Fahrenheit 451. Buy it now on Amazon.

In part 2(p.75), “The Sieve and the Sand,” Montag shares with Mildred the books he has been hiding for the past year as he
tries to understand why people are willing to die rather than give up their books. Getting nowhere, Montag remembers
an old man he met in the park about a year ago, an academic who recited poetry. He decides Faber might help him
understand why books are important.

Conclusion
Bradbury portrays a culture in which its denizens are bombarded with a plethora of information
transmitted via television, most of which have got pernicious effects on them while a large
majority is not cognizant of, and familiar with, these influences which lead to such other fields of
importance as literature, education and history among them. Mildred, for example, is so sucked
into television and its messages that for her, the simulacrum has priority over her husband and
her real life. Individuals are not willing to dismiss the data conveyed to them by the media and to
lend credence to other sources of information which might be more reliable and less innocuous.
Bradbury’s work can be thought of as a microcosm of contemporary societies in which nothing is
immune to the surfeit of technology and its dire effects, and where those like Clarisse who are
reluctant to, as is the case with others, be steeped in technology are considered anti-social and

shunned by society. Though behaving like others at the outset, Montag as time passes by, comes
to realize the aforementioned effects emanating from the media and is therefore considered a
maverick that must be jettisoned. The society of Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian one in which by the
virtue of imposing surveillance, its authority manages to prevent any unrest and gain knowledge
of the manner the people are ruled and taken under control.
No single theory or model is adequate to determine the pivot of contemporary
surveillance, but important clues obtained from Jean Baudrillard’s hyperreal world, Bentham's
Panopticon vision and new surveillance/sousveillance theories indicate its focus on information
gathering and techniques for social control and social fragmentation. Surveillance systems appear
in political, economic and cultural contexts. Issues raised by surveillance have become central
features of contemporary advanced societies. There is no escape from dystopian future; therefore,
specific policies and informed actions are required to prevent the occurrence of possible
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