Farenhiet 451
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
electricity" (20), and "It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think" (27). Paralleling this society is The Hound. Today, everything is happening just as The Hound is controlled. He rang a bell; the dogs salivated expecting food. In this society Bradbury created, you are pampered, entertained and kept completely happy with no worries; nothing to fear. Schools no longer teach core subjects, only sports and "fun" things. Is this normal? Unfortunately, it is becoming exactly that. Bradbury's society hasn't the time, nor the desire, to actually learn or better themselves. Therefore, more often than not, that void is filled with harmful, unmoral behavior, much like that behavior demonstrated in Bradbury's novel when some teenagers were intentionally trying to run him over with their car. When it attacks its victim, it injects lethal doses of morphine, causing the person to experience drowsiness and fall into a deep relaxing sleep, unaware that they will never wake up. The bell rings, the students sit, the student walks, the student is allowed to eat. A "hound" with "eight spidery legs", a metal body and electrical eyes is far from just short of a normal dog.
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