The character of Mildred Montag in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is the perfect Archetypal fit of a Dystopian Citizen. This is because she follows the government’s/society’s guidelines without questions, even though the laws are quite obviously flawed. In the book, Mildred also suffers from the societal obsession with technology, even trying to push her husband into buying a third TV: “It’s really fun. It’ll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall TV put in? it’s only two thousand dollars.” (Pg. 18). This quotation exhibits how she is willing to sacrifice a good chunk of her husband’s income for leisure instead of purchasing necessities. Because of input from the government and the censorship of all books, Mildred has morphed into the perfect brainwashed citizen of the society.

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