IndexIntroductionCompare and Contrast: Fahrenheit 451 and Modern SocietyConclusionWorks CitedIntroductionIn Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the setting of the book takes place in a future period and tells us about this society which is really similar to ours. The book follows Guy Montag, a fireman who burns down people's houses to get books, who meets a teenager named Clarisse McClellan who opens his eyes to the world around him and how lonely things really are. Montag's wife, Mildred, and everyone else in his town are attached to this thing called the Parlor and it's like having TVs on all the walls wherever they are. Montag decides that he can't be a fireman anymore and decides that he wants to leave town and start a new life with this other group that likes to read books. Before he could do so, the rest of the firefighters took him to his house where he has some books, so Montag had to kill the fire captain and escape the city quickly. Eventually, Montag joined this group that his friend called Faber had told him to meet up with. This essay will analyze the many similarities between Fahrenheit 451 and modern American society. However, most of these similarities are not good for modern American society because modern society is slowly turning into a kind of Fahrenheit 451 society and that was really horrible. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original EssayCompare and Contrast: Fahrenheit 451 and Modern SocietyThe use of books in this book and in modern society is very similar to what most people would think they were. In Fahrenheit 451, people caught with books are delivered by neighbors. Later the fire brigade arrives and burns the person's books and also his house. What happens to the person is up to them. In the book, Mrs. Blake after the firefighters burned down her house, wanted to die inside the house with her books and killed herself. Montag after realizing that he had hidden many books inside his house, was called and the firefighters had to try to burn down his house because Montag's wife, Mildred, called them and the Captain had his suspicions too about Montag and the fact that he owned books because the bloodhound was able to smell the books inside his house. Montag managed to escape and join this group that read and memorized books and got rid of them, otherwise they would get in trouble with the police. In modern society, books are not used as much today compared to 13 years ago. According to the Washington Post, in 2003, 29.2% of people in the United States read books, while in 2017, only 19% of people read books. Modern society is not burning books like in Fahrenheit 451, but there is a connection between the two societies in that the use of books is low for each society and they are no longer used. What both modern society and Fahrenheit 451 have in common is that instead of reading books, they both focus on something more technological. The technological advances in Fahrenheit 451 and modern society are quite similar and there are real products that Bradbury predicted would become a reality. and some of these products actually happened. One of those objects is called a conch that Mildred has in her ears when she overdosed on sleeping pills. The seashells in this book basically allow the person to hear the endless waves of the ocean, so they block out the noise of the outside world. Montag was not happy with Mildred wearing these shells because he thought “There wasn't an old wife joke thatshe talked so much on the phone that her desperate husband ran to the nearest shop and called her to ask what was going on? for dinner? So why didn't he buy himself a Seashell audio broadcast station and talk to his wife late at night, muttering, whispering, shouting, shouting, shouting?” Shells in this world are commonly compared to Bluetooth headphones and earphones. Another product introduced in Fahrenheit 451 and present in today's society is called TV Parlor. The living room is very addictive for this society as no one talks to each other. For example, Mildred seems the most dependent on the living room walls because when Montag tries to spend some time with Mildred since he claims to be ill, Mildred does not refuse or turn off the living room walls at all even when Montag tells her to do so. turn it off. Living room walls in modern society are flat screen TVs right now because newer TVs take up the walls when mounted. The last thing Bradbury had foreseen were the live media events mentioned in the book. When Montag was fleeing the city after killing the Captain, his escape was filmed by news company helicopters. After finding another lead, they let Montag wander off and chase this other guy who was walking during the escape. Montag found out that they had arrested this guy and the reason why they chose this guy was because it would take all night to find Montag, so they decided to choose a guy walking down the street so they could finish the live relationship first of other programming. These live media reports are compared to the news coverage that exists in our society today because many journalists must report live for things like natural disasters, shootings, and criminal cases. Both books and technology lead to loneliness in the world of Fahrenheit 451 and in modern society. The outlawing of books in Fahrenheit 451 has led to some cases of loneliness in this book. When Montag talked to Clarisse for the second time, Clarisse said that people thought she was weird and antisocial but in reality she doesn't talk to people her age but talks to people like Montag and his family. But based on the culture of the book, Clarisse would have been considered antisocial because she wanted to talk to her real family and not be addicted to TV lounges. It is assumed that Clarisse also read books because she managed to convince Montag to change his point of view on books and the world in general. Montag's loneliness was partly due to the book ban. Once Montag realizes that books shouldn't be illegal, Montag becomes an outcast from the fire department because he doesn't know how he would fit in with them knowing that he does work that goes against his ideals. Technology has also led Montag to feel alone. Even though technology has grown in Fahrenheit 451's future, Montag has never been a fan of it. Montag does not appear to interact with much of the technology presented in the book. Montag's wife, Mildred, was addicted to technology in the book and particularly the Parlor. Mildred watched the living room all day and cared almost nothing about Montag. Since Montag and Mildred had no real relationship, Montag felt alone because he had no real friends with whom he could talk about his situation other than Faber and the group he met at the end of the book. Both books and technology have had an effect on our society which has recently become more solitary. With the increase of technology in our society, this has led to books becoming less used in recent years. With technology, people reading, 65(2), 197-213.