Fahrenheit 451 Morality Quotes

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We are here today to discuss a very strange case, a wife turning her back on her husband, but she shouldn't be punished. Although Montag broke the rules, he was her husband and she should have protected him. Mildred thought what she has been doing, was the right thing because she has been going through a rough patch with depression, she didn't know any better and she was protecting herself. Therefore, Mildred should be justified in turning in Montag. She is simply a victim of society. When people think that what they are doing in “morally” right, there's no question that's wrong. She knew that she was trying the help society and therefore she turned Montag into the authorities. Mildred grew up in a society where things like that are okay, …show more content…

“Mildred sat across the hall from him. ‘What does it mean? It doesn't mean anything’ The Captain was right?” Page 65 Line 19. All she knows is that books are bad and that they are not allowed. Everything was happening so fast and Mille didn’t know what to think about it. Poor Millie wasn't ready for this change. When Hitler came to be, he told the Germans that the Jews were the problem and they needed to be gone. That's all the Germans were being told so they believed it and they were scared. Millie grew up with people telling her that books were bad and anyone with a book was a saint. Another explain would “Why do people follow the crowd” A common lit article explaining why people follow the crowd and do the things they things they do. Millie Montag didn't want to get in trouble and didn't want to be in the …show more content…

Millie absolute loved her shows. She cared about them like nothing else. They were always there for her when Montag was and when she was sad and depressed. Over the years, Montag and Millie became trapped in a loveless marriage. Mille knew that her and her TV would never lose the bond they share. When she found out that Montag was hiding books and then showing her friends the books, that her “Family” might be taken away, she fancied and didn't want it gone. She cared about her TV with all her heart. Millie can't be blamed for what she did. She didn't know who to blame, but she blamed Montag. “She shoved the valise in the waiting beetle, climbed in, and sat mumbling. ‘Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone,everything, everything gone now…” This reminds of reading about Adolf Hitler. Hitler blamed the Jews. After World War 2, the Germans didn't know who to blame and don't want to face the fact that it was their fault. He made up some rumor that the Jews were the ones who were slowing down the Germans from their recovery, the country german lost the war and needed to pay for the reputations. Hitler kept telling the Germans that everything was bad because of the Jews. Millie told Montag that books were bad and that having them and reading them can get them in trouble, Millie didn't want to give up her TV, she then called in