Much of Fahrenheit 451 characters live their lives in rooms with entire walls covered in a huge screen that acts as a television. Society in the novel wants people to be pulled away from having social relationships between people to having a fake life inside a television program. What the author Ray Bradbury is ingeniously trying to show is that he is trying to reveal how mass media is this veil that obscures real experience and how it interferes in our daily lives. Mass Media in other words is like a weapon, it affected the lives of people by brainwashing them, entertaining them and almost entirely pulling them away from the real world.
One of the many ways Mas Media ruined the lives of people in the novel was through brainwashing.Throughout…show more content… They are conscious that they sicken you overtime. This devices could even be considered addicting, kind of like drugs since the more you watch those shows the more attached to the point of actually damaging you. One perfect example for this is Mildred, she is Montag’s unhappy wife whom loves her parlorwalls to the point that she thinks they are actually their family. She constantly begs Montag to the buy a fourth parlorwall which cost about 1/3 of Montag’s yearly salary. Looking more into her character, she believes that her earplugs and walls make her happy, but as Montag knows nobody is actually really happy in this dystopian world they live in. Just as Clarrise asked “Are you happy” (pg. 10) to Montag, if we asked that to Mildred she probably would not know what to say. She is in this state of mind in which she prefers her fantasy world than the real world since she is oblivious to life and does not know how beautiful it is. This must have bothered her to the point of suicide, yet she was not the only. Many other civilians had committed suicide as well, that is why the hospital sends technicians not doctors to revive them and suck the poison out of their blood through this strange machines. That is why the book’s author Bradbury is trying to show us not to be driven to addiction by mass media. We now live in a world where most people depend on technology for almost everything. Some people take their eyes off of their phones because either their browsing through pictures, texting someone or anything else that can be viewed through a phone, which most of the time is everything. The book is trying to make a point that we as humans should start actually living our life. Some people would not understand what I mean but the main idea is that you should shut your phone and start talking to people face