Fahrenheit 451 Society Quotes

He later finds an empty bottle of sleeping pills by her bedside and immediately calls the hospital. Two men come to help Mildred to set her up to a machine to give her new blood. While the men are there, they tell Montag that suicide is a common thing in their society. Montag then realizes that the men aren't real medical doctors and asks why the M.D. didn’t come to help. One of the men says “We get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many starting a few years ago, we had the machines built.” page 15. This makes Montag realize that people are not happy and feel the need to take their own lives, making him wonder, what is life and why is it so full of dread and

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

Mildred was a shy woman who became a reluctant activist in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s when she and her husband, Richard Loving, successfully challenged Virginia 's ban on interracial marriage. Mildred didn’t want to become an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, because

Mildred is seen to be immensely emotionless and does not have an ounce of remorse in her body. When Montag brought up the topic of deaths, she would talk very nonchalant and was loose over the matter. Mildred is deemed to be empty inside. Her mind, emotions, and life all show to consist of nothing. This issue makes Montag question their relationship. He begins to wonder if the woman who he has been married to for ten years was truly the woman who he thought she was. For instance, Mildred did not even know where they met for the first time.

Montag’s Wife, Mildred, is a negative influence on him, trying to push him away emotionally and physically. She does not know who she really is and lives in an illusionary world with her obsession of television shows and believing they are real. He is so confused because she tries to ignore it ever happened thinking about all the bad things; “fire, sleeping tablets, men disposable tissue, coattails, blow, wad, flush...Rain. The storm. The uncle laughing...The whole world pouring down..." (19). After this incident he looks at Mildred in a different light and is someone who he can’t relate to. Another way she separates herself from Montag is through her "family", which is a television show. Montag constantly asks Millie “[if that] family loves [her]… love [her] with all their heart and soul" (83). Her world isn’t based in reality; they are clearly on different paths. Hers is one of illusion and his is becoming that of a totally self-aware person. She blocks everything and everyone out that is around her and lives within the show. Mildred opens Montag 's eyes to the real world and shows him that most people are uncaring and narcissistic.

Mildred, even though was someone that lacked excitement and interesting things, still was one of the biggest and most influential characters in the entire novel. Her purpose was not to only show the reader how a normal citizen would act and think, but to make them understand how someone could do such tremendous things after being brainwashed and believed to be someone that had no potential or reason in life.

After reading Captain Beatty’s speech you can tell Mildred has changes. She has been changed in many different ways, some good and some bad. Society has made her self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling. First she had changed in ways to be more self-centered. On page 18 in the book Fahrenheit 451, the book says, “‘It’s only two thousand dollars.’

Another way to show that people don’t read like Mildred are going to make poor decision that can hurt them big time. “And were so dopey you kept right on until you had thirty or forty of them in you.” “What would I want to go and do a silly thing like that for?”(Bradbury 19). Montag tries to tell Mildred but she doesn’t believe she would do something like that. People underestimate the outcome of the things they do and think bad things won’t ever happen to

“We burnt an old woman with her books”... “It’s a good thing the rug is washable” Mildred just completely disregards what Montag says and immediately wants to start talking about her parlour wall family. She seems to lack any interest in advertising with Montag. This is creating an unhealthy relationship. Mildred is having relations with a family that doesn’t even exist and is completely spaced.

Montag questions Mildred on how they met and she just brushes the question off saying that it was “funny… not to remember where or when you met your husband or wife” when they had been married for so long (43). The fact that Mildred does not care to remember how she met her own husband shows how she is oblivious to everything around her including Montag. In Contrast to facing her problems, Mildred gets in her car and “push[es] [the speed] up to one hundred and five miles an hour” not caring about the animals she

Mildred had a shocking event in her life called suicide. One day she took a bottle of pills, and the next day when she was better her husband told her about that horrible event, but she said that she never try to commit suicide, she denied it more than one time again and again (Bradbury 17). It was obvious that she had a problem, most of the times depressed people are victims of suicide, and depression is a disease. Probably her superficial relationship with her husband affected her life at this point. Maybe her obsession with television represents the interaction that she did not have with her husband also she saw a family through one program (hoping and imagine that that family was part of her life), probably in her interior and with the

Mildred lives her life wanting to seek pleasure and mindless entertainment. Instead of interacting with Guy Montag, her husband,

In this book Mildred is self-centered because she wants Montag to do whatever she says or makes her happy. Not even caring about how he feels about it. Like in the story when Mildred found out about him liking bowling and all those other sports she got upset because it didn't require him to think so she left and slammed the door. Also in Ray Bradbury’s book he wasn't feeling good and wanted a break from work plus he didn’t like it. Mildred got upset and said “what are we going to do without a job” Completely not listening to him.

One of the important stereotypical characters that Bradbury incorporated in his novel is Mildred because she represents how living a life of ignorance leads to a life that lacks meaning. She is a stereotypical character in that she is just like every other ordinary citizen in this society. These citizens are people who never read or think for themselves; instead, they entertain themselves by watching TV. In life, there are a couple of important events that are so significant that people are just, in a way, expected to remember them; however, when Mildred experiences these types of events, her life lacks so much meaning that she fails to remember them. For example, this is shown in a conversation between Mildred and Montag discussing their relationship: “‘The first time we ever met, where was it, and when?’ ‘Why it was at-’ she stopped. ‘I don’t know.’ she said” (40).

First, one reason is when MIldred is self-centered because when Montag asked her to do something she refused. Montag asked “Go let him in, will you? Tell him I’m sick.” She replied back with “Tell him yourself.” Mildred didn’t listen to Montag because she didn’t want to. She only does what she wants. She also didn’t listen when he told her no. I don’t want my pillow fluffed, but she was almost one hundred percent on her decision.