Similarities Between Fahrenheit 451 And Clarisse

And the colors!" (Bradbury 69). This quote from Mildred explains to readers that her priority of technology over books has benefited her and she does not need books because her television seems to provide her enough and she does not need anything thing else. This message and its relation to Mildred gives readers an example of what could happen if they allow technology and destructive tools to overtake their mind. When Montag realizes he has not seen Clarisse for several days, he asks Mildred if she has seen her and Mildred replies by saying, "Run over by a car.

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

In Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse McClellan, is a seventeen year old girl who lives next door to Guy Montag. Clarisse met Montag when she was walking down the street, she looked at him surprised. Clarisse's appearance is mentioned as curious, because she is called as white. “..Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity..”, “Her dress was white and it whispered”. (Bradbury 02) By comparing from the book, Clarisse can be someone who won’t “fit in” the book. She is more than a seventeen year old girl, she is filled with ideas and questions. Her character is different from everyone in the book, she was more positive and uplifting.

The theme of knowledge vs. ignorance is present in the differences between Mildred and Clarisse. These foil characters are a perfect example of how both knowledge and ignorance are displayed in Montag’s society. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Mildred explains the new parlor wall technology after Montag tries to convince her that she overdosed on pills the night before, “Well, this play comes on the wall-to- wall circuit in ten minutes. They mailed me my part this morning. I sent in some box stops. They write the script with one part missing. It’s a new idea. The homemaker, that’s me, is the missing part. When it comes time for the missing lines, they all look at me out of the three walls and I say the lines” (Bradbury 17). As presented in this piece of text, you can see that the technology plays a huge role in MIldred’s life and often consumes her, distracting her from the things that truly matter. Throughout the novel, the society’s reliance on technology leads to a devastating chasm of ignorance, but others in the society refuse to conform to their piers ways. Clarisse McClellan is a great example of knowledge from the novel Fahrenheit 451. When speaking to Montag about how others believe she is “antisocial” because of her “unusual ways”, Clarisse says, “I rarely watch the ‘parlor walls’ or go to races or Fun Parks. So I’ve had lots of time for crazy thoughts, I guess. Have you seen the two-hundred-foot-long billboards in the country beyond town? Did you know once billboards were only twenty feet long? But cars starting rushing by so quickly they had to stretch the advertising out so it would last” (Bradbury 7). Though Clarisse is a part of a society full of distractions, she doesn’t let those things take away from her inquisitive personality. Through her short amount of time in the story, she teaches Montag to look for the details and to absorb as much knowledge as he can because in this society, because it is very hard to come across. There are many other ways that knowledge and ignorance are presented in Fahrenheit 451.

In Fahrenheit 451, “family” has some similarities and differences with the type of “family” we have in our world. “Family” in the book is similar to family in our world because it gives us happiness. The differences in our family and the “family” in the story is that ours is real people that we can touch and talk to face to face. Also, the “family” in the book is on a television, that people watch to distance themselves from others that make them unhappy. Family in this novel is a relationship without love or emotions. Clarisse’s family was the only one in the book to have those two attributes because they had knowledge of the past. Therefore, our views of family has some differences and similarities with the “family” in Fahrenheit 451.

Tiffany Castano English II Honors 10/27/2014 Part 1 TBQ’s 1. In Fahrenheit 451 the firemen burn books for a living. Clarisse asks Montag if its true firemen used to put out fires and he tells her that's not true, that houses were always fireproof and firemen always burned books. 2.

Clarisse wanted to be happy and live a life where books and uniqueness and creativity were not judged by others, or outlawed. This was a proven issue from two quotes from Fahrenheit 451; “I’ve got to go see my psychiatrist now. They make me go. I make up things to say” (Bradbury 20), and “... I go out and hike around the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies…” (Bradbury 20).

