The society presented in the novel Fahrenheit 451 is described as robotic, and powerless. Ray Bradbury has taken the realistic concept of equality, and wants everyone to be equal, and translated it into a population of robot like beings.

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Name: Morgan Caruso
Course: Grade 10W English
Teacher: Mr. Werner Paetzold
Due Date: Monday, September 13th 2010

The Robot Society


When a community stops asking questions, people stop thinking for themselves and are unable to identify right from wrong. This prevents them from gaining new information and eventually all communication and relation to others will stop. The society stops caring for one and other and people are then isolated, people who do not think, who do not discuss their opinions become vulnerable for manipulation.

This illustrates a perfect example of the intention of author Ray Bradbury in his novel Fahrenheit 451, he envisions a society where the people have become brainwashed by an ideology which prohibits them to question authority and law. The community has narrowed their opportunities to inquire and think independently because of constant bombardment by television, radio advertisements and audio information. The community is forced to deal with occurrences which distract from the opportunity to establish their own thoughts.

The world is so overloaded with information that people are unable to think for themselves. The author tries to emulate the effect of distraction by incorporating huge amounts of descriptive language which in parallel to the story, distract the reader from the bigger picture.

I feel the major concept the author conveys is the notion that the people have brought on the isolation and robotic way of life themselves. They asked everyone be equal, equally treated, equally educated. This is evident on pages 58 and 59 of the novel, when Chief Beatty and Montag are conversing;

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“What more easily explained and natural? With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, gabbers, snatchers, fliers and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knower’s, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual’, of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally bright, did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn’t it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be ...

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