In the novel, Mildred does not die as we read. She leaves
in a taxi to go somewhere, with one suitcase...Montag—in his mind's eye—imagines her in
her hotel room.
He imagines that just before the bomb drops
on her hotel, that she might in the split second before her death,
look into a mirror and see herself as she truly was rather than how the society
brainwashed her, and everyone else, to see herself and her place in society. She would
see the reality of her non-life: breathing and acting as if a
robot.
Members of society were expected not to think, not
to question. And books were banned because they were counter-productive to this desired
behavior: books generate ideas, and ideas generate higher-levels of thinking and a
desire to change.
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