She is a round and dynamic character since she is always doing new things and helping other people out. She changed Montag’s view of life in a matter of days, making him feel emotions he had not felt in a long time and changed his point of view about books. She is a free spirit, constantly moving around and doing something different to have fun. She is viewed as being antisocial because asking questions, talking to other people, thinking, or even being a pedestrian outside is viewed as different. “I tell them sometimes I just sit and think...I’ve got them running,” (23). She tells Montag she is afraid of other kids her age because they kill each other and do not care if they are hurting anyone else (30). She enjoys being outside and pays attention to details such as the dew on the ground in the morning and thinks people cannot tell what grass looks like because it is all a blur as they drive by. “There's dew on the grass in the morning,” (9). She is a threat to the ideas about society in the novel because she is more complex than everyone else. She does not believe life is all about watching television and sitting home all day (9). Clarisse McClellan may have a small part in this novel, but her thoughts and actions affected everyone

There are only a couple of similarities between these two characters, one being that they both kept their name, second, being that they are both talkative, third being that they both go to a school, fourth being they live next to Montag, etc. These however, are just small details, and not huge things that change the story. Mildred’s, Montag’s wife, name changes, and it doesn't effect the story. So the only similarities between young Clarisse and old Clarisse are small details that don’t change much of the story whatsoever. So, let’s move

This shows that nobody in Clarisse's world is unique or different from each other and that everyone acts identical, whereas everyone is unique and different in our society. According to Bradbury, Montag asks, “When did we meet? And where?” (Bradbury, 40) He asks this to his wife, Mildred, but neither knew when nor where they met. Knowing full well that they are husband and wife, this is quite concerning. This is because in our world, forgetting where someone met their partner is absurd and unimaginable. Nobody ever forgets when or where they met their spouse because this event is a sacred and unforgettable moment for a couple. Since Montag and Mildred forgot how they met, they have no mutual love or respect for each other, and they did not really care about each other. Those are some differences, but when it comes to behavior, that is where the differences end between the two societies. In Fahrenheit 451, the people regularly watch the TV screens all day, so much so that they are calling the parlors their family. At one part, Mildred says, ”That’s my family.” She said this after Montag asked her to turn down the volume because he was sick (Bradbury, 46). Our society has not called our electronics family, but we treat our electronics like family

Clarisse makes you question why you can not read books and why they burn them. She also makes you question why they are so restricted. She said " 'It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not' “. This makes you wonder why society tells

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 Clarisse changes Montag in many different ways, one way Clarisse changes Montag is she makes him realize how unhappy he is with his marriage and how dark his marriage has been throughout the years. Another important role that Clarisse changes Montag is she makes Montag start to question the world he is living in and question the reality of the society. Before Clarisse entered Montag’s neighborhood, Montag lived life like every other person in his society. But Clarisse starts to stir up Montag’s everyday living and is now becoming a part of his life and his daily living. Later in the story Clarisse starts to disappear from Montag’s street and begins not to show up at the corner where they always meet at. Montag comes home one day and asks his wife Mildred if she has seen any sign of

There are many similarities in society from all these books and plays but I think the most known and easy to connect are from “Fahrenheit 451”. That may also be because that book is the most fresh in my mind. Anyway, Mildred is a great example because, think of the way she thinks about characters on the TV how she knows them and loves them. She believes they are real people. People today surrounded themselves with screens to hide from life, I know this because I do it and know many others that also do it. Also, there is a line in “Fahrenheit 451” that I love, “Here we go to keep the world happy, Montag” Beatty said. I love that line because of the way they are keeping the world happy. They think they are doing the right think, that this is

The first similarity between Mary and Mildred is they are both ignorant to situations in their life. For example, in Fahrenheit 451 Mildred is acting like she didn’t try to kill herself the night before and had to get her stomach pumped. Montag said,

Patrick and mildred are both normal to society. In fact mildred didn't put in the alarm. “Mildred you didn't put in the alarm!”(114). As a result Mildred is trying to set up montag and Mildred is showing she is conforming to society by rejecting books and turning montag into the fireman. Another key point is when mary ends up killing partick with a frozen lamb leg from the freezer that she was planning to cook from Patrick. “Mary simply went up to him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb”(382). Patrick was trying to explain why he was leaving but instead Mary didn't really understand and didn’t want to and then decides to sack him in the head with the leg and he drops and she realized she actually killed her precious husband. That shows patrick is normal to society and mary isnt because its not normal to kill your husband that you love. Clarisse did not conform to society because she died with her house because she was caught with books so she burned with them. “Whole family