Analysis of Mildred Montag

Clarisse tells Montag this, and it makes him wonder if anyone really does care. Montag realizes that he lives in a world of conceited people. He realizes that he does not really care about anyone, including his wife Mildred. People in his society don't think about others feelings when acting. From this, Montag learns the meaning of caring. He learns what a terrible place it is to live in, where no one cares about anyone but themselves. This only changes Montag for the better. At one point, Montag and the other firemen go to a house because a lady has books concealed in her home. The lady, not concerned about being burned to death, is determined to stay with her books. Montag is stunned by her decision, and cares very much about her safety. “Montag placed his hand on the woman's elbow. 'You can come with me'” (Bradbury 39) This is a turning point for Montag, in which he starts to care about everyone and their feelings.

The word ‘family’ reveals how Mildred relies on technology like a real family instead of caring and being warm-hearted towards her husband, who is her actual family. In addition, it represents Mildred’s obsession towards the parlor. The word ‘sick’ shows that Montag needs care from someone and Mildred is not helping him, by not even decreasing the volume for a sick husband who is continually asking her to turn it off, indicates that Mildred has no care for her husband. Mildred’s subsequent reliance on technology makes her inseparable from it, trying to stay with technology all the time and not caring what happens to others hence making her selfish. Mildred’s egocentric behaviour is also illustrated when she puts the alarm when Montag brings the books to home and reads them in a society where they do not allow books. “She ran past with her body stiff, her face floured with powder, her mouth gone, without lipstick. ‘Mildred you didn’t put in the alarm!’ She shoved in the valise in the waiting beetle, climbed in and sat mumbling, ‘Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything gone, everything gone now…’”(114). Mildred turned in Montag to the firehouse for having books. Mildred knew the consequences of what will happen when she puts in the alarm. Everything in the house will be destroyed along with the parlors that she loves. Also, Montag is going to be arrested for possessing books but Mildred still decides to report Montag because she wants her

In our 21st century today, it is somewhat precise to how Ray Bradbury portrayed the future in his novel “Fahrenheit 451.” Mildred Montag’s fate really matches up to the people in our society. Mildred, like many people today, are constantly on their technology devices and having no interest in the outside world. If more and more people in our word become like Mrs. Montag, then we will start losing interest in people and the world outside of technology.

To start off, a huge aspect of Fahrenheit 451 would be the media’s representation of displaying things as ‘perfect’. This brainwashing presence of the media in the novel can be shown through the parlor screen walls(‘television screen’), along with alluring advertisements of toothpaste. In the world of Montag, everyone seems to be so absorbed on their television to the point where even real-life interactions are non-existent. This example is hugely shown through Montag’s wife, Mildred who has an obsession with a ‘t.v show’ she called “the family” with whom she interacts and talks with. “The family”, or the actors on the screen, are shown to have a happy and fun life filled with funny situations and cheesy lines. When in actuality, Mildred is unhappy as disconnects herself from her personal relationship with her husband, Montag and shows to be more focused on the people on the parlor wall instead. An example of this is shown when Mildred ignores Montag’s question about her overdose and instead tells him to install another parlor wall in their home, so their living room would be like “all kinds of exotic people’s rooms”(21). Her insistence on having another parlor wall reveals a desire to be in another alternate world, or exotic room, rather than the reality, or the house she dwells in. In addition to parlor walls, the tendency display things as ‘perfect’ in the media of Montag’s society are also shown in advertisements. A

Within Fahrenheit 451, the absence of human interaction causes the people to be disbanded from their own community and fail to see how their own rights are being violated. Mildred, Montag’s wife, is completely detached from the world around her. She can not perceive let alone recognize the things that are happening to her. A usual occurrence in Montag's house is that Mildred believes that the people within a reality television show, are her real family, and she talks to them. Montag begins to be annoyed with what is

Albert Einstein said, “ I fear that one day technology will surpass our human interaction, the world will have a generation of idiots.” Einstein highlights the use of how technology can cause people to ignore each other and their surroundings. In Fahrenheit 451, people in this society are affected by technology causing them to have trouble communicating with each other. We all know that technology also helps people in some ways. In the story Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, he uses the indirect characterization of Mildred’s actions and Montag’s concerns to illustrate their lack of interaction leading to Montag’s loss of self worth.

Today, teens are spending one third of their day using technology according to a new study released by Common Sense Media. That is a whole nine hours spent mindlessly surfing the web or watching cat videos. In the science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury writes a social commentary on what the future may look like if technology continues to be overused. In his dystopia, all books are banned and the government controls almost every aspect of people’s lives by brainwashing them with technology. Firemen burn down people’s houses who have books, Guy Montag being one of them. Slowly, Montag starts to question his society and steal books, to the dismay of his technology obsessed wife, Mildred. Bradbury uses Mildred as a symbol of societal corruption to highlight the dangers of excessively using technology.

When Montag asked Mildred “ ‘Will you turn the parlor off?’ Mildred replied ‘That’s my family.’ ‘I’ll turn it down.’ She went out of the room and did nothing to the parlor and came back. ‘Is that better’” (46)?

