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How Does Bradbury Use Technology In Fahrenheit 451

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(AGG) Humanity has had it's technologically primitive days, but because we have advanced technologically, we have become slaves to our screens. (BS-1) Many of Bradbury’s predictions on technological advancements, in his novel Fahrenheit 451, have come true in our lives today. (BS-2) Mildred and the rest of the society in the novel are held hostage by their screens and are greatly affected by it. (BS-3) In real life, excessive use of technology can cause grave and possibly irreversible damage. (TS) Many of Bradbury's technological predictions in the novel Fahrenheit 451 have come true and the overuse of technology has ill effects on the people within the novel and us in reality. (MIP-1)Numerous “futuristic” elements that Bradbury wrote/predicted …show more content…

(SIP-A) Mildred is constantly using technology excessively and this will have profound effects on her. (STEWE-1) Mildred watches her parlor so much that Montag notices that “No matter when he came in the walls were always talking to mildred”(Bradbury 42). Mildred is overusing technology so much that whenever Montag walks into his living room, Mildred is there doing absolutely nothing but watching TV, all the time. (STEWE-2) Whenever Mildred was going to sleep, “She was awake...her Seashell was tamped in her ear again…(Bradbury 32). Mildred is sacrificing her sleep for her music. The human body needs sleep and she is neglecting to do that and this will eventually cause profound damage to her health. (SIP-B) Because Mildred uses technology excessively, she has lost her ability to hold on information and it eventually causes her to do abnormal things. (STEWE-1) Because Mildred never takes a break from her technology and she had to take her pills, she “took two pills and forgot and took two more,and forgot and took two more, and you -Mildred- were so dopey you kept right on until you had thirty or forty of them in you”(Bradbury 17). Because of her excessive use of technology, she overdosed on pills. She constantly forgets things due to her use of the parlor. Her obsession is so great that it puts her life at risk. (STEWE-2) The kids in the society are acting very abnormal due to their prolonged use of technology. Clarisse complained that she has “An hour of TV class…. Four more hours of film teacher. They run us so ragged we can't do anything but go to bed or go to the Fun Park and bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher place or wreck cars”(Bradbury 27). These kids are turning into a bunch of Mildreds. Their over exposure to screens is causing them to start behaving in odd ways. These scary results would not have surfaced if

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