How Does Fahrenheit 451 Change Society
Society can change a person positively or negatively. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Mildred is the wife of the main character, Guy Montag. Society has made Mildred self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling.
First, Mildred Montag, likes to stay home, visit her friends, and sit and talk to her TVs, where her “relatives” are keeping her company. Mildred is very uncaring and selfish. She only cares about her TVs and getting the fourth wall put in to complete her parlor. She says, “How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in? It’s only two thousand dollars.” Obviously, Mildred doesn’t think the price of the fourth wall is expensive at all. Montag goes on to say that’s one-third of his yearly …show more content…
Clarisse is Mildred’s neighbor, who is also a little girl, that died by getting run over by a car. A traumatic event like that didn’t even upset Mildred, she didn’t have any care about it at all. Mildred is unfeeling toward others in her society. Mildred says, “Whole family moved out somewhere. But she’s gone for good. I think she’s dead.” and “I forgot all about it.” Mildred seems very uncaring to the event that has occurred in her very own neighborhood, a little girl getting run over. Captain Beatty explains to Montag one day that the reason people are the way they are now, the way Mildred is, it’s caused by society changing everything to make people simple and happy. Captain Beatty says, “Five minutes after a person is dead he’s on his way to the Big Flue, the Incinerators serviced by helicopters all over the country.” Funerals make people sad and grieve, so they take that away, and now people dying, or relatives dying isn’t a big deal because they made it to be nothing. No ceremony, just a very simple incarceration and done. No one but Montag seems to mind what happened at
First, Mildred Montag, likes to stay home, visit her friends, and sit and talk to her TVs, where her “relatives” are keeping her company. Mildred is very uncaring and selfish. She only cares about her TVs and getting the fourth wall put in to complete her parlor. She says, “How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in? It’s only two thousand dollars.” Obviously, Mildred doesn’t think the price of the fourth wall is expensive at all. Montag goes on to say that’s one-third of his yearly …show more content…
Clarisse is Mildred’s neighbor, who is also a little girl, that died by getting run over by a car. A traumatic event like that didn’t even upset Mildred, she didn’t have any care about it at all. Mildred is unfeeling toward others in her society. Mildred says, “Whole family moved out somewhere. But she’s gone for good. I think she’s dead.” and “I forgot all about it.” Mildred seems very uncaring to the event that has occurred in her very own neighborhood, a little girl getting run over. Captain Beatty explains to Montag one day that the reason people are the way they are now, the way Mildred is, it’s caused by society changing everything to make people simple and happy. Captain Beatty says, “Five minutes after a person is dead he’s on his way to the Big Flue, the Incinerators serviced by helicopters all over the country.” Funerals make people sad and grieve, so they take that away, and now people dying, or relatives dying isn’t a big deal because they made it to be nothing. No ceremony, just a very simple incarceration and done. No one but Montag seems to mind what happened at