There are numerous reasons as to why a relationship may end. Maybe one side wasn’t recuperating the feelings, or you disagreed on too many things, but in the end it comes down to truth. Humans value truth the most in a relationship and when one doesn’t tell the truth or believes a different truth than another, a relationship can crumble in an instant. Most of the time, lying is intentional, but sometimes it isn’t. When an event occurs and one discovers the truth about something, they start to have doubts about the things similar to the truth you discovered. However, if the other person in the relationship doesn’t know about this truth, they’re going to think their partner is lying and that their doubts are just paranoia. In truth, they’re the …show more content…
Part 1 and 2 showed how Montag’s doubts formed an emotional barrier between Montag and Mildred and part 3 was the cumulation of all those disagreements. This cumulation was Mildred turning in Montag into the firemen and reporting that he has books hidden in their house. The strain is further evident when, “She ran past with her body stiff, her face floured with powder, her mouth gone, without lipstick. ‘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 ...’” (108). Montag’s doubts and revelations lead to his family being torn apart, as Mildred is saying. Without those revelations, like him meeting the old lady and becoming curious about those books, and Faber and him and talking about society, he would have never stepped outside of the mold that Mildred wanted him to stay in. Those revelations caused him to change, or discover his real values. According to Peter Pearson, a psychologist who founded Couple’s Institute, “values are the most crucial parts of a relationship.” When Montag had those revelations in the novel he realized that, “Happiness is important. Fun is everything. And yet I kept sitting there saying to myself, I'm not happy, I'm not happy” (62). But Mildred never had those revelations, so …show more content…
Montag and Mildred relationship failed because Montag had doubts about what Mildred values, and since that’s such an important part of a relationship, the relationship didn’t work. Others may say that you can work through anything, even if one person in the relationship is lying right to your face. This may be somewhat true, but there’s no doubt that the relationship will never be the same, or it will be strained, as the assertion stated. Some people will forever stick with one person, no matter how untruthful or different they are, but that relationship isn’t healthy. A person shouldn’t stay with someone if they feel that the relationship is strained beyond repair. Just like a muscle strain, you can’t keep running on it, or else you’ll get hurt. You have to take a rest, just like with a relationship. In the beginning of the novel, Montag was unhappy and Mildred didn’t care. When the relationship ended, Montag was able to discover his true self and become ‘free’ in a sense. Relationships can be thought of like a building, with truth as the foundations. If the foundation of a building isn’t strong, it’s wise to evacuate the premises before you get
“Remember when we had to actually do things back in 2015, when people barely had technology and everyday life was so difficult and different? When people read and thought and had passions, dreams, loves, and happiness?” This is what the people of the book Fahrenheit 451 were thinking, well that is if they thought at all or even remembered what life used to be like before society was changed.
In Federalist 10 James Madison argued that while factions are inevitable, they might have interests adverse to the rights of other citizens. Madison’s solution was the implementation of a Democratic form of government. He felt that majority rule would not eliminate factions, but it would not allow them to be as powerful as they were. With majority rule this would force all parties affiliate and all social classes from the rich white to the poor minorities to work together and for everyone’s opinion and views to be heard.
The second cause that had a huge impact on the society was relationships. Montag and his wife Mildred seem to lack the love and communication they had when they were first married. When Mildred was happy about the White Clown,...
To start, the novel Fahrenheit 451 describes the fictional futuristic world in which our main protagonist Guy Montag resides. Montag is a fireman, but not your typical fireman. In fact, firemen we see in our society are the ones, who risk their lives trying to extinguish fires; however, in the novel firemen are not such individuals, what our society think of firemen is unheard of by the citizens of this futuristic American country. Instead firemen burn books. They erase knowledge. They obliterate the books of thinkers, dreamers, and storytellers. They destroy books that often describe the deepest thoughts, ideas, and feelings. Great works such as Shakespeare and Plato, for example, are illegal and firemen work to eradicate them. In the society where Guy Montag lives, knowledge is erased and replaced with ignorance. This society also resembles our world, a world where ignorance is promoted, and should not be replacing knowledge. This novel was written by Ray Bradbury, He wrote other novels such as the Martian chronicles, the illustrated man, Dandelion wine, and something wicked this way comes, as well as hundreds of short stories, he also wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV. In this essay three arguments will be made to prove this point. First the government use firemen to get rid of books because they are afraid people will rebel, they use preventative measures like censorship to hide from the public the truth, the government promotes ignorance to make it easier for them to control their citizens. Because the government makes books illegal, they make people suppress feelings and also makes them miserable without them knowing.
