What Is The Role Of Technology In Fahrenheit 451

There’s a lot of things that affects our ability to learn, think, and comprehend things. Most of this entertainment has to do with technology. Technology plays a very very big part in today’s entertainment and even fifty or so years ago when technology was just starting to become big in world. The technology doesn’t exactly have to be electronics, it can mobile things such as planes, cars, heck even kitchen appliances! Now I say this because people can get so attached to things that they can hardly think, learn or comprehend anything outside of that new object. With Mildred Montag, the wife of the main character in Fahrenheit 451, she’s is a perfect example of how technology is definitely not giving the ability for her to think, learn and comprehend things.

In various scenes that include any interactions with Mildred, it is very clear that she’s invested in the television or the “parlor family”. Mildred heavily relies on them to make her decisions and basically think for her. Whenever her husband, Guy, wanted to interact with her, Mildred rarely paid any mind to him due to the fact that she was in front of her television. Mildred isn’t the only person in the book who is this way when it comes to entertainment, it’s every single person in year of 2052. For example, there’s Mildred’s friend, Mrs. Bowles, who places her children in front of
Captain Beatty is indeed right about his statement towards Montag about how mindless entertainment can weaken and destroy the mind. You can see it weaken and demolish Mildred’s mind and her friends’ in only a few pages and sentences of the book. Thus if you truly dig deeper into it, there is no doubt in mind that these people in the city that they live in, every single person is repeating sentences over and over when they’re agreeing with someone or just having a “regular”