How Did Montag's View Of Society In Fahrenheit 451

According to Daily Mail, the average person spends about 8 hours and 41 minutes on their electronic devices.Within Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451, he foreshadows a ghastly future that we will soon come upon. He illustrates the image of the human population no longer having control of technology, but instead technology has a grip on humans. One of the characters in the book, whose name is Guy Montag, is just like everyone else until he meets Clarisse. Clarisse opens his eyes to a new way of looking at life and he is unable to go back to the old ways no matter how hard he tries. Montag can now see all the flaws in society, especially in his wife, Mildred, who it the epiphany of society. Montag tries to get an understanding of books, even

One deranged aspect of society is the way citizens go about their lives everyday. People tend to go through their days the same every single day. Day after day, their routines are the exact same. They get up in the morning, go to work, and then come home. No one tries changing the way they live, because this plain routine is all that they know. Not only do the citizens live the same way everyday, but they seem like walking corpses. Mildred Montag, Guy’s wife, is the best representation of an average person in society. She only goes the motions of life, but shows no sign of truly thinking about what she is doing. She is engulfed in the technology available and it affects her in depressing ways. She is less of a human being due to the constant technology use: “her Seashell was tamped in her ear again and she was listening to far people in far places, her eyes wide and staring at the fathoms of blackness above her in the ceiling” (Bradbury 39). The people in the society do not think for themselves, but instead follow what everyone around them does like sheep following the herder. People within society also look forward to seeing their “families” at the end of the day. However, their “family” is not what it seems. In every home in the city, there are parlor walls, which are like TV’s as the walls. The people get scripts to follow along with the television program, which makes them feel like they are

Mildred Montag is used in the story to represent the majority of the population. Bradbury does this by having her follow all the laws without question and she is always using technology. Mildred uses technology every single second of the day. She always has the Seashells in her hears, which are little devices similar to ear buds that talk to her or play music. In the morning, she uses a spider-like machine to spread the toast on her butter for her. At night, she is in the parlor room watching her show play. All Mildred seems to know is how to get the basic needs in life, such as food, but everything else revolves around the technology in her home. Mildred also does not seem to be in the right state of mind. Montag comes home from work one day and he found her passed out on the bed. Her pill bottle is empty in the corner, and it seems as though she is dead. Montag calls the authorities and they revive her, however, she has no recollection of the night before: “Last night- he said again. . . ‘What about last night?’ . . . ‘What? Did we have a wild party or something?”(Bradbury 16). She is convinced that she would never do such a thing like committing suicide, but her actions say otherwise. She is also not truly living her life, instead she is just going through the day in a blind manner. She does not change anything about her daily routine, and only looks forward to her