleeping pills and
subsequently calls the paramedics. However, the next morning she has no recollection of the
event and Montag suggests a possible explanation of her overdose. "Maybe you took two pills
and forgot, took two more, and forgot again and took two more, and were so dopey you kept right
on until you had thirty or forty in you" (Bradbury, 17). Throughout the novel, we can see
Mildred's ignorance through isolating herself into her parlor wall and seashell. The seashell
radio has caused her to become so oblivious of herself that she takes forgets if she took her
sleeping pills and overdoses and has no recollection of the event. This shows us that technology
has taken over so many aspects of our lives that it has begun to take over our memories and make
us oblivious to even the events of our own life. Through this, we are able to see just how
technology has overtaken our lives and has ultimately kept us oblivious to the events of our own
society as well as our own
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