Dystopia Reflective essay {series 1}

Throughout the book Fahrenheit 451 many warnings were suggested about the government. One warning that I think was one of the obvious was Montag’s wife, Mildred. Mildred had many issues. I think that Mildred didn’t feel that she was acceptable to the government. Due to that, I believe that she dealt with many self esteem issues which eventually lead her to attempted suicide. When her suicide attempt failed, she didn’t remember any of it, or maybe she was just in denial. I think that Mildred was somehow a sign or a warning from the author about the government. I think this because I think that she felt as if she wasn’t good enough or up to the standards of others living in her area, or that the government wanted. This could have been why she was such a quiet and reserved person. Another warning that I believe was given by the author was the fact that the citizens living in the town hid things so that the government wouldn’t find them in their houses. For example when Montag and his wife hid the books because they were afraid that the government would find them and they could possibly face some type of consequence for having them. This frightfulness should not be the type of relationship that the government has with their citizens. These types of warnings helped my learning a lot. How things in the book just didn’t seem right helped for me to pick them out and notice that these things weren’t normal. I also was able to connect it to what I know about now-a-days, and how in comparison they are either very different, or the world described in the book is freakishly, predicted by the author in many years earlier, that are reality in our world today.