Mildred In 'Fahrenheit 451'

In regards to why Mildred did not know or acknowledge the disconnect between her and Montag, the most influential one is her reliance to technology. An example of Mildred’s dependency to technology is the quote “And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time.”

(MIP-1) The society is obsessed with the idea of buying and playing with stuff. (SIP-A) In their minds, the empty void these people have can be filled by items, because items equals happiness, and happiness fills the void. (STEWE-1) Whenever Mildred feels unhappy, she drives fast cars. When Montag, the main character, feels frustrated, Mildred says “‘I always like to drive fast when I feel that way. You get it up around ninety-five and you feel wonderful. Sometimes I drive all night and come back and you don’t even know it. It’s fun out in the country. You hit rabbits, sometimes you hit dogs’”(Bradbury 61). Clearly, Mildred is obsessed with her dangerous, fast car because she associates her vehicle with happiness. (STEWE-2) All Mildred cares about is getting the fourth wall for her TV

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.

You would think that in a society like the one in Fahrenheit 451, everyone would be similar. That's not the case for Mildred Montag and Clarisse McClellan. Throughout the book, Mildred and Clarisse show multiple traits of themselves that are very different. They're not similar in almost anything. During Fahrenheit 451, Mildred and Clarisse are completely opposite people and that is shown in the differences in their personality, values, and relationship with Montag.

It was revealed that Mildred and her friends are the people that reported Montag to the firemen. Earlier, Montag offended Mildred’s friends by reading a melachony poem that caused emotion. Mildred did not stay loyal to her husband and instead reports him to the government, abiding to society. The main rift in their relationship was that they are on opposite sides of society, Mildred is very devoted while Montag challenges the society standards. Deep down, she knows that if she is instead devoted to her husband then her life would go down the drain. She would lose everything including her ‘family’ and therefore has no hestiation in turning against

(Bradbury,25) Mildred's character is interesting because she subverts all expectations of what a relationship in a marriage should look like.

She shoved the valise in the waiting beetle climbed in, and sat mumbling, ‘Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now…” (112). Eventually Mildred had enough with Montag prying her opinions, so she decided to leave. Mildred wasn’t willing to

In the midst of Montag’s self-discovery Millie was still willing to put her popularity status among her friends over her husband. After a confusing day of reading Mildred invited her friends over and allowed them to criticize him. “You’re nasty, Mr. Montag, you’re nasty!”(Bradbury 107). Rather than standing up for Montag she stood by her friends and later even turned him into the fire station. “Was it my wife who turned in the alarm? Beatty nodded”(Bradbury 117). Mildred was so heartless and disconnected to her real family she was willing to sell out her own husband without thinking of what would happen to Montag. As she left her home moments before its destruction the only thing she was upset about was her TV family. Mildred’s character perfectly represents the archetype of a cold wife as she is deceitful, unloving, materialistic, and

Books have been outlawed, but some citizens refuse to follow the rules. In this novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury tells the story of Guy Montag and his fight against the government. As the story unravels Montag finds himself wanting to read books not burn them. Throughout the story Bradbury uses Mildred and Clarisse as an influence for Montag. Montag's job makes him burn books to earn money, but throughout the book Montag learns the importants of books and the wonderful information inside them.

(AGG) There may have been a time when you were watching TV but you didn't want to stop. (BS-1) A character in the society of the novel Fahrenheit 451 who is like this, is Mildred, she doesn’t ever want to separate from her TV, or her so called ‘family’. (BS-2) Mildred is only an example, almost all of the people in the society are similar to how she is. (BS-3) Still, there are others who are sensible and aware that this is happening, they are the ones who help Montag to understand what is wrong in the society. (TS) Most people in the society are harming themselves by over-using technology, making them want to avert away from reality.

The constructs of Mildred’s society have led to her being socially distant from others, created a depressed state of mind she wishes to hide from herself and others. Mildred is an example of the type of citizen the government wishes to handle, essentially led by a leash directed by politicians. Mildred spends her days watching television, allowing her to engage in a whole new world which gives her the opportunity to escape the depressions she faces in reality. She has become more attached to the family she sees on the television than Guy and this is shown when she chooses to pay more attention to the show being displayed in the parlour than her sick husband. When Guy asks Mildred to turn the parlour off, she says that she will turn it down but the reader is told “She went out of the room and did nothing to the parlour and came back” (Bradbury 46), which clearly demonstrates that in Mildred’s opinion, the parlour outweighs the wishes of her husband. On the outside, Mildred seems content with her way of life but her suicide attempt clearly illustrates a more broken side to her that she does not want to show others. Mildred is not the only person facing this internal struggle as shown when the medical operator sent to revive Mildred says “We get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had the special machines built” (13). The society shown in the novel is dealing with an abundance of suicide attempts, leading the reader to consider the idea that oppression and lack of freedom create an environment where this sort of depression is possible. Mildred’s decision to overlook her suicide attempt shows ignorance for her feelings and this is directly related to her mindless watching of the television. The alternate world she chooses to engulf herself with allows her to neglect her own feelings and move on so

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