Examples Of It Will Rain In Fahrenheit 451

Medication, the modern miracles, have been one of the most over and misused items in our society. Medication was created so that countless lives could be saved, not destroyed. Nowadays, people use medicine for everything and some may even use Advil as poison. In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, he takes a glimpse into the future and shows how people are even more reliant on drugs to get them through their day. In this not-so-fictional society, people overdose of sleeping pills regularly just so they don’t have to feel their “bad emotions”. People in Bradbury’s fictional world use sleeping pills and other medication just so they won’t remember or feel a bit depressing or bad day. Bruno Mars’s song, “It Will Rain”, explains depressing thoughts and emotions through the song’s superb melody, rhythm lyrics. “It Will Rain”, captures Bradbury’s tone in Part II of Fahrenheit 451 perfectly through its cold lyrics. …show more content…
She spends more time with her TV “family” than she does with her husband, Guy Montag. Through Part II, Bradbury brilliantly paints the setting and society of the novel. He explains how most citizens are just like Mildred and take a pill when they are feeling a bit gloomy. There have already been two cases when we have seen Mildred take the pills. For example, “You took all the pills in your bottle last night…” (17) or “In the bathroom the water ran. He heard Mildred shake the sleeping tablets into her hand…” (98). Bruno Mars expresses this concept also, as seen in the lyrics, “If you ever leave me, baby, Leave some morphine at my door” (L 1-2). This displays how even in today’s world people have the urge to tear themselves apart over one cold or depressing