Fahrenheit 451 Death Analysis
Imagine a life so different than the life you live now, where the things you value the most are forbidden and the punishment is so severe, it’s almost not worth living. In the book Fahrenheit 451, life and death are major topics throughout the story. There are also symbols that represent life and death, such as fire. In the story, the fire may not kill them but it is still a symbol of death. Life and death are two completely opposite concepts, yet they feed off of each other. There can’t be death without life. And nothing can be alive and dead at the same time, but ray Bradbury has creatively made it seem possible as he describes the world that farenheit 451 lives in. Many people in our society and in the book go to major extents for the things
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He began to understand that his life, as he knew it, was empty and living in this mindless society was the same as not living at all. Mildred has become so brainwashed that she is almost non existent spending her days watching people on T. V. who she believes are her family. she is not even aware that she has become almost like a Robot, doing what she it told to do. Ray Bradbury describes her as both alive and dead and her need to escape from this meaningless life leads her to attempt suicide. Some people might say this was an accident and others might disagree. In a way, I feel Ray Bradbury has created Mildred’s character to be somewhat relatable to our society today. We live in a world where T.V. can take the place of emotions that we are missing and it is easy to get lost inside a make believe world. Our generation uses t.v. and social media in place of actual conversation and socializing, making it harder to connect to the real world. This often leads to depression and just like Mildred, we can feel we have no one to talk to, feeling as though we are dead. Mildred does not die from attempting suicide, but instead is forced to live in an empty society where, for some, death is a much better solution
He began to understand that his life, as he knew it, was empty and living in this mindless society was the same as not living at all. Mildred has become so brainwashed that she is almost non existent spending her days watching people on T. V. who she believes are her family. she is not even aware that she has become almost like a Robot, doing what she it told to do. Ray Bradbury describes her as both alive and dead and her need to escape from this meaningless life leads her to attempt suicide. Some people might say this was an accident and others might disagree. In a way, I feel Ray Bradbury has created Mildred’s character to be somewhat relatable to our society today. We live in a world where T.V. can take the place of emotions that we are missing and it is easy to get lost inside a make believe world. Our generation uses t.v. and social media in place of actual conversation and socializing, making it harder to connect to the real world. This often leads to depression and just like Mildred, we can feel we have no one to talk to, feeling as though we are dead. Mildred does not die from attempting suicide, but instead is forced to live in an empty society where, for some, death is a much better solution