Literary Devices In Fahrenheit 451

Society can change a person in a negatively or positively. Mildred is the wife of the main character, Guy Montag, in the novel Fahrenhelt 451, by Ray Bradbury. Society has made Mildred self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling.

Mildred is the wife of Montag. She has many different interests than Montag does which makes them foil characters. There is nothing very spectacular about Mildred. She is very bland and is obsessed with television. She believs that her family is the television shows. Montag on the other hand is appreciates books. Mildred says to Montag, “See what you are doing to us? You’ll ruin us!” (76). This quote shows that Mildred does not appreciate what Montag wants. She does not respect his interests and does not want to be married to someone who is doing illegal acts. Montag sees the books as a good thing and as an innspiration. Mildred sees them as

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.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury states the negative effects of technology. Bradbury illustrates a society where books are banned and people entertain themselves with parlor walls, which is a TV. One of the characters Mildred, who is the wife of Montag, a fireman who is paid to burn books. Mildred is always attached to technology and can’t get away from it. She is usually watching the parlor or listening to her seashell earbuds. Bradbury uses the literary element of indirect characterization on Mildred to suggest how she is selfish and thoughtless, examining the negative effects of technology when one constantly uses it and relies on it which causes obsession and over-reliance towards technology leading one to not think critically

Mildred is Guy’s wife which loves to watch TV and hates to express herself. She tried to commit suicide and can't even acknowledge it. Montag says, “‘You took all the pills in your bottle last night.’ Mildred responds quickly “Oh I wouldn't do that’”(19). Masking your pain will get you far away from happiness. You need to acknowledge and change for the better. Since Mildred never wanted to talk about her relationship with Guy. This makes Guy angry and can not clear his mind about something they do not talk about as well as Mildred, senselessly that is a part of her pain. It will not go away till she confronts it. Guy says, “No one listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me. I just need someone to hear what I have to say, it’ll make sense. I just want to learn how to read”(14). This goes to show that he has been distracted by the fact that she is obviously miserable and is crying out for help with her attempt of suicide. Montag is realising that the books might make him closer to his happiness.

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

Metaphor/Inference: Mildred represents the corrupt society since she is the epitome of everything that the rest of society do and is the opposite of Clarisse.

In conclusion, Montag and Mildred is very different in not only one way it is way more than just one

Authors use literary as devices such irony, foreshadowing,or flashbacks to help develop the theme of a story. Novels such as Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, use these literary devices to elaborate on and support one common theme. Even short stories such as “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury use literary devices to make their stories and plots more interesting and to develop their themes. Literary devices are an important part of writing and an essential part of any plot, story, or theme.

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

In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, a retired English teacher named Faber convinced us all of the three missing components of the set society and possibly in our own, “Number one, as I said, quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number 3: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.” (81). His first argument was the quality of information, in this case, he was referring to how books hold documentation of independent ideas and newly webbed thoughts, the two things that the government appears to look down on. Creativity seems to be spun into this label of abnormality, where all are expected to be equal resulting in those of high intelligence not being able to live up to their full potential, and

One of the most important literary elements is imagery because it helps me understand the story better by putting a picture in my head. When Bradbury describes how "Books bombarded his shoulder, his arms, his upturned face"(Bradbury 34) it shows the crazy events. This puts a picture in my mind of the scene that Montag and the other firemen were surrounded by books and it was very hectic. This was put in all throughout the book to show the action in an interesting way. In another example Montag sees a book with "a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather, the words delicately painted thereon." (Bradbury 34) the author makes it seem like this book a gift. This helps me understand the story because Bradbury portrayed the to be appealing

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).

Firstly, before one can understand how Mildred is misinterpreted, common misunderstandings have to be debunked. Because a single opinion of Mildred has become accepted as fact, any available information about her offers a one-sided, unflattering view, leaving little space for different interpretations. While popular reference sites often at least suggest that Mildred might not be entirely two-dimensional, they are closed to further exploration. Shmoop is the best example of this, referring to Mildred as “The epitome of the status-quo” (Shmoop Editorial Team) and “kind-of dumb” (Shmoop Editorial Team). These claims are easy to disprove. Despite her “stupidity”, when Montag goes off on a tangent that nearly exposes his book-harbouring to several guests, Mildred plans the same cover-up as Faber (a respected professor), except full seconds faster. This is exhibited in the following quote: