Society In Fahrenheit 451

Society can change a person positively or negatively. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Mildred is the wife of the main character, Guy Montag. Society has made Mildred self centered, robotic, & unfeeling. First off, Mildred is self centered because she wants self happiness. Mildred just wants to be happy. In the text, Captain Beatty states, “That’s all we live for, Isn’t it? For pleasure, for titillation?” Life is about making others happy, Mildred was obsessed with self happiness. She got mad earlier in the story because Montag wanted to take a break from being a fireman. Mildred got this way because all SHE wants is to be happy.

Second, Mildred is also acting robotic. She has become mind-numbed to society and life. An example is when she just started cleaning and tidying everything up when Captain Beatty came to the house. In Captain Beattys speech, he stated “Cram them full of non combustible data, chock them so **** full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliantly’ with information. Then they’ll fell they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving,” The government has numbed Mildreds mind how she thinks. It’s kind of like, they closed her mind, so she can’t think for herself. Mildred thinks one way all of the time and one way only.
She doesn’t care about anything. Like when she forgot to tell Montag that Clarisse died. I think Mildred is unfeeling because she doesn’t want her feeling pain, or regret. She doesn’t want to get hurt so she doesn’t care about anything. In the text, it states, “Don’t step on the toes of dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, mormons, baptist, Uniterians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon, or Mexico.” Mildred acts like she doesn’t care, or maybe she really doesn’t. People in this society, don’t want to be hurt, or have their feelings