Media Control In Fahrenheit 451

How will you control your specific item in your new society?

I will maintain control over the new society by taking full control of the media. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag was talking to Mildred about the TV, “‘Millie, does’-he licked his lips- ‘does your ‘family’ love you, love you very much, love you with all their heart and soul, Millie?’ He felt her blinking slowly at the back of his neck” (Bradbury 73). Mildred didn’t respond to Montag's question, leading to believe that she didn’t know whether the family on the TV loved her. The media controlled her so much that she thought the people in the tv loved her or were real. Media is powerful enough to be able to control people into believing things. That is how a society can be controlled. In another

It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn’t time to protest, ‘What nonsense!’”(Bradbury 80). Faber talked about how your brain doesn't have time to protest before you take in these new options from the media as your own. These people also think that this happening is just right for them. This is why you could keep control over a society just using the media. People would have to listen to what they hear in the media and that is where they get a lot of their opinions from. Additionally in Fahrenheit 451, the government had told every person to open their door and look for Montag. Montag escaped just in time and was imagining what their faces looked like, “He imagined thousands on thousands of faces peering into yards, into alleys, and into the sky, faces hid by curtains, pale, night-frightened faces, like gray animals peering from electric caves, faces with gray colorless eyes, gray tongues and gray thoughts looking out through the numb flesh of the face”(Bradbury 132). The response of all the people to try and help the government shows that mass media is affecting them. They immediately listen to the government without hesitation.