Our World to be Detroyed.

Author's Note: The novel, Fahrenheit 451, had a big effect on me. I thought that it was so true that our society today is so sucked into technology, me included. We really need to take a step back and see that technology isn't everything and that we'd be able to make it through life without it. We need to realize the rawness of those moments we love and we need to see that if we let technology take us over those moments and those feelings will be lost. I didn't really make this essay about the biggest thing in the novel, how knowledge was lost with the books, because this aspect of the book really spoke to me and made me realize a lot more about life and how we do kind of take advantage of it. I really like this essay and I'm very passionate about and I hope I kind of show you guys the importance of our emotions. Well, enjoy!


War is usually seen as something horrible and torturous but when a war destroys a world that needs to be destroyed, it only seems necessary. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the dystopic world he creates gets so bad and hopeless that only destruction could fix it. The war that started actually ended up helping this emotionless, technology-dependent world by letting them completely restart. Sometimes destruction is not only bad, but good can come out of it, especially when we need it most.

Humans need emotions to live and technology is only separating them from it. The allure of technology is where humans get lost. They think that technology will solve everything but it won’t; technology can only help us do tasks, it cannot be emotion, it cannot be love, it cannot be life. Nothing can replace what we really need in life and humans get the ridiculous idea that it can. We should be smart enough to see that we can’t advance technology to a point that it becomes stronger than the strongest, most dominant race on earth. Emotions are what separate us on Earth; grass can’t feel agony and stones can’t know the feeling of the wind against its gray, petrified skin. We know our emotions and our feelings and we let them get to our bones, we let them move us. If technology replaces these, we will become numb, we will not feel anything and that is where we will fall.

In a world where technology is the ruler and humanity is put on the back burner, there is a point where the world can’t function like that anymore; it gets to a point where it needs to be destroyed and rebuilt again. A phoenix is a mythical firebird that burns itself when it dies and is reborn from its own ashes. The bird is a symbol of immortality and resurrection. At the end of the novel, the world that Montag lives in had gotten to a point where being human was becoming impossible. People in Montag’s world have tried to reach eternal bliss which is impossible in reality. People in this world are numb; they feel nothing and think nothing. They risk their lives, by speeding and crashing cars, just so they can feel something, even if it’s only for a second. They want to feel that adrenaline and that panic inside of them because they hadn’t felt anything in so long. They are told that they are happy and they have believed that they are but deep down in their subconscious, they know that they are missing something. They are missing the emotions humans need; love, sadness, loneliness, pure happiness, all of these things humans need in life to prevent them from becoming robots themselves. When our world gets like this we need to find a way to be reborn because our world will end if we don’t start fresh.

There are a lot of things in this world that get humans lost. Technology is one but laziness, cruelty and carelessness are things that we bring upon ourselves. There are people out there who are selfish and conceited and think that their happiness is all that matters; in fact most humans are like that. In the novel, people have forgotten about others, they have forgotten that being caring is something important in life and the world around them has begun to fall apart because of it. We have to stop thinking that our happiness is the only thing in the world that matters, we have to start thinking about other people and about what really makes us happy. Video games and cell phones shouldn’t bring happiness to us, the people who are texting us or talking to us face-to-face is what should make us happy. Helping other people should make us happy; caring for other people should make us happy. The Internet and other technology shouldn’t be what matters most, it should be the people who make us laugh and who make us cry; it should be those people and moments that matter most. We should notice the leaves changing in the fall and we should notice the way the person we love smiles, the way our friends sit with us and be with us, just because we need each other. Our world should be filled with beautiful moments and people but we are letting ourselves forget these things. Sooner or later our world will only become what we fear most.

In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, he paints us a picture of a world that deserves to be in nightmares and shows us that the way our society is heading, this is the world we will end up living in. He has helped some people realize that the way we handle technology is irrational. The other people who have not realized this need to before things get to out of hand. People need to comprehend that technology can’t replace the most important things in life and that it can only temporarily stop the need. The way our society is heading, we will probably be in the same situation as in the novel and the only way to help us is to destroy everything and rebuild. Destruction is evil, yes, but it is also very helpful when our society is evil as well; destruction will help us restart because there is no other way we can get back to normal.