F451
Ray Bradbury's satire, Fahrenheit 451, 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 thing 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,
Paralleling this society is The Hound. That society was programmed to not think, wonder or ask why. Its only copper wire, storage batteries, and electricity" (20), and "It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think" (27). You hit rabbits, sometimes you hit dogs. Programming is happening in our very world. A 'hound' with "eight spidery legs", a metal body and electrical eyes is far from just short of a normal dog. All communication to the 'disturbing' outside world was cut off as to protect the citizens from having to worry. Today, everything is happening just as The Hound is controlled. The society lived in blind happiness. 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 people were oblivious to the war raging outside, and the bomb that eventually killed them. The school board rings a bell, and students rise to show respect for the American flag because 'now is the designated time to be patriotic, and you will or face consequences".
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