One way she shows that she is not happy is that she tries to commit suicide one day by over dosing on sleeping pills while Montag is at work. Montag comes home to find her laying on the floor passed out and an empty bottle of sleeping pills beside her. He calls 911 and two men come to his house wearing nonstainable reddish-brown coveralls and two specially made machines. They came to pump her stomach and clean her blood. The two men pumped her stomach and thought nothing of it. Critic Edward Eller says, “They act as casually as handymen doing a fix-it-up job (2).” As the men’s machines are doing the work one of the men who is talking to Montag and says, “Hell! We get these cases nine or ten a night (15).” This shows that it is not only Mildred that is unhappy but many other people in the society of Fahrenheit 451. Also she considers the people in her soap operas to be her real family and not her husband. She can not even remember when she and Montag met. She gets depressed when she can not watch her television shows and wants Montag to buy her another wall so she can have all 4 walls for television.

Society can change a person positively or negatively. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the society is focused around technology. This has made people selfish, robotic, unfeeling, distant, and many more things. For example, Mildred, Montag’ s wife, was affected by society it made her selfish, robotic, and unfeeling.

In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Montag is an individual that the conformists of the society fear. The towns obedience to the law that bans knowledge and books alters the way Montag feels about the world he lives in. Unlike everyone else in the story, the books intrigue Montag and make him want to rebel and go against the law. Montag decides to step outside the bubble of conformity and steal a couple of books. One day, when Montag's wife has guests over he reads a line from the book to the guests and they don't react well to it. “Mrs.Bowles stood up and glared at Montag. You see? I knew it would happen! I’ve always said, poetry and tears, poetry and sickness; all that mush. Now I’ve had it proved to me. Youre nasty Mr.Montag, you're nasty.” (Page 97). Mildred and her friends are the perfect conformists in the story. Since it is a social norm to hate and despise books in their society, all of the women including Mrs. Bowles act appalled by the reading of the book because it is what is expected of them, and it is what is the normal thing to do. In a society where social norms are extremely valued anyone who does otherwise seems monstrous. In this scene, Montag seems like a monster to Mildred and her friends because he holds onto the one thing that everyone in the town is supposed to be afraid of. As human beings, we pick up social cues and align with the behavior around us. Mildred and her friends are so intrigued by conformity because it gives them a sense of relief and lessens the risk of judgment and denial from others. Beatty is the head firefighter and holds a lot of power in the society. Beatty wants a world where there are no

Technology has been on the rise the past few years and isn’t going to stop for anyone. The book "Fahrenheit 451" written by Ray Bradbury has some prime examples of why technology or social media shouldn't exist. In this story books are burned and banned all around. Everything has to do with technology and social media, and the fact that books are too old school. What Bradbury is trying to show is that if you don't stop technology in its tracks right now, it will start to eat you alive in the future. The main character in this book is a man named Guy Montag, and along side him his wife Mildred. Mildred is an odd character in this book and is

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings” -Henrich Hein. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Mildred, Montag’s wife, and Clarisse McClellan are two very opposing characters. Clarisse thinks and acts “outside of the box” Where as Mildred rather stays in the box; she goes with the flow of their society. Although Clarisse McClellan and Mildred are very different, they both are very significant in Montag’s life; they have positive and negative affects on him.

A dystopia can be defined as an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.Montag realizes something needs to change and he goes against everything the government has told him. Montag is forced to burn his own house containing books and when his friend is threatened to go down with him Montag feels forced to commit murder against his fire captain, Beatty. While he is on the run, he realizes something about Beatty: “Beatty wanted to die” (Bradbury 116). Beatty is a character, emphasizing the need to destroy books and follow the rules set in place by the government. However, even he was not happy living this life. The actuality that even society’s most upright citizen realizes the flaws in the system gives the reader an idea of how amiss the culture of society is in the novel. Technology plays a large role in the culture and daily life in Fahrenheit 451. Advanced technology consumes the character’s minds and most have materialistic tendencies. They spend their day watching shows that they can participate with from their wall-TVs, and Montag’s wife, Mildred, is no different. Montag tries to confront his wife about her suicide attempt, but she ignores the question and starts to talk about her the wall-TVs: “It’ll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up

The book “Fahrenheit 451” is a powerful dystopian novel written by famous author Ray Bradbury, it was about a fireman named Guy Montag. Through the key events of this novel we find out about the character of Guy Montag. Firstly Montag does the complete opposite from what regular firemen do. He starts fires instead of putting them out. Books in Montag society are forbidden to read and if caught reading the books would be set on fire, which may suggest that this society is very ignorant by neglecting books, which are one of the most abundant sources of information. Freedom of information or media has been eliminated. Instead of reading, that society watches large amounts of television which are so big they cover the walls and listens to the radio with earphones in their ears. It was not normal for pedestrians to talk and have meaningful conversations until Montag met a teenager name Clarisse. Clarisse was a strange girl that opened up Montag thoughts. Montag believed that Clarisse was odd. She wasn’t like the norm of the society. She walked around the city like a pedestrian and, had meaningful conversations. After that encounter with Clarisse a number of events started to happen to Montag, he started to have a change in character and started thinking and questioning things, his wife Mildred tried to commit suicide with sleeping pills, a woman that hid books in her home decides to burn alive with her books, and Clarisse is killed in a car accident. Through some of these key