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Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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The book Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a futuristic society that burns books and worships technology. Bradbury shows the reader how advanced technology could affect how people interact with each other. Such as through Mildred who is constantly distracted by her technology. Bradbury warns that too much technology usage could lead our society to become like the society in Fahrenheit 451. Due to Mildreds obsession with her seashell headphones her relationship with Montag weakens. One day when Montag comes home Mildred is passed out on the bed. When Montag checks to see if she's fine the only sound he hears is “the singing of the thimble-wasps in her tamped shut ears.”(Bradbury 13) Later in the morning Montag wakes up to find that Mildred still …show more content…

The morning after Mildreds overdose one of the first things she asks after Montag wakes up is can we get a “fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall TV put in?”(Bradbury 18) Another time Montag reveals that he sleeps with a “wall between [him] and Mildred.”(Bradbury 44) We can also see this obsession with TVs right after Montag reveals his hidden stash of books. When he tries to start reading with Mildred all she seemed to care about was that “the white clowns on tonight.”(Bradbury 70) In the book TV walls were very expensive and Montag would have to save up for about half the year to get one. So when Mildred asks for a fourth TV wall without explaining why at all or letting Montag put in his opinion had to make Montag feel like her slave. This would probably ruin a lot of relationships because she doesn't care about him in the least. Montag still thinks about it because he tries to care about Mildred's interests. Mildred on the other hand doesn't care about Montag's interest. We can see that when she doesn't even pretend to read with him she just goes onto one of her TV walls and blocks him out. Mildred also called the people on the TV her family showing that she genuinely cared about them ,but didn't call Montag her family letting us see yet again that Mildred just uses Montag as a bank and doesn't truly care for

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Foremost, Mildred helps Montag find himself. When Montag first realizes that there is no connection between him and Mildred he loses feelings for her. He soon realizes that their relationship is pushing each other apart. “And he thought of her lying on the bed with the two technicians standing straight over her, not bent with concern, but only standing straight, arms folded. And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn’t cry”(Bradbury 41).

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Mildred does not see how their relationship is being interfered with by the technology. Because she is too involved with her ‘family’, and their nonsense that they are making her believe. The readers also see how relationships are becoming the victims to technology when Mildred and her friends are over. Montag decides he has had enough of hearing the women talk about their lives, and how everything must revolve around them. So he decides to read a poem.

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Mildred only took an interest in the technology around her which supposedly gave her immediate pleasure. She was largely concerned about herself and her enjoyment. Because of this, Montag had a feeling himself that Mildred didn't have any real love for him either. Perhaps he believed that she had changed. Though Montag at first thought he led a happy life, he wasn't living it honestly.

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The first line of dialogue that Montag says is “it was a pleasure to burn”(pg. 1), which elucidates that he is just like the rest of the society. Bradbury introduces both of these characters as ignorant so the reader is able to draw a similarity between the way Montag is illustrated in the first page and how Mildred is characterized throughout the novel. This aids in tracing Montag’s coming of age journey because as he gets enlightened, the reader is able to distinguish how his mindset starts to diverge further away from Mildred’s. At the very end of the second chapter leading into the beginning of the third chapter, Beatty orders Montag to burn his own house, and as Beatty is speaking to Montag, Mildred runs past them “with her body stiff”(pg. 108). Through the employment of body language, Bradbury implies that Mildred is the one that turned Montag in to

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She never thought about anything and was comfortable with the uneventful life that she led. Mildred Montag is an example of people in this society not talking about anything. When Mildred has her “friends” (Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles) over, they talk about nothing that has substance to it. Montag describes them of being “blabbering tree apes.” Although Mildred and Guy had been married for 10 years, it was easy to tell that Mildred never truly cared about Montag; they might even be considered strangers due to the lack of communication between the two.

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Mildred cares more for the price for the TV than she cares for Montag. “‘It’s really fun. It be even more fun when we can afford to have a fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall- TV put in/ It is only two thousand-dollars.’ ‘It’s one-third of my yearly pay’” (18).

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Instead of expanding her relationship with her husband, she begs Montag to spend his money on another television wall so that she can feel more connected to her artificial family. Mildred wants to immerse herself in her television because she can achieve instant satisfaction from it without putting forth any effort. Improving her relationship with Montag would require hard work and for her to deal with complicated emotions, which is something that Mildred is not willing to do. Mildred may think that she is satisfied, but her lack of a meaningful relationship causes her to feel unhappy, which she covers up by immersing herself even more in the artificial stimulus. Not only is she unconcerned about her relationship with her husband, but she is also unphased when her

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As quoted by Montag’s Wife, “It's really fun. It'll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in? It's only two thousand dollars”, (Bradbury 1,11). The quote said by Mildred was saying that we only need useless entertainment to keep us busy, when we could have a face-to-face conversation with a real person.

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Montag's own wife loved her “family” more than she loved Montag and would give him up to protect her own “family”. Montag says “ Mildred, you didn’t put in the alarm!” “She shoved the valise in the waiting beetle, climbed in, and sat mumbling,’ Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now…”(Bradbury 108). Mildred loved her technology or “family” more than she loved Montag. She was willing to turn him in for having books in the house, instead of just being by his side and keeping quiet.

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‘Mildred, you didn’t put in the alarm!’ She shoved the valise in the waiting beetle, climbed in, and sat mumbling, ‘Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now…’” (page 114). This interaction between Montag and Mildred indicates the hollowness of their relationship, as Montag

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Mildred does not want to hear about Montag's issue and turns to her large television as another escape option. “‘I’m tired of listening to this Junk’, said Mildred, turning from him to the announcer again”(65). By referring to Montag's problem as “junk” Mildred makes it seem as though his problems useless just like trash and he talks about nonsense that deems irrelevant to her. Her movement, “turning from him to the announcer” in the direction away from Montag and toward the TV, shows that when she faces an issue her instinct brings her to technology as a coping mechanism. Once Montag talks about his problem she immediately blocks it out with the “[announcer's]” voice.

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Fahrenheit 451 was written with a setting of technological advances. The author of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, demonstrates the life without books while having technology so advanced where people are not able to think for themselves. The main character, Montag, experiences curiosity of what a few people saw within books in which lead him to value books and doubt the life he lived. Today, readers of Fahrenheit 451 can attain a dominant and powerful message due to parallel relationships between today’s world and novel’s world.

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(STEWE-2): Later, while watching the war in the city, Montag comes to a crucial realization regarding Mildred: “‘Even if she dies, I realized a moment ago, I don’t think I’ll feel sad. It isn’t right. Something must be wrong with me’” (Bradbury 148). Because Montag and Mildred were distant from one another and never truly loved or cared for one another,

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At the beginning of the book, Montag returns home from work to find an overdosed Mildred. The next morning he confronts her: “You took all the pills in your bottle last night.” (Bradbury 19) She attempts to argue feigning innocence, distancing herself from a concerned Montag. When Montag confesses to his hidden books collection, Mildred chooses her “family” rather than help Montag and read a book.

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Mildred in the novel is Montag’s wife. She is the perfect example of a conformed person in this society because she is brainwashed by the tv that the government has set in place. Proof of such is when she said, " 'Books aren't people. You read and I look all around, but there isn't anybody!' ".

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