How Does Fahrenheit 451 Change Society

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, and unfeeling. First, Mildred is self-centered. In Fahrenheit 451, early on in the story Mildred overdoses and dies. “The small crystal bottle of sleeping tablets which earlier today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped and empty in the light of the tiny flare.” said the narrator. This incident being proof she is self-centered because she wasn’t thinking about anyone else but herself when she decided to take her own life by overdosing. Every time she swallowed a pill it was more and more and more about Mildred. This was not only her fault, society is also at blame. Society set a thought in every ones mind that, “Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.”, said Captain Beatty. With this in Mildred’s head, she was made into a self-centered machine altered by …show more content…
In Fahrenheit 451, Montag and his wife were having a discussion in which Clarisse was brought up. Mildred then informs Montag of Clarisses death, four days after she’d been informed of it, because she forgot. “Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”, said Montag. “Forgot.”, said Mildred. “”Four days ago!”, exclaimed Montag. She seemed to have no feeling, she didn’t care, she should’ve told him right away! “We must all be alike.”, said Captain Beatty about society. Mildred may have thought because she had no feeling for the incident, than neither did Montag. Society has made Mildred self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling. Mildred the wife of Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451 has been changed by society. Society can leave a negative or a positive impact on you, or vise versa. In Mildred’s case society left a negative impact causing a negative change in her, and in her life as