The society that Montag lives in is corrupted by technology, it impacts their cognitive and mental state. Mildred, his wife, is ignorant about situations and supresses reality she overdoses on sleeping pills, and does not come to realize it. Everyday she watches television and pretends she is in a play, refuses to spent time with Montag she rather watch tv and all she talks about is having another tv set up in their home. She refuses to have a baby because they bore her, and calls the tv her family. Mildred claims she is proud of her life although she’s lonely in her empty house when Montag is at work, she’s surrounded by her own thoughts. (84) Mildred cannot escape this virtual world, and instead conforms to what the parlor aunts and …show more content…
I knew it, that’s what I wanted to prove! I knew it would happen! I’ve always said poetry and tears, poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feeling, poetry and sickness” Mildred and her friends were not use to so much knowledge that hearing what the books contains were frightening and complex because it destroys their perfect stress free world. They started feeling emotions. After Montag begs her to listen to the book. Mildred refuses and screams for him to stop, showing that she would rather be ignorant than be exposed to something unknown. Mildred’s knowledge demonstrates how sometimes not knowing is easier that dealing with the truth. Mildred’s friend whose husband was going to war had all her guilt and sadness build up inside her and never expressed it which resulted in her to start crying and get angry when Montag read. The book makes people think and feel and realize the truth and reality. (9) "I rarely watch the ‘parlor walls' or go to races or Fun Parks. So I've lots of time for crazy thoughts, I guess. Have you seen the two hundred-foot-long billboards in the country beyond town? Did you know that once billboards were only twenty feet …show more content…
The hound represent the government instead of having the court proceedings the hound takes care of the job. Montag wonders if the hound has the ability to think, when unactive. The Captain responds, “It doesn’t think anything we don’t want it to think '' all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing.” Since it is a robot, it cannot feel it is heartless. Slowly each day society not educating themselves we transfor into robots not being able to perceive things us being attached to technology kills our brain
Montag questions his love for Mildred, and hers in return. He realizes that if Mildred were to die, he would not even be sad. All she seems to care about is her ‘family.’ When they try to remember when, where, and how they met [and realize they can’t remember], Montag starts to realize that he is in a loveless marriage.
Mildred had been shielding herself from the world for so long that she learned how to read lips. People see this in reality a lot today, people will check out of conversations and pretend to listen while ignoring and blocking them out. Furthermore, Clarisse is happy when Montag starts to actually think before he replies. “When I talk, you look at me.
The character of Mildred is depicted in the novel as shallow, baseless, and performing perfunctory tasks that offer no stimulus to her husband, Montag. Montag seems to seek a stimulus as evidenced by his dialogue with Clarisse. Clarisse is a catalyst who incites Montag’s newfound perfidy towards this dystopian society. However, Mildred’s character and identity in the novel is essential since she is a glimpse into the society that Bradbury typically keeps hidden. She surrounds herself with her “parlor-walls,” and is comfortable with vicariously living through television as depicted through said walls.
Another common argument asserting the claim that meeting Clarisse was bad for Montag is founded on the notion that she caused a rift in Montag’s marriage. The primary instance of Clarisse driving a wedge in Montag’s marriage is when she subjects Montag to a dandelion test to find out whether or not he is in love, and when it shows that he is not, Clarisse coldly remarks “What a shame… You’re not in love with anyone” while Montag repeatedly protests this statement (19-20). Even with the knowledge that Montag is married, Clarisse feels compelled to state that he is not in love with Mildred in a seemingly malicious attempt to ruin his relationship with his wife, demonstrating how Montag’s time with Clarisse is supposedly detrimental to his life.
Like Montag, Clarisse is fascinated by books. Furthermore, when Montag finds out about Clarisse’s death, he is distraught because of their connection. In contrast, Mildred, who almost forgot to tell Montag that Clarisse had died, has no reason to care about her death. This is a distinct difference between Montag and Mildred’s personalities, revealing Mildred’s lack of empathy. Why should she care?
Even when their own spouses are fighting in it, they believe it will be over painlessly, just a few days and they come back. Once they do slow down, however, and are left to think, they find themselves empty. Proving their emptiness is the dismal rate of suicide in the society Montag lives in. When his own wife, Mildred, commits suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills, a team of handymen are dispatched to save her.
Although the hound is stuck in the cage, the hound seems to see Montag as a threat and not a fellow fireman. This proves that technology is used as a tool allowing someone to control instead of something for
Mildred in the novel is Montag’s wife. She is the perfect example of a conformed person in this society because she is brainwashed by the tv that the government has set in place. Proof of such is when she said, " 'Books aren't people. You read and I look all around, but there isn't anybody!' ".
Montag tells Mildred about what happened the night Mildred the night before saying, “I wanted to talk to you.” He paused. “You took all the pills in your bottle last night.” “Oh I wouldn’t do that,” she said, surprised. “The bottle was empty.”
Mildred, the wife of Guy Montag, accurately portrays one of society’s brainwashed citizens who is controlled by technology so much to the point where she’s emotionally and physically drifted away from her own husband. From whenever Montag tries speaking to her or asking her for assistance, she can never seem to be disconnected from her so-called, “parlors” that symbolizes a modern day TV. She’s constantly referring to the people on her parlors as, “her family”(49), which is quite strange considering that Montag is the only family she has, yet she shows no feelings or contempt for him. Even Montag realizes their distant relationship which is why he, “wouldn’t cry if she died”(44). This implies how a normal person in their society is modernized
“There are too many of us... There are billions of us and that’s too many. Nobody knows anyone” (pg. 14). After Mildred tries to commit suicide, Montag begins to question his life. Even though the world is overpopulated, the government won't let anyone die, even if they choose to.
And they had time to think. So they ran off with the porches. ”(Bradbury 65) Our world is different. Ideas are shared freely because we aren’t as controlled as they are.
What happens when we follow society too much? In the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, we meet the wife, Mildred, of the main character, Guy Montag. Mildred has become self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling due to the ways of society. First, you can tell Mildred is self-centered because she wants more and more for herself.
Ray Bradbury 's novel Fahrenheit 451 delineates a society where books and quality information are censored while useless media is consumed daily by the citizens. Through the use of the character Mildred as a foil to contrast the distinct coming of age journey of the protagonist Guy Montag, Bradbury highlights the dangers of ignorance in a totalitarian society as well as the importance of critical thinking. From the beginning of the story, the author automatically epitomizes Mildred as a direct embodiment of the rest of the society: she overdoses, consumes a vast amount of mindless television, and is oblivious to the despotic and manipulative government. Bradbury utilizes Mildred as a symbol of ignorance to emphasize how a population will be devoid of the ability to think critically while living in a totalitarian society. Before Montag meets Clarisse, he is
In a novel full of remarkable characters, Mildred Montag lies on the other end of the spectrum. Mildred, Guy’s artificial, hollow wife, reminds the reader how the common citizen of society lives life and interacts with others. With her hardest decision in her shallow void of a life being deciding what show to watch on her 3-wall television, Mildred sees her life as perfect and won’t have her opinion rattled by anyone or even herself. She refuses to recognize the emotions locked away under her fragile, bleached skin. Mildred Montag is the epitome of a mediocre citizen who sees her life as the best it can possibly be due to lack of ambition, and this character is what my representation encaptures.