Essay On Fahrenheit 451
Today's society has gone through many changes throughout the years, and Fahrenheit 451 is leading to the next type of humanity. Fahrenheit 451, is a novel about a materialistic society in which people have lost social interaction with each other. This novel by Ray Bradbury has many similarities to the society we live in today, which gives the reader a powerful message about the community.
Addiction has become a common issue and will continue to increase as people desire more material. Mildred in Fahrenheit 451, is constantly asking for a “fourth wall” and how it will be “all kinds of exotic people’s room”, she also argues that it isn’t a big deal because “it’s only two thousand dollars” (Bradbury 20). Mildred has an addiction with technology and uses it to distract herself from her feelings, such as people in our society that become addicts in order to to get away from real world problems. An article by the World of Health states that a person with a severe addiction in today’s world becomes “ impulsive, dependent, …show more content…
In the futuristic world of Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse has fear toward teenagers her age, because “they kill each other”, six of her friends “have been shot in the last year” and “ten of them died in car wrecks”(Bradbury 30). In the early 2000’s there were very astonishing stories in which the youth was a part of. Clarisse’s grandfather remembers of a time when teenagers didn’t kill each other, but that time is becoming distant from us because the amount of deaths committed by teenagers is increasing. Soon generations will become like Fahrenheit 451 and run wild and kill everything in their path.
Bradbury uses Fahrenheit 451 as a warning toward our society and what it will become if we don’t take action. The similarities in the novel and in today’s world shows that were leaning toward a society that doesn’t take into consideration everyone around
Addiction has become a common issue and will continue to increase as people desire more material. Mildred in Fahrenheit 451, is constantly asking for a “fourth wall” and how it will be “all kinds of exotic people’s room”, she also argues that it isn’t a big deal because “it’s only two thousand dollars” (Bradbury 20). Mildred has an addiction with technology and uses it to distract herself from her feelings, such as people in our society that become addicts in order to to get away from real world problems. An article by the World of Health states that a person with a severe addiction in today’s world becomes “ impulsive, dependent, …show more content…
In the futuristic world of Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse has fear toward teenagers her age, because “they kill each other”, six of her friends “have been shot in the last year” and “ten of them died in car wrecks”(Bradbury 30). In the early 2000’s there were very astonishing stories in which the youth was a part of. Clarisse’s grandfather remembers of a time when teenagers didn’t kill each other, but that time is becoming distant from us because the amount of deaths committed by teenagers is increasing. Soon generations will become like Fahrenheit 451 and run wild and kill everything in their path.
Bradbury uses Fahrenheit 451 as a warning toward our society and what it will become if we don’t take action. The similarities in the novel and in today’s world shows that were leaning toward a society that doesn’t take into consideration everyone around