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Determining The Truth In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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While some would choose to keep quiet and feel better that way, others would be eager to learn. Which would you prefer to remain in the dark and be silent, or to learn more and be curious about your surroundings and your society? In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Characters struggle making the decision to figure out the dark truth about their society or to stay in the dark and not question it. Although some people may think that not knowing the truth is better, the lack of understanding what's wrong and unusual in your society reveals how unhappy and how it starts a big conflict between the characters wanting to know the truth and not wanting to know. Mildred being unbothered and not questioning the values of her society will soon …show more content…

Mildred's lack of concern starts to affect others. Montag starts to get concerned about Mildred's lack of concern for the society they are in. Montag feels Mildred doesn't care for anything serious and does not address much because she's always unbothered. “How long has it been since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”(49). This shows Mildred's lack of being bothered with things and it is also starting to worry Montag. Montag starts to realize how she isn't concerned about anything going on. Clarisse's desire to be disturbed by her society highlights her role as a threat and stresses the value of questioning norms and establishing real human connection in a dystopian society. Clarisse seems like a very brainy person since she knows so many small things nobody knows. “I've got lost of time for crazy thoughts, I guess. Have you seen the two-hundred-foot-long billboards in the country beyond town? Did you know that once billboards were only twenty feet long? (7). The aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid afore Clarisse notices the littlest things which makes her very significant because she knows a lot about the

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She’s basically brainwashed by the parlor walls. Plus, she kept whining about getting a 4th parlor wall, which is why she wants Montag to go to work. This also demonstrates that she’s selfish and materialistic, she’s only interested in the things she wants, and she mostly cares about having objects. As I’ve mentioned before, she prefers her ‘family’ over her own husband. When Montag was sick, he ordered Mildred to turn down the volume on the parlor walls and to bring him some aspirin.

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Compared to Clarisse, Mildred is so insignificant to Montag that he even confesses this to his wife in a fit of pent-up frustration during a one-sided argument; "She was the first person in a good many years I've really liked. She was the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted." (33). Here, Montag is referring to Clarisse, and revealing to both Mildred and to himself that it was Clarisse McClellan who sparked something inside of him, something that would later drive him to confront his inner demons and deal with the guilt he has been carrying on his shoulders since the very day he started his career as a fireman. Through his self- intervention, he comprehends his utter disgust towards his coworkers, and even himself, as shown in the quotation when Montag vents to Mildred; "And Clarisse.

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Like the society, Mildred is brainwashed by the television due to this reason she is incapable of thinking and forming thoughts. If people do not acknowledge the fact, then it never existed for them. Clearly, this behavior is detected in Mildred, who is blocking out the facts by concealing her

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Mildred’s fake friends drag her into believing the wrong things revolving around physicality, hence she just does not know anything about truth. Her friends only vote on politics based on looks and manners (93), so Mildred thinks the book Montag reads to her “doesn’t mean anything! The Captain was right!” (65). But she only believes Beatty because he seems logical to her and no one told her against his ideas.

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While this is happening Clarisse is telling him different stories than what the government has brainwashed him into believing which is that books are worthless and have no emphasis on their world or their lives. In our world today someone sitting down and reading a book during their leisure time is very rare because many people would rather be on social media or watching TV because it is more entertaining and it has more action and interaction than a plain old book. We are constantly getting many upgrades and improvements in technology which is attracting people to the technology which is all pointless and is starting to control people’s minds. Just after Montag tells Mildred about the books he was hiding she got very upset and, “Then, moaning, she ran forward, seized a book and ran toward the kitchen incinerator. He caught her, shrieking.

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