farhenheit 451

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I read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, which is a novel full of symbols criticizing the modern world. Among those symbols appears The Hound. The Hound's actions and even its shape are reflections of the society Bradbury has predicted to come. Montag's world continues on without thought; without any real reason.

There is no learning, no growth, and no purpose. "The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in the dark corner of the firehouse" (24), wrote Bradbury to describe this hound. Like the hound, society was alive yet dead as well, drudging through life; mindless. The Hound was a programmed robot that didn't think on its own; that only acted as it was told. Captain Beatty states, "It just 'functions'. It has a trajectory we decide on for it. It follows through. It targets itself, homes itself, and cuts off. Its only copper wire, storage batteries, and electri

city" (20), and "It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think" (27). That society was programmed to not think, wonder or ask why. They didn't do anything that they weren't supposed to do. Today, everything is happening just as The Hound is controlled. Take schools for example. Consider Pavlov's experiment with ringing bells !

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The perversion of Montag's society was eminent in the appearance of the Mechanical Hound. A "hound" with "eight spidery legs", a metal body and electrical eyes is far from just short of a normal dog. As it was with The Hound, society was far from normal. The society was strange, backward and totally abnormal. There was no compassion for life as Mildred makes apparent by stating "It's fun out in the country. You hit rabbits, sometimes you hit dogs. Go take the beetle" (64). Here Mildred tells Montag to take the car out and hit animals to relieve stress and anxiety. Schools no longer teach

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Approximate Word count = 649
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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