4. Explain some of the futuristic (fantastic) technological advances seen in the novel.
7. Is Beatty hypocritical? Fully explain your answer.
9. Explain the images of death, suicide, and murderin the novel. What are their relationships to the totalitarian society?
THe most garish feature is the television parlour. Here programs show an endless stream of superficial drivel on three full-wall screens.Mildred, Montag's wife, loves these shows.
There is also the Mechanical Hound, a robotic hunter killer who serves the firemen as a blood hound .
Beatty is hypocritical in the sense that he is well read yet claims to despise the things he reads. His brash tirades about famous literature, however, gives us a sense that he protests a little too much.
Death or suicide does not seem like such a bad thing in this totalitarian state. Wisdom is rendered virtually extinct. In its place is a world of superficiality, reality TV and disposable relationships (sound sadly familiar?). The old lady, for example, preferred to be burnt alive with her precious books instead of live in such a world.