Bradbury also uses war references when Montag gets to know Mildred’s friends. When Montag finally meets them, he asks, "When do you suppose the war will start?" he said. "I notice your husbands aren't here tonight?” (90). This quote is used to foreshadow future problems because Montag is about to blow up at the women at the table. This point is also the igniter to more serious problems with Mildred. In the novel, Mildred is shown to care more for her friends than her actual husband. Once Montag confronts Bradbury incorporated this quote to foreshadow what was coming. Lastly, When Mildred turns Montag in, Montag’s inner war accelerates as well. Mildred’s betrayal was a key point in the novel. Once Montag talks to Mildred’s friends about their view on politics, social issues, etc, he realizes that his ambition to convince a society is nearly impossible. Montag ultimately blows up at the women, causing more issues for the future. In addition, the overdose also escalates Montag’s inner war because this makes him question his marriage. Bradbury correlates Montag’s problems with Mildred to the
Fahrenheit 451’s Relevance to Today Fahrenheit 451’s relevance to today can be very detailed and prophetic when we take a deep look into our American society. Although we are not living in a communist setting with extreme war waging on, we have gained technologies similar to the ones Bradbury spoke of in Fahrenheit 451 and a stubborn civilization that holds an absence of the little things we should enjoy. Bradbury sees the future of America as a dystopia, yet we still hold problematic issues without the title of disaster, as it is well hidden under our democracy today. Fahrenheit 451 is much like our world today, which includes television, the loss of free speech, and the loss of the education and use of books. Patai explains that Bradbury saw that people would soon be controlled by the television and saw it as the creators chance to “replace lived experience” (Patai 2).
Mildred shows a hidden complexity to her with her strengths and weaknesses. Her weaknesses include being detached, not thinking, being empty, and refusing to feel emotion. Mildred shows her lack of human connections by blocking her relationship with Montag by having her “family” and TV act as walls, lacking empathy when talking about
Within the many layers of Montag lay several opposite sides. For example, Montag is a fireman who burns books for a living but at home, spends time reading novels, poetry, and other written material. Although Montag could be called a hypocrite, he does not enjoy both the reading and the burning at the same time; he goes through a change that causes him to love books. Humans have the power to change and grow from one extreme to another, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. In addition, when Mildred is with Montag, Montag does not have feelings for her but thinks of her as she is killed by the bombs. He possesses both the knowledge that Mildred does not love him and the heart that truly cares, but he knows not how to deal with this. His feelings are oppressed; it takes a major event (the bomb) to jolt them from hibernation.
Mildred admittedly turns in Montag’s books and betrays their relationship because of what will possibly happen if they were caught. She questions and denies all affiliations with her husband; she disbelieves her husband’s opinion on what books mean. On Montag’s statement
“Books aren’t real” [84] to her and the knowledge they contain is frightening and dangerous because it destroys her perfect idealized dream world. At the end of the novel Montag asks her to change her ways. He begs her to actually listen to him and read a book. However, Mildred blatantly refuses to do so because she perceives knowledge as a threat. Instead she screams for him to stop, showing that she would rather be ignorant than be exposed to something unknown. Mildred’s defiance towards knowledge demonstrates how sometimes not knowing is easier that dealing with the truth. Yet, is ignoring the truth any better? Can happiness really be achieved through self-deception and conformity, or is challenging the truth what makes us content?
The North Korean government is known as authoritarian socialist; one-man dictatorship. North Korea could be considered a start of a dystopia. Dystopia is a community or society where people are unhappy and usually not treated fairly. This relates how Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 shows the readers how a lost of connections with people and think for themselves can lead to a corrupt and violent society known as a dystopia.
Are you really happy? Or are you sad about something? Sad about life or money, or your job? Any of these things you can be sad of. Most likely you feel discontentment a few times a day and you still call yourself happy. These are the questions that Guy Montag asks himself in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In this book people are thinking they are happy with their lives. This is only because life is going so fast that they think they are but really there is things to be sad about. Montag has finally met Clarisse, the one person in his society that stops to smell the roses still. She is the one that gets him thinking about how his life really is sad and he was just moving too fast to see it. He realizes that he is sad about pretty much everything in his life and that the government tries to trick the people by listening to the parlor and the seashells. This is just to distract people from actual emotions. People are always in a hurry. They have 200 foot billboards for people driving because they are driving so fast that they need more time to see the advertisement. Now I am going to show you who are happy and not happy in the book and how our society today is also unhappy.
The third reason why Mildred is a bad wife if because she doesn’t have a heart. Everyone feels the lost if someone you know died. Montag just realized that he’s been killing people for the wrong reason. People whose only offense is reading books, and killing an innocent soul is no different than being a murderer. She doesn’t care that people died. She doesn’t give a crap that her husband is a murderer. “She means nothing to me!” are the exact words that she used because she only cares about herself.
As human beings, knowledge shapes who we are and sharpens our personalities, respect tightens our relationships, and love is what we need to achieve a happy life. What if there are no emotions, love, and respect between a young couple? What if they both live in a world which lacks knowledge and books but is full of violence and TV shows? Guy Montag and his wife, Mildred, who live in the future world in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, are in the same situation. By the attractive tone and voice, the author emphasizes their depressed relationship and makes it unforgettable for the audience. Specifically, from the view of their relationship, we can see the reflection of our modern world nowadays, where communication and feelings are replaced
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