Before we can talk about Mildred, we must understand Bradbury’s dystopian society. The phrases that best describe this world is ‘Forbidding of Thinking’ and ‘Uniting of Thoughts’. It is a society that forces people to have only one acceptable interpretation or narration responding to any one sets of facts and banning the others. The government sets a mindset that they like and force people to have those mindsets by laws and media control. Books and anything that causes diversity of thoughts are banned. The TV broadcasts very short, provocative and simple minded contents. Here is a content on TV that really shocked me. “A minute later, three White Cartoon Clowns chopped off each other’s limbs to the accompaniment of immense incoming tides of laughter.” Although the purpose of this is to cause a happier society without any collisions of thoughts, it caused me to really doubt the idea of this ‘happy society’.
Mildred is like a mirror reflecting all the worst aspects of this society. She is a product of this brainwashing of the government, Mildred is shaped to listen and absorb and not to question and speak. Mildred is brainwashed to feel happy and okay even 
if she isn’t. It’s so bad that it’s almost as if her job is to convince herself that she feels happy. A great example that shows this is when she has a suicidal attempt and completely denies it the next day. This is a quote from the book: “She was quite obviously waiting for him to go. “I didn’t do that,” she said, “Never in a billion years.”” . Being a product of the society, it is pretty clear that Mildred represents everything that is wrong about this dystopian society the Bradbury created.
I think that Mr. Bradbury created this character to show what the society was like, because you can really know very much about a society if you look at the people and their characteristics. Mildred was a crucial character that really helped understand what was going in the book.
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