...“Robert Reilly claims that the novel is "a frightening picture of how the products of science can destroy persons and human values" (67), but this is an unfortunate simplification” (McGiveron). This quote brings up another overlaying theme in Fahrenheit 451 which is the dehumanization of the populace in the novel. The people in this book no longer care about anything whether it be their children, war, death, or the problems in the world around them. This is because the less they had to think the more they stopped to care and they gradually stopped caring about anything at all. Death, war, famine, and pain are all just words to them and mean nothing because they no longer understand the gravity of these concepts and it is all because...
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...and as a result, they speculate about what the future could bring given the way society is at their here and now. One book that focuses on this speculation of the future is Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a dystopian future through the eyes of Guy Montag, where firemen burn books rather than stop fires and society is obsessed with television. A prevalent theme in Fahrenheit 451 is how society as a whole is blind to the truth behind our surroundings. How humans live rejecting enlightenment in favor of the bliss that ignorance grants us, most clearly expressed by the burning of books (the rejection of knowledge) and society’s obsession with television...
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... like all tools, it must be used responsibly. However, the benefits of the use of technology in education outweigh the negatives. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury warns against technology taking over the lives of people. In the world portrayed in the story, books are illegal, and are burned when discovered. Technology has led to...
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