Memory, technology and discourse in Fahrenheit 451

Memory is a way of connecting people with their pasts. Historical buildings, museums, archives and monuments are some the tools which help to remember pasts (Nora, 1989). Books also have perspective about communal past. However, these things lose meaning in dystopian society like one portrayed Fahrenheit 451. Memories turn into weapons that destruct threaten human happiness foundations society. For this reason, they discarded from dystopic Furthermore, as Assmann (1989) notes, memory can become tool resistance under oppression. Thus, totalitarian state uses technology mesmerize people. By sinking hypnotic world technology, passive subjects who pose no serious threats regime’s sovereignty. Bradbury’s novel, hold books represent there still hope even for fissure twilight memories (Huyssen, 1995). This paper will investigate relationship between books, discourse 451 order understand possible nature world.