Examples Of Mildred In Fahrenheit 451

Lead: Another example of how Mildred had changed Montag’s life due to the parlor families is when Clarisse passed away.

A difference between Mildred and Clarisse is their polar opposite personalities. Throughout Fahrenheit 451, Mildred is a very selfish, conceited woman. This is shown when she talks about herself to Montag. “He opened the book. ‘That Favorite Subject, Myself’ … ‘I understand that one,’ said Mildred.” (Bradbury 72). Mildred's comment exemplifies her conceited attitude toward herself. She dislikes books yet chooses that one to relate to. In contrast to Mildred, Clarisse is a selfless, caring girl. There’s a lot of examples of Clarisse being selfless, but a big one is when Montag talks about her to Mildred. “But Clarisse’s favorite subject wasn’t herself. It was everyone else, and me … She was the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted.” (Bradbury 72). Montag explains Clarisse's selfless side very well. He knows from experience that she loved others more than herself. These two contrasting examples prove that Mildred and Clarisse have different personalities. But, personalities aside, they have differing values as well.

They should be the best partner to each other. However, when Mildred is with that TV wall everyday, That TV became her the second unreal family and more interesting. She was addicted to TV, Montag became not essential any more. She just “enjoyed’ that TV shows everyday. And she still wanted to use all Montag’s money to get another TV wall. That’s ill for me and Montag. Montag trusts Mildred every time, he tries his best to get Mildred out of the dependent for TV shows. Montag saved her wife’s life from over using sleeping pills. He did the most dangerous thing at that time to the person who he trusts the most: share a book with Mildred and read to her and her friends. Why? Because Montag trust her as his family, family is the closest unit on the earth. But it seems like Mildred had another opinion for that. She called the fireman to burning her house, I think the funny reason must be she did not want to get any trouble because of Montag. Mildred’s everyday plan was just watching TV shows and live. She does not care anyone around her, she doesn’t care if Clarisse is died or not, or Appreciate to the people who saved her life! That’s the selfish showed right

Fahrenheit 451 is a science-fiction book written by the popular American author, Ray Bradbury. The main character of the novel is Guy Montag, a person who lives in a world where books are burned and censorship is an issue in their society. The plight of the society Guy Montag lives in was that his government was forcibly changing people’s views to form a communist society. In the beginning of Fahrenheit 451 Montag was a conformist and went along with everything that the government was trying to pursue without questioning anything, but throughout the book, Montag develops from an antagonist to a non-conformist who began to question the world he lived in. Throughout the book I observed the way Montag’s point of view changes ever so drastically. Montag’s new mindset led him to question his open mindedness. Questioning his society and

However, they both have an important role in both types of fahrenheit 451. Clarisse’s role is to ask Montag questions to make him realize that the society isn’t good for him. In the book, Clarisse’s death is important because it makes Montag realize that what she was saying about the society was right nevertheless, they didn’t kill Clarisse in the movie. So in the end, Mildred’s/Linda’s role was very akin to Clarisse’s role. Her role was to help him realize that the society was bad by being the example.

According to the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Rollo May’s quote “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity” is inaccurate because for what these people in the society conformed to, is a coward act on it’s own. To go ahead and follow something you don’t have knowledge on with the stakes so high and then not give others a voice when they bring viewpoints that differ to what you originally conformed to, is known as a cowardly act. Conforming is just a cover up stuck in ignorance and stubbornness, an excuse for cowardice.

Cameron Ghaferi Mr. Spencer English II 21 May 2024 Literary Devices in Fahrenheit 451 and Their Contribution to Theme In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses vivid imagery, metaphor, and allusion to convey that without strong roots in reality, society is destined to fail. In the beginning of the novel, Guy Montag is introduced as a fireman of the future who enjoys his role of burning illegal books. However, after coming across young, self-declared crazy Clarisse McClellan, he begins to question his supposed happiness. He is forced to watch a woman burn herself alive with her books, and suddenly he feels that there must be something to read if someone will die for it. Montag steals a book from the woman’s house, and later reveals a large stash of books in his own

Montag had never relisted how the society around him had changed. One thing that does not really change throughout the whole story is that there are very few happy people in his book. Clarisse is one of the few people who expresses himself like when she told Montag she liked him(13). This just shows how Clarisse can be happy and tell people how she feels. Mildred had a “small bottle of sleeping tablets..” that had been full that morning(6).

