When living in an ironic world, never being able to speak your mind, and everyday living with a sense of fear towards the government, there is but one person you can turn to, one person to share your ture feelings with -- your husband. Detatching yourself from the rest of the world, only caring about what plays on your parlor walls, and consuming sleeping pills as if you life depends on it, illustrates the insignificant life in which Mildred Montag lives. Spending hours on end watching people on screen to the point where you don't remember when and where you and your husband met is an unimaginable thought, for you and your husband are supposed to be inseperable, helping each other through everything and always being there for each other, and if you can't remember how you met this man -- not rememberig one of the most important occurances in your life -- it is time for your life to change dramatically.
Closing yourself off from the real world, speaking yet not speaking, loving yet not loving, and living as if you are not living at all is a fear Ray Bradbury describes as the most tragic event we could ever encounter. Forgetting the most important events of your life, only hoping to get back to the television screen, is a life so ironic, only Mildred Montag could ever bear to live it; as demonstrated in Ray Bradbury's classic novel
Fahrenheit 451.
