Literary Topic Related To Your Novel (Fahrenheit 451) In Some Way

Fahrenheit 451
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The Theme of Technology in Farhrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Outline
* INTRODUCTION
1 The author of the Novel
2 What type ofnovel is it
B. BACKGROUND INFORMATION
1. When was the book pubished
2. Biograohy of the author.
-When they were born.
-Circumstances and authors life experiences that led to the the writingof the novel.
3. Setting of the novel
C. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
1. Bradbury had openly criticized audio and visual media for corrupting people’s minds.
2. Technology and alienation
3. Society and politics of propaganda.
4. Technology and the developments of the Second World War.
5. Symbolism to portray on how dangerous it can be to depend on Television for intellectual development rather than books solely.
6. The Novel as a science fiction.
D. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1 How similar are the problems in Fahrenheit 451 to those faced in the world today?
2 How does the novel portray these problems?
3 How is the burning of books politically significant in Fahrenheit 451?
* HYPOTHESIS OF STUDY
Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 has pointed out how technology has alienated man from the search of knowledge and embrace entertainment for self-fulfilment.
* PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
1 The aim of this paper is to illustrate how technology has alienated human beings from the search of knowledge and embrace entertainment for self-fulfillment.
2 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
1 Explore societal understanding of technology as visualized by Bradbury.
2 Motivated by the love of science fiction.
3 Achievement of course objectives.
3 CONCLUSION
1 Fahrenheit 451’s rhetoric’s gives an understanding on how technology can be a man’s best companion and simultaneously his worst enemy.
Introduction
Farhrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a novel that realistically portrays the issues of modernisation in a technologically driven world. The novel is based on how individuals have been alienated from knowledge by a society that has developed an addiction to artificial influences enhanced by technological developments.
Background Information
Fahrenheit 451 is a clairvoyantly dystopic novel that was authored by Ray Bradbury, an American Fantasy and Horror writer that never wanted to be referred to as a Science Fiction author. The book was published in 1953 where it became instantly classic because it delves into conformism and censorship. Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopia that represents the future American society where critical thought is prohibited, at the expense of technology.
The author, Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. He was from a family of six where his father worked as a telephone lineman. He is well known for his Science Fiction short stories which combine social criticism of the dangers of technology.
The setting of the novel is a large American city sometime in the future known as Elm City. Actions in this novel take place in the countryside. It is symbolic for it represents purity and return to the human roots as opposed to the corruptedness of life in the city. Published during the era in which there was a global spread of communism and the cold war, Ray Bradbury had thought the world was hurtling towards gradual destruction. America, in the midst of these gruesome systems, faced a myriad of accusations including its place in spreading propaganda that fueled an international rivalry. Even though the text is over 64 years of age, the author creates a juxtaposed perspicacity of the contemporary society in which people are embracing the fast-paced advances in technology and slowly abandoning and ignoring books as a primary source of knowledge. There is a striking dark similarity of the strange Elm City in representation to the 21st Century American environment that has been filled with political propaganda and rumors.
The novel adopts a third person point of view where a semi-omniscient narrator tells the story in past tense. Through the all-knowing nature of the narrator, we can visualize the main character. Montag's metamorphosis from his thoughts and the feelings that lead to their gradual transformation.
Statement of the Problem
In 1951, two years before he authored Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury had already spoken of his fears about television and radio. He said that radio had increasingly contributed to the masses' lack of attention. This is what inspired him to read novels. Bradbury had openly criticized audio and visual media for corrupting people’s minds terming it as a '...hopscotching existence...' The media had alienated people from giving them information to increase knowledge to filling them with unnecessary entertainment (Johnston ;Web).
The theme of technology and alienation has been widespread throughout the novel. The writer apparently addresses the role of technology in alienating people from both knowledge and one another. Bradbury's prognosticative novella, Fahrenheit 451 is a clear depiction of the contemporary society whereby paper pulp has been disregarded and replaced with technology. Bradbury's prescient insight through the book, originally aimed to be of fantastical nature. This vision has been gradually fulfilled for the world is already treading the path of his foreseen ideological kakistocracy. Bradbury’s thoughts were based on the problems America faced during the 1940’s and early 50’s CITATION Bri07 \l 1033 (Brians, Web).
The novel depicts a society where the masses are bombarded with propaganda and political trash through imagery and an always present television. The visual media is aimed at distracting the viewers and at the same time fascinate them with alluded entertainment. This novel constantly depicts mass media as one that obscures reality hence interfering with a character's free thinking capacity. Captain guy says, "…whirl man's mind so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thoughts!" (52)
Even though the book is about a future occurrence, Bradbury wanted readers to relate to it. This led him to adopt a strange atmosphere that would be compared to the tense political surroundings that were existent during that era. The position of Bradbury shaped technology and Alienation in this novel as among the emerging scholars who represented the genre of Science Fiction after the World War Two. Human beings had begun manipulating technological trends into lethal weaponry rather than using it to create good. Nations had installed efforts on how to end humanity rather than help it survive through advancements in technology (Boyer, 257).
Bradbury fiercely addressed his take on technology, and none of his principles as portray...