Symbolism Of Mildred In Fahrenheit 451

(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

Katherine and Mildred are so alike in the ways everyone would think: but when you dig deeper you can see just how different they may be. Both Katharine and Mildred, two character from 1984 by George Orwell and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, are ignorant women married to the main characters of the novels: Winston Smith, from 1984, and Guy Montag, from Fahrenheit 451. The women seem almost identical in going through their bland lives everyday talking to the relatives and listening to the telescreen, but in some ways they are polar opposites. Through their personality, relationship with their husband, and relationship with the government, they share major differences and key similarities.

The author reveals a character named Mildred to show how censorship influences her in an unfavorable way. While Montag argues that books are important, Mildred yells “Books aren't people... My ‘family’ is people… Why should I read.”(69) Due to the fact that restrictions are present in the society featured in the novel, Mildred is blinded by the essential fundamentals of life, Mildred does not understand

In the book Fahrenheit 451, the author Ray Bradbury has many fears for the future. The book is set in a futuristic time where fireman are payed to burn books. Montag, one of the lead characters, is married to Mildred. As the book progresses the relationship between Mildred and Montag is dysfunctional as they do not truly love or care about each other. Mildred ends up committing suicide.

Fahrenheit 451 is a novel of little happiness. Society as a whole has become content with watching television and wasting away their lives, while a few individuals ponder the true meaning of life and happiness. Bradbury throughout the book depicts what our world could become, and almost sends a warning to the reader on how to avoid this unfriendly fate.

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

In Fahrenheit 451, there are many characters fates that match up to our own fates. Mildred is an obsessed television watcher who talks to people as if she is

Clarisse’s and Mildred’s presence in Ray Bradbury's story Fahrenheit 451, gives the idea that both characters are alive but metaphorically dead by looking at their personalities and ways of being in their dystopian community and personal relationships. Clarisse and Mildred may have different personalities but they both share the same concept. Clarisse has a personality that does not exist within other people. She tends to point out on the real significance of life, which leaves characters in shock and confusion after interacting with her. As for Mildred and Montag’s relationship, Mildred shows lack of attention and love towards Montag. Mildred would pay attention more to her “family” and her friends instead of her marriage relationship. This gives Mildred the image that she is figuratively dead between her relationship with Montag. These figuratively dead characters lead to change Montag’s perspective.

“And he remembered thinking that if she died, he was certain he wouldn’t cry” (Bradburry 47). Throughout the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the crumbling relationship between Mildred and Montag leads to the breakage of their marriage and Montag finding his place in the world. The couple goes through ten years of marriage without love. This unhealthy relationship causes a miserable life for both of them. They live is a damaged society where everyone is under strict control. Books and pedestrians are banned, while killing and hurting are allowed. Mildred goes through life knowing very little about the world surrounding her, she is comfortable with being ignorant. Montag, on the other hand, is on a mission to learn more about his and Mildred’s civilization. He wants to find the root of the problem and repair it. This difference in the two individuals leads to the breaking of their relationship, and the ending of their life as they know it. Mildred’s realization that she doesn’t love Montag, Montag questioning the ways of society, and Montag reading books to Mildred and her friends leads to Mildred giving up on Montag and turning him into the government.

Mildred is the wife of Guy Montag, the protagonist of Fahrenheit 451. Although they are married they are not in love. Mildred does not love anybody, other than the ‘relatives’. The ‘relatives’ are devices similar to advanced wall televisions. She is so addicted to the ‘relatives’ that she no longer has legitimate relationships with anyone, including Guy. Her addiction causes her to crave more time with, and space to accommodate the ‘relatives’. Even when Guy buys her three walls of ‘relatives’ she still urges him to buy a fourth one. She no longer cares for her husband, she only values him for what he can give her. By the end of the story Mildred and Guy are so estranged that she reports him to the firemen, to be arrested for possessing books. While reporting him, she is not acting of her own accord. She is unable to think for herself, because the government has indoctrinated her. Her indoctrination causes her to report her own husband because she has been taught that books are evil. Once Montag has been reported she leaves and does not look back. This shows that isolation and government control over her thinking caused her to be incapable of loving her husband. Bradbury intentionally uses Mildred’s actions to portray this idea.

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

The question is agree or disagree, does Bradbury try to convince readers that even someone like Mildred is worth caring for. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury does want to convince readers that even someone like Mildred is worth caring for, because if Bradbury did not want readers to believe that Mildred is worth caring for then he would not of had Montag so concerned about her. This is demonstrated at the beginning of the novel when Montag gets home and Mildred is unconcious after trying to commit suicide. Montag could of let Mildred die after she took the pills at the beginning of the book, but he did not, showing he cared about her too much to let her die. Bradbury also demonstrated to us that she means something to Montag when he shared

Ray Bradbury´s wrote a book about this dystopian society where everything in our world is backwards in their world, they can speed, they burn books, and everybody is always gloomy and sad. Montag changed his mindset throughout the book, he went from burning books to saving them from getting burnt. Mildred on the other hand, continuously stayed the same throughout the book. She beginned the book showing she did not care, and carried that same mentality through the rest of the book. Ray Bradbury´s uses contrasting characters in Fahrenheit 451 to illustrate the differences within views of a dystopian society with his development of Montag and Mildred.

In the book fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury. He reveals mildred as a wife who doesn't care about her husband. Mildred has no compassion for montag , she only worries about superficial things like the rug and her show. Bradbury’s fahrenheit 451 reveals that people should have willingness to learn to have knowledge to succeed “You can’t be sick,” You’ve got to get up, it’s noon.”

Evidently, she is more than a dullard. Her being the status-quo is even easier to dismiss, because all one must do is look at what the status-quo actually is. The average people of Fahrenheit 451 lead empty lives, numb to their own unhappiness. They work, watch television shows and need nothing more to be satisfied. In contrast, Mildred, unstable