##typical Characters In Mildred And Clarisse, By Ray Bradbury

Mildred Pierce, by James M. Cain, begins in pre-Depression California, and ends during World War II times, also in California. The main character, Mildred Pierce, is a very attractive housewife of 29, raising two daughters, Ray and Veda. Although Mildred loves both her daughters, Veda is a particular obsession with Mildred. She constantly slaves away throughout the novel to do whatever she can to make Veda happy, despite the constant abuse and deception Veda inflicts upon Mildred. After a divorce from her first husband, Bert, in the opening pages of the novel, Mildred is forced to sacrifice her pride and become a waitress in order to support her family. If Veda were ever to find out, she would be appalled; a constantly recurring

Though the inequality between genders was not fully resolved until later, the Women’s Rights movement was also beginning to take place at this time (Literature and Its Times…). An apparent problem of American society, then and now, is its tendency toward stereotypes, which will be further discussed later. Hansberry uses her characters and their dreams to draw upon the impact stereotypes have on a person’s ambitions and self-identity.

Mildred is an average member of society but yet, is alone. Mildred’s only real conversations are with or about the television. Millie answered the phone and immediately answered with “Yes, the WHite Clown’s on tonight!”(Bradbury 70). There was no asking of how their days were, just the television. When Millie hear a conversation about not caring when one's husband dies, she immediately thought of a show she had watched, not even thinking about the thought of how heartless not mourning a dead husband was. One of the first times Mildred is introduced in the novel, she is shown after attempting suicide, and most people who are suicidal do not feel loved, but instead live a dull, vapid life. One shocking detail of the city is how much the population is abating because of suicide. Mildred doesn’t even have much of a reaction when she is saved by the technicians, which truly shows her detachment from true feelings. As the novel progresses, Mildred is still surrounding herself with her television and acting as an average member of society. By doing this, she is unknowingly separating herself from the world, which is exactly what the society wants her to do. If all the people in the city were talking and having conversations about important things, they may start thinking, which, in the opinions of the city, is the worst thing that could

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.

According to the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Rollo May’s quote “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity” is inaccurate because for what these people in the society conformed to, is a coward act on it’s own. To go ahead and follow something you don’t have knowledge on with the stakes so high and then not give others a voice when they bring viewpoints that differ to what you originally conformed to, is known as a cowardly act. Conforming is just a cover up stuck in ignorance and stubbornness, an excuse for cowardice.

In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 describes Mildred with the utilization of metaphors and imagery to characterize Mildred as hypnotized by technology.

Pride and Prejudice is a novel that has intrigued readers for decades. Despite where one may be from, what gender they are, or what age they are, this story enthralls every reader. One of the primary reasons that this book is so notorious is because the two main themes: pride and prejudice, are two characteristics that any person can say they have come to know. Whether it be in themselves, in a friend, or even in a stranger, pride and prejudice are two defining attributes a person may have. Almost every character in this novel possesses at least one of these characteristics and because of this, relationships are created, broken down, and built

‘A deeper understanding of relationships and identity emerges from pursuing the connections between Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen.’

Bradbury reveals to the readers that Mildred Montag has short-term memory. Mildred easily forgets what happened the night before when she overdosed on sleeping pills. “Maybe you took two pills and forgot and took two more, and forgot again and took two more, and were so dopey you kept right

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

A particularly strong theme that runs through the entire novel is the unusual power that women play over the men in their lives. Rather than simply being passive to the impulses of men, Mildred takes charge of her life and decides which men she will be with and leaves those that she no longer has an affection for. Cain dives into more controversial territory by having Mildred use men for her own sexual satisfaction. Cain also moves women into the role of successful ‘breadwinners’ during a time where men generally held financial power further blurring traditional roles of gender.

In the book Fahrenheit 451, books are looked down upon and if you had any, they would be burnt. In this novel, Guy Montag is a fireman and his job is to burn books and the houses they are at. Montag had hidden books in his home and reads them. Montag’s wife, Mildred, is very different. She goes with the flow of society and spends her time watching a three wall tv and sleeping.

Living almost a century apart, Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy each explore similar themes of love through strong female characters. While society strove to keep women’s value directly tied to their marital status, Austen and Hardy wrote the stories of characters who defied these expectations. Bathsheba Everdene of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd is a fiery young woman who inherits a farm, and Elizabeth Bennet of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is an educated woman who prides herself on speaking her mind regardless of the consequences. Both women are of marrying age, and both novels feature their romantic exploits. Besides their differing socio-economic and temporal settings, Bathsheba’s and Elizabeth’s behaviors indicate that they are facing similar feelings and conflicts when it comes to issues of love and marriage. Bathsheba goes to greater lengths to defy societal pressures than Elizabeth does, but Bathsheba’s circumstances warrant the effort. The real difference between these characters is the way in which they are written. One could not know how similar Bathsheba’s thoughts and feelings are to Elizabeth’s, because the reader rarely sees through Ms. Everdene’s eyes. Bathsheba Everdene is the greater feminist heroine when taken alongside Elizabeth Bennet; however, Hardy writes her story almost exclusively from the perspective of his male characters, leaving her represented as two-dimensional in comparison to

Pride and Prejudice is one of the most popular novels written by Jane Austen. This romantic novel, the story of which revolves around relationships and the difficulties of being in love, was not much of a success in Austen's own time. However, it has grown in its importance to literary critics and readerships over the last hundred years. There are many facets to the story that make reading it not only amusing but also highly interesting. The reader can learn much about the upper-class society of this age, and also gets an insight to the author's opinion about this society. Austen presents the high-society of her time from an observational point of view, ironically describing human behavior. She describes what she sees and adds her own

In the novel 'Pride and Prejudice', Jane Austen has presented both positive and negative aspects of the two main theme—Pride and Prejudice. She has used a range of good examples and characters to demonstrate these two characteristics. She has also set different rewards or punishments for different characters, showing us both sides of being pride or prejudice.