Fahrenheit 451 and Allegory of the Cave

opine a world where books are banned from confederation, and firemen start fires, rather of put them out(a). Families are detached of love, violence is rampant on the streets of the urban center, planes from warring countries constantly lagger overhead, and suicide is a systematic occurrence. This is the picture that Ray Bradbury paints in his dystopian novel Fahrenheit(postnominal)(postnominal) 451. The story itself is a painting of Platos Allegory of the Cave, highlighting the effect of education and the inadequacy of it on human nature. throughout the story, Bradbury uses his characters as metaphorical reverberates in order to emphasize the sizeableness of self-examination as a way to escape the spelunk.\nThe legend begins with those who are detain in the cave. Beginning from childhood, these people oblige lived their spotless lives chained to the cave facing forward, seeing nobody other than the shadows cast by the fire behind them (Plato 515a). These shadows extend the closest thing to macrocosm that these prisoners will ever make out. In Bradburys society, all of the citys citizens are trapped in the cave. They are so steeped within the culture that they know nothing apart from thimble radios tamped tight to their ears and goggle boxs that span entire debates. (Bradbury 12). Montags wife, Millie, is one of the well-nigh dominant prisoners within Fahrenheit 451. She functions as a mirror to the state of society. However, she is much(prenominal) a part of Guys routine that he cannot depend to see what she reflects (McGiveron 2). Millie is so ghost with the fictional family that appears on her three-wall television that they become her existingity, much interchangeable the shadows on the cave wall (Bradbury 77). To her, the family on the television is real; they are immediate and commit dimension (Bradbury 79). Millie embodies the superficiality and emptiness of the novels society and cannot escape it. Her frivolous activities , such as driving out in the country feel[ing] w...