A dystopian world is a place where you could call nightmare
world or maybe even Hell. Feelings are forbidden in a dystopian world. For an
example, in Fahrenheit 451, no one is to have feelings. In other
words, emotionless. In this world, books are banned. One book found in your
house and the next thing is your house burning down into massive flames, heavy
black smoke polluting in the air, and shreds of wood and paper flying
in the sky. Guy Montag was a fire man who enjoyed his job, but you’re thinking
about the wrong firefighter. At this time, firefighters start fires in which
they find books in. Every night, Guy comes home to his wife Mildred who
has got quite an interesting personality.
An ordinary night comes where Mildred takes a whole bottle of
sleeping pills. This isn’t any big news to the community. They get as much as 9
calls a night about overdoses. “We get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so
many starting a few years ago…” (page 15) a careless operator said. Montag
describes this machine making it sound creepy. “They had this machine. They had
two machines, really. One of them slid down into your stomach like a black
cobra an echoing well looking for all the old water and the old time gathered
there….It fed in silence with an occasional sound of inner suffocation and
blind searching. It had an eye.” (page 14) This dreadful machine brings Mildred
back to life.
The next morning, Mildred acts as if nothing had occurred the
night before. Montag reminds her, “You took all the pills in your bottle last
night.” but she denies. “Oh [she] wouldn’t do that.” (page 19) This just shows
that she is unhappy, but is acting like everything is fine. No one can forget
the event when you tried to commit suicide. During the day she acts
duplicitous, but at night, the true Mildred comes out. She told on her own
husband that he was reading books and ran away from him.
Mildred is clearly unhappy. She fears for being caught and
tries to act emotionless. Therefore, Mildred is a very mysterious character.
Exposing her true self is confidential and she will never show her true colors.
Out of anything, that’s the last thing that she would do: be herself.
Mildred’s actions and
personality is based off this dystopian world or in other words, Hell. Is a
dystopian world worse than Hell? A dystopian world is frightening and unusual,
but there’s nothing worse than Hell. Not
even a dystopian world. “Anyone whose name was not found in the book of life
was thrown into the lake of fire.”- Revelation 20:15
