Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury centers around the dystopian society in a nearing future. It follow Guy Montag and his interaction with the world around him, mainly the various people he encounters on daily basis. Each character lies somewhere on the scale of ignorance or knowledge, some lay more towards ignorance, or on knowledge and a few in the middle. Montag lies in the middle and hinders on each side depending who he meets. Characters like Clarisse, Faber, the old women lean him more towards knowledge, while characters like Beatty, Mildred, and Mildred friends reel him back to the social norm of ignorance. In a society that praises the ignorance, it will go to all measure to accomplish this. To do this it has a huge control over their
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She is the standard citizen, she watches the family in the parlor, she doesn't think too much, when she is anxiety she takes out the beetle like the rest of them do, she also follows all the rules and would never touch a book. Her influence on Montag is two sided, when everything starts and even prior to the book opening she keeps Montag in blissful ignorance. They get another wall for the family and they both don’t break the rules but after the events that lead him to stray off the normal path, her hold on old way strains him. While before she keep him grounded, this same groundness that held him down for ten year now frustrates him. Having obvious marriage problem, he longer is able to maintain any form of communication or maybe it was always like this but know he can’t stand the emptiness that is felt within the home. This eventually leads him to stray to knowledge sided. While she means to be like an ideal person in this type of society, her blissful ignorance doesn’t hold. She is shown to be taking pills for what seems like depression in various scene. Their marriage which they won’t acknowledge is rocky leads to an emptiness that is eating her alive. It becomes very apparent in the beginning as she tried to overdose on the pills, ending in her getting her stomach
She is the standard citizen, she watches the family in the parlor, she doesn't think too much, when she is anxiety she takes out the beetle like the rest of them do, she also follows all the rules and would never touch a book. Her influence on Montag is two sided, when everything starts and even prior to the book opening she keeps Montag in blissful ignorance. They get another wall for the family and they both don’t break the rules but after the events that lead him to stray off the normal path, her hold on old way strains him. While before she keep him grounded, this same groundness that held him down for ten year now frustrates him. Having obvious marriage problem, he longer is able to maintain any form of communication or maybe it was always like this but know he can’t stand the emptiness that is felt within the home. This eventually leads him to stray to knowledge sided. While she means to be like an ideal person in this type of society, her blissful ignorance doesn’t hold. She is shown to be taking pills for what seems like depression in various scene. Their marriage which they won’t acknowledge is rocky leads to an emptiness that is eating her alive. It becomes very apparent in the beginning as she tried to overdose on the pills, ending in her getting her stomach