Fahrenheit 451

Expand on the role of television and radio in Montag and Mildred's household. What artistic means does the writer resort to in presenting the TV production of the time? Who are "the relatives"? Why are their talks unbearable to Montag? Do you find the TV

Expand on the role of television and radio in Montag and Mildred's household. What artistic means does the writer resort to in presenting the TV production of the time? Who are "the relatives"? Why are their talks unbearable to Montag? Do you find the TV show tangible? If so, prove your point of view, taking into consideration syntactical, verbal and graphical, means employed by the writer. Account for different reactions of husband and wife to the show and TV in general. Speak on the role of the hyperbole and the paradox in the part of the selection dealing with TV. What is the writer's comment?

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Unfortunately, this is only a short-answer space, but I can make a general comment. Consider the parlor walls that Mildred and her friends are addicted to. The parlor walls are