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Montag's Society In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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(MIP 3) The citizens of the society end up being damaged when this control is enforced. (SIP A) This control being enforced makes people lose their emotions and lose value for the things they need value for. (STEWE 1) Citizens of Montag’s society hold more value for their parlor and technology rather than their family members. This is what is lost in the society. There is no care or love for the family members. When Montag was sick and he wanted some peace and quiet, he asked Mildred, “‘Will you turn the parlor off?’ he asked. ‘That’s my family’” (Bradbury 46). After Mildred was kindly requested to turn off the technology by her husband, she treats his request like she was asked to commit a murder. Clearly, she values her technology more than …show more content…

When Montag realized that Mildred had popped pills, he said, ‘“Maybe you took two pills and forgot and took two more...until you had thirty or forty of them in you’...’what would I go and do a silly thing like that for?’ (Bradbury 17). Mildred had irresponsibly forgotten about taking her pills until she overdosed. She didn’t even remember doing this. This overdose would’ve caused her to die if Montag hadn’t found her. Therefore, this memory loss can cause people to lose their lives very easily, like Mildred. She actually had a deep inner part of herself who wanted to die. This is the real reason she was popping pills. She wanted to die because she knew she wasn’t happy in life and she knew she never would be happy in life. Mildred never had any exciting thing to look forward to in her life nor did she have any memories that she could cherish. She wanted to die, like many others in her society. This was caused by the government’s control that’s being put on the citizens. This occurs very often in this society and she is also damaged like everyone else in her society. (STEWE 2) This inner feeling not only occurred in Mildred, but in others as …show more content…

(BS-3) The amount of control of knowledge and memory that is being put on the citizens of Montag’s can end up damaging each individual person. (BS-2) On the flip side of the radar, the controller of this knowledge and memory don’t have to deal with as many problems and they gain much more power when they enforce this control. (BS-1) The cause for all this is because knowledge and memory is controlled by the government in Montag’s society. (R) A message this book conveys is that once knowledge and memory are controlled, it can lead to internal damage for those being controlled as well as a gain in power for those that are

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Montag starts arguing with Mildred about how she is acting. She is depressed and does not even know it. Mildred thinks that the voices in the walls are her family. Montag tries to get her to see what is really happening in society. She is so unaware of her actions that Montag has top tell her, “maybe you took two pills and forgot and took to more, and forgot again and took two more, and were so dopey you kept right on until you had thirty or forty of them in you” (Bradbury 17).

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(MIP-2) From certain experiences, Montag comes to realize that he’s not actually happy with his life because he discovers that it lacks genuine, valuable, or humane relationships, eventually driving him to find the truth about his society by making him think about and question it. (SIP-A) Montag realizes from his experiences with Clarisse that his relationships in his life lack genuity, value, or humanity. (STEWE-1)

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