Fahrenheit 451 Paper

Fahrenheit 451 Paper

  • Submitted By: wf1999
  • Date Submitted: 12/07/2013 1:24 PM
  • Category: English
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Questions. Questions come from confusion about a topic of interest, whether its confusion about people or about a person, sometimes it is just confusion. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag is confused about the culture he lives in and the people that surround him. Mildred avoids her confusion and her questions. Ray Bradbury uses Montag and Mildred by showing how they lose their freedom of thinking on their own and questioning anything on their own.
Ray Bradbury’s first use of his warning in F451 is Mildred. Ray Bradbury uses Mildred by her consumption in technology. The morning after her overdose, Mildred tells Montag about how much she enjoys the recently bought 3rd Parlor Wall. She explains how Montag and her should get a 4th one saying ,"It's really fun. It'll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in? It's only two thousand dollars” (Bradbury 18). Montag pleads to her that that is nearly is yearly pay, and they already have sacrificed a lot to get the 3rd wall. He tells her that he just bought it two months ago (18). Mildred only cares about what she and her society calls “fun”, and she doesn’t care about Montag, person that provides for her. Ray Bradbury also uses Mildred by her uniform actions. Mildred is so convinced that the only thing that matters is “fun” because that is what her society teaches her and most people that lives in this city. Mildred is so convinced that the only thing that matters is “fun” because that is what her society teaches her and most people that lives in this city. Mildred follows the trend of the people and she took it so far that she would call in her own husband and allow her own house to be burn (111). She lacks feeling in certain places where she should have some.
Ray Bradbury’s second use of his warning is Montag. The way Ray Bradbury uses Montag is by his search for himself. When Montag is asking Beatty...

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