Symbolism in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Essay -- Fahrenheit 451 R

Ray Bradburys satire, Fahrenheit 451, is a sweet full of symbols criticizing the modern world. Among those symbols appears The Hound. The Hounds actions and even its shape are reflections of the society Bradbury has predicted to come.Montags world continues on without thought without any sincere reason. There is no learning, no growth, and no purpose. The Mechanical Hound slept exactly did non sleep, lived but did not live in its softly humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in the dark ceding back 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 didnt thing on its own that only acted as it was told. Captain Beatty states, It honorable 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, computer storage batteries, and electricity ( 20), and It doesnt think anything we dont want it to think (27). That society was programmed to not think, wonder or ask why. They didnt do anything that they werent vatic to do. Today, everything is happening just as The Hound is controlled. Programming is happening in our very world. Take inculcates for example. Consider Pavlovs experiment with ringing bells to kick upstairs an automatic response in dogs. He rang a bell the dogs salivated expecting food. The school board rings a bell, and students ris...