Physical, emotional and mental abuse affects the entire body. The physical is the outside, the mental is the inside, and the emotional is even deeper inside the body. People in this new world face this abuse every day. What the future could become has become a grave tragedy. Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 depicts a whole new world. It shows what the future will be like if new generations do not continue to improve their education. This book “teaches us about our recent past, our present, and our imagined future” with physical abuse (Smolla 896). The new utopian world began with major technological advances; “first with photography, then with cinema, radio and television” (Smolla 898). “Large flat screen televisions” were created for an entire room of entertainment, but they destroyed relationships (Smolla 897). Guy Montag realizes that he is losing his wife, Mildred, to these huge televisions; to whom they are greatly indebted for the purchase. “His marriage to Mildred is less than ideal,” because she is too busy watching new world shows (Smolla 897). According to Rodney Smolla, her shows could be related to the TV drama series, Sex and the City, in which Millie and her friends get together to talk about their lives and different events (897). Montag is shocked by the life they are living now. They hardly speak at all and don't even touch each other. He doesn't remember what he loves about her or how they met. Bradbury goes on to describe this world, estimated to be “late twentieth or early twenty-first century” with 451 degrees as the number at which books will burn; or “[t]he temperature where freedom burns” for some people (as qdt. in Smolla 895) (Smolla 896). “The bombers are always in the air and the firefighters are always in the middle of the paper… they would have a chance to get a good education. Even falling in love can be taken away. As depicted in Fahrenheit 451, Montag loses his wife to a television. Technology has affected their relationship because society has changed very drastically. They also accumulated a lot of debt caused by the televisions; and finally tore them to pieces. If this continued in other relationships in this American city, people would start to give up on love and have nothing left to live for. Life itself can change in an instant and some may not realize it. You have to realize that physical, emotional, and mental abuse can happen, but you can't let it happen. Works Cited Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1950.Smolla, Rodney A. “The Life of the Mind and a Meaningful Life: Reflections on Fahrenheit 451.” Review of Michigan law (1953): 895-900.