What Is Addiction In Fahrenheit 451

Entertainment like technology can certainly be addictive. It can serve the same purposes as drugs and alcohol. “It’s really fun, It’ll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed.” (p.18) Mildred is so addicted to technology and entertainment that even though they already have three wall televisions she wants a fourth one. There are similarities in the consequences of drugs and alcohol and entertainment such as technology like watching countless hours of television daily for long periods of time can have decreasing effects on health and intellectuality; the same thing can be said for drugs and alcohol too. In the book Fahrenheit 451 you can tell that Mildred is addicted to entertainment and technology. In parts of
the book when Mildred and Montag are talking you can tell that she is focused on technology.

Entertainment can be addictive to people especially to those who don’t have very much self control. Some forms of entertainment include phones, television, Movies, internet, people, and games. I think that an addiction forms when someone cannot function in their daily life without such thing. Entertainment is addictive because whatever is entertaining you, you crave so much and so often that is becomes an addiction and you can’t get enough of that entertainment.

Entertainment can serve the same purposes as drugs or alcohol.
Sometimes you cannot fathom the addiction but its there. When you have an addiction to drugs or alcohol the addiction isn’t necessarily to the substance but how the drugs or alcohol make you feel during or after. The addiction can serve as a relaxant, anti stress medication or even a rush feel and because it gives you that relaxed feel or rush you want to do it again and again until the need for it evolves into an addiction. The same is with entertainment or technology. For example, you come home melancholy from a long hard day at school and want to unwind from the days stress. So you watch a torrent amount of t.v.., get on your phone for a while, watch Netflix or play games which makes you feel less stressed from the day and it calms you down. It gets your mind focused on something other than your cause of the stress or the stress itself. When that happens everyday and you need the entertainment or technology to keep your mind off of the stress or stressor it becomes an addiction. It can be the same with drugs or alcohol also, for instance if you have one drink every once and a while because you have a bad day that isn’t an addiction but if you need the drink or substance in order to continue with your day. It is incomprehensible the amount of people that have an addiction but don’t realize
it.

There are many similar consequences between the addiction of entertainment or technology and drugs or alcohol. Different drugs, because of their chemical structure can affect the body in different ways. The effects of the addictions can result in desolation of your body. The chemicals in drugs can change the make-up of the human body. Drugs react in the brain to change the way the body feels. The brain is the master control center of the body. It sends messages to the rest of the body based on the signals that it gets from chemical messengers, or drugs. Drugs react in the brain to change the way the body feels. The brain is the master control center of the body, and it sends messages to the rest of the body based on the signals that it gets from drugs.