Juan Ramon Jimenez once said, “If they give you ruled paper, write the other way”. This quote shows the challenge of authority, like Montag and his society. Just like challenging the normal, or doing the opposite of what seems to be right by “writing the other way” on a lined piece of paper, Montag chooses to challenge authority by reading, remembering, and comprehending books, instead of burning them. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury takes place in a dystopian society in the twenty-fourth century and the main character is Guy Montag. He is a fireman whose job is to burn books and start fires instead of putting them out. Moreover, he lives in a society which just listens to government propaganda and follows whatever they are told; the citizens do not think deeply about aspects in life but rather focus on mind-numbing activities, that does not take any deep thought process. Books are banned but Montag takes the risk to start to read books, hoping they will bring him happiness in the dark world he lives in. In his journey he has three mentors who help him, Clarisse, Faber, and Granger. The protagonist, Guy Montag, changes as a result of the conflict within his dystopian society and this change connects to the novel’s theme of government censorship over its citizens.

Of the characters of Fahrenheit 451 Clarisse Mcclellan and Mildred Montag stand out most prominently because of their pronounced contrast. On one hand Mildred Montag is the obedient citizen who would rather watch

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury follows Guy Montag, a fireman whos occupation consists not of putting fires out, but of starting them in order to eradicate all works of literature from his futuristic American community. Montag has a realization of the emptiness in his life and of the power of literature through the help of Clarisse, Montag’s young and inspirational neighbor, and Faber, Montag’s partner in their plan to reintroduce literature to society. The novel becomes an instrument for the emphasis of the power of literature and how its serves as a tool for information, pleasure, and protection of society’s future by remembering the past. Through a destructive society and the symbol of fire, Bradbury highlights literature’s

Almost everyone at the beginning of the story were weak minded and self evolved. Mildred is one of the main victims who just wanted more than what they had and weren't satisfied until they got it. Montag built Mildred a three TV parlor, but that wasn't good enough for her so any chance she got she tried to complain. The people in Fahrenheit 451 have no emotion at all, Mildred told Montag that Clarisse died a week after it happened and she was so nonchalant about it because it has been just another death and that wasn't her main priority, she was focused on getting a new

The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction novel placed in the future. The plot of the story is about a firefighter named Montag in a futuristic city where firefighters start fires instead of extinguishing them. He starts to read books although it is illegal and realizes many truths in the society. Montag kills his fire chief and meets intellectuals by the railroads. They watch as the city is destroyed and go back to rebuild society. Beatty is Montag’s fire chief and boss. He is invested in getting rid of books, although he himself reads. Faber is a former english professor who maintains a low profile and also reads books. He helps Montag understand them. In Fahrenheit 451

The succinct stupidity that the characters of the naiveté groups in both novels have is reasoning for why characters are being able to be oppressed by characters like Beatty and Napoleon. Mildred is foolish because

In the first half of the book Bradbury demonstrates the theme through showing the emotions of others regarding to other people, focusing on Mildred in particular. In the beginning of the book Montag runs into Clarisse, a person who is not like the rest and cares about the deeper meanings. He grew fond of her, later to find out that he would never see her again, since she was dead. The news was given by Mildred in a way that seemed unpresented sympathy, “‘Four days ago. I’m not sure. But I think she’s dead. The family moved out anyway. I don’t know. But I think she’s dead,’” (44). Mildred delivers the news late and without any sympathy, instead she is unsure if her information is true. She was ignorant to how Montag felt about Clarisse; numb to the pain and this was only a product of society and their need to hide this stress in order to preserve contentment. For instance they programmed behaviors into the different ‘families’ that other homeowners own, to normalize happier emotions while sadder, melancholic emotions were discouraged to the point that it was a surprise that people felt this way in any other setting than the presence of an illegal action. This false idea of what is human became