F451 Essay Mildred was self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling. In the fiction story, “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury,many reasons made her robotic,self-centered, and unfeeling, but it was mainly Guy Montag, and Captain Beatty. Montag did not treat her well and Captain Beatty did not treat either of them well. Mildred is self-centered because everyone had made her that way. Everyone treats her bad it seems like and she cannot help worrying about only herself. She is sad that her TV family dies, and after that she does not care about Montag or anything. When she announced Clarrise’s death she did it so out of the blue and late that it did not even matter anymore. Montag and Mildred did not have a very good marriage at all, and they always had tension amongst each other. On page 50, the text states,” Shut the relatives up” and after that “This time Mildred ran. The yammering voices stopped yelling in the parlor.” This means that Mildred does not care about leaving Montag alone with Captain Beatty, which also means that she only cares about herself. I think that Mildred just needs to get brave and just tell Captain Beatty to leave, but they are both most likely nervous about the books they have in the house even though they are very hidden. …show more content…
It does not seem like she is brave enough to make her own decisions or speak for herself. On page 56, the text states, “Montag could lip-read what Mildred was saying in the doorway. He tried not to look at her mouth, because then Beatty might turn and read what was there too.” This means that Mildred is scared of Captain Beatty for sure and Montag does not want them to be acting nervous because then he will know something is up for sure. Personally, I think that they should not have taken the books in the first place and if they had time just burn them to release that burden off of their
First, MIldred is Montag’s wife, and she acts as if she is a robot. Montag is different from everyone else, he thinks more about certain stuff than other people do. Unlike Montag Mildred doesn’t think as hard as he does. This is a reason of why or how she is robotic. The way Mildred speaks to Montag is another reason to why she has robot like actions. In the book, Mildred or MIllie says, “I had a nice evening”, then Montag replies “What doing?”, Millie then says, “The parlor”,
As stated in the ‘Roles of Women in the 1950s, by a home economics textbook published in 1954,’ This time called for… “loving wives who supported their husbands emotionally. Divorce was cause for shame, even though not every couple was happy. Pressure to conform (for men to be good “company men” and women to be perfect housekeepers and mothers) caused stress for both sexes.” Mildred may be seen as happy however if we further analyze the text she may not be. In the first part of the story it seems odd that Mildred, although a complete airhead could down 30 sleeping pills and had no idea that she did. This again as discussed in the Feminist Literary Theory makes a woman in literature seem less intelligent than their counterpart. However it could be argued that Mildred popped these pills unhappy but has no way to show it. In this dystopian society as well as the 1950s when the book was written is was a woman's job to be happy or at least pretend to be. In the story she states that she is proud of the life she has with her husband and that she is satisfied. Now just like in the 1950s the ideal woman would be there too smile and welcome her husband home from a long day at work, Mildred is the ideal woman in her society as well. Lastly, the plumbers when ‘fixing’ Mildred after she downed all the pills said this happens all the time, we
Second, Mildred is self-centered. One time she is self-centered is when she wants to buy a fourth tv wall. A quote from the story is “That’s one third of my yearly pay,”Montag says. “It’s only two thousand
She does not express her views of the world since she spends her days watching and “communicating” with the parlor walls. Because of this, she is very forgetful of personal events and careless of others. Bradbury 40, Montag thinks back to when he and Mildred first met. “The first time we met, where was it and when?” “Why it was at-” She stopped. “I don't know,” she said. Also in Bradbury 49, Mildred states, “..let me alone. I didn't do anything,” as Montag shares his book conflict. This shows how Mildred lacks in thinking and considering the feelings of others. Therefore, she is the opposing side of the theme of the
First Mildred is self-centered because she doesn't care what happens to others. In this society books are dangerous because they make us think. This quote from the story mildred states “ what’s this? Asked Mildred, almost with delight. Montag heaved back against her arms. What’s this here?” This quote shows how Mildred wanted to get Montag in trouble. Mildred is hoping officer Beatty will look or hear what they are saying This shows how Mildred is only looking out for
all she wanted to do was learn their ways and help them. Her reputation was that she isn’t supposed to be there because she is a girl and doesn’t really understand what she’s supposed to do, according to the men that already work there. Yank doesn’t even see her because he is so focused on his work. Evidence is, “She was all white. I tought she was a ghost. Sure.” (O’Neill, 1929, p. 20) When Yank saw Mildred she looked afraid and not sure of what she was supposed to be doing, and that’s why he said she looked like a ghost. He knew that she didn’t quite understand the ropes of the stockhole and he honestly didn’t care how he acted towards her. Yank’s attitude towards Mildred made her think that she wasn’t important enough to be in the stockhole. just because she wasn’t a man like everyone else. Yank believed that she shouldn’t be working down there because she’s a woman. He scared her away, with all his yelling and acting obnoxious. She was definitely not welcome in the stockhole.
Is Mildred selling herself to the people in her life in order to maintain the life she has created for herself and Veda? She is constantly working and making money for her family but she gets no fulfilment out of it. Towards the end of the film, Mildred is back with Bert and is contempt to go back to the lifestyle she once lived, but that her daughter Veda despises. Does Mildred feel self-accomplished or does she feel powerless? “Mildred walks out of the police station into the morning sunshine with the man who was her first husband and the father of her children. However, since he was an unreliable breadwinner and she had to go to work baking pies to support the family in the first place, one might wonder just how happy this ending is supposed to seem” (Basinger,
One of the most prominent themes throughout the book Fahrenheit 451 is the lack of human communication and social relationships. Ray Bradbury, who is the author of the novel, Fahrenheit 451, emphasizes the poor or almost non-existent relationships between many of the characters in the novel. The dilapidation of human contact in this work makes the reader notice an idea that Bradbury is trying to get across. This idea is that human communication is important and can be even considered necessary, even though our technology continues to advance.
Through out the film, Mildred has shown that she is a mother that would do anything for her children, she is strong, and independent. Even though she comes from a middle class, she does everything in her power to provide for her two daughters, especially for the eldest daughter Veda. At first, I thought Mildred was femme fatal because of the first scene but turns out that Veda is femme fatal, based off her values and behaviors. Mildred is a very attractive woman, and had a lot of men liking her but not once did she gave them the wrong idea or go after their money. The only time she married someone that she did not love was Monty, her second husband, and that too was for Veda so she would come back home. What stands out to me about Mildred
Mildred sounded the book alarm in her home, avenging Montag for not loving her and for putting her in danger (page 108). While Montag was hiding his secret library, he showed it to his wife, Mildred. Since libraries and books are illegal, Mildred felt unsafe. One day while Montag was at work, Mildred rang the alarm in their house, which called the firemen. Montag and the firemen came rushing to the house, not knowing it was Montag’s. Montag ended up burning his own house down, piece by piece, with a flamethrower.
First, Mildred could be described as unfeeling. She does not care and is emotionless to everything that happens no matter what it is. In the novel, a woman kills herself in front of Montag, and because of this he is upset. Mildred’s response to this included, “She’s nothing to me; she shouldn’t have books, it was her responsibility, she should have thought of that.” She does not care that her husband is upset, and she doesn’t feel sorry or sad that someone died. Based on Captain
Mildred is not just self-centered, she is also unfeeling. For example she forgot to tell Montag that clarisse had died, and didn’t seem fazed at all. She is also robotic. When captain Beatty came to talk to Montag, Montag had asked her to leave the room. She did angrily, but she still did as she was told.
Montag defines, “her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow” (13). Montag is describing how Mildred appears to him every day. This quotation proves that without books and knowledge (guidance) people in the society are unhappy, but they believe technology such as “parlor families” have the ability to keep them happy. Mildred symbolizes her society. This quotation supports depression in the society because the story clearly shows that the people are not pleased. Evidence is the fact that Mildred tried to commit suicide. If she were happy with her life and their society she would not have thought about committing suicide. “You took all the pills in your bottle last night” (19). Books not being a part of the society created a society in which everything is bad, a frightening place in the world. Mildred’s society is a dystopian society where everyone who does not have knowledge is suffering depression, they are devastating. Another example that proves that citizens in the society are depressed is when Montag feels that Captain Beatty wanted to die because he did not even try to move and purposely let Montag kill him. Evidence for the text is “he lay where he had fallen and sobbed, his legs folded, his face pressed blindly to
Of all characters, Bradbury uses Mildred Montag to effectively portray the idea that the majority of society has taken happiness as a refuge in nothing but passive, addictive entertainment. She immediately reveals her character early in the book, by saying, “My family is people. They tell me things: I laugh. They laugh! And the colors!” (73). Mildred is describing her parlors, or gigantic wall televisions, in this quote. Visual technological entertainment is so important in her life that she refers them to as “family,” implying the television characters as her loved ones. By immersing herself in an imaginary world, Mildred finds herself able to relate to fake characters and plots, giving her a phony sense of security. This is necessary for her to achieve her shallow happiness, or senseless plain fun, as she lifelessly watches other people in her walls with a senseless mind. Her family in real life only consists of Guy Montag, her husband, whom she has no fond feelings about. Montag is so frustrated with Mildred because of her inability to express feelings for ...
Albert Einstein once said “…Imagination is more important than knowledge…” but what if people lived in a world that restrained them from obtaining both knowledge and imagination. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Montag, expresses his emotions by showing the importance of social values. Throughout the novel, the secretive ways of a powerful force are exploited, the book also shows the faults in a new technological world, and the author shows the naïve way an average citizen in a dystopian society thinks.