Pleasure In Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451

Nowadays all society seeks is pleasure. Whether pleasure to us is video games, hiking ,or reading all we do is seek it with all we have. Ray Bradbury, the author of the dystopian novel Farenheit 451 ,writes in his novel of a society that only experiences pleasure. This society Bradbury writes about seeks pleasure by going to fun parks and having tv classes in school. In the grim novel Farenheit 451 , Bradbury uses Mildred’s denial, selfishness, and seashells to show how a society so absorbed in technology becomes clueless and isolated. Ray Bradbury uses Mildred’s denial to show how society has become so clueless to what is going on and what they are doing. Mildred has just woken up from overdosing the night before, and her husband, Montag, …show more content…
Montag has come home from work and like every night Mildred is lain bed using technology to help her rest and be entertained. As Montag walks into his room he sees Mildred, “And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound , of music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind” (Bradbury 10). The quote shows Mildred is disconnected from the world, and she uses seashells to rest herself. Bradbury uses Mildred’s seashells and thimbles to show society relies on technology which makes them selfish and live in denial. Mildred’s seashells are how she escapes, like the society she puts them in so she does not have to deal with the world around her. As the seashells go in the reality of their world goes away and society is consumed. In the dystopian novel Farenheit 451 , Bradbury develops the idea that society becomes isolated and so absorbed in technology through the denial, selfishness, and seashells of his clueless character Mildred. The society in the novel tries to find pleasure, and denies things that does not please them. This society denies so many things that they have become selfish. A society that lives in denial and selfishness is so caught up in pleasure they are absorbed in technology. Bradbury’s novel gives us a good example of a pleasure seeking society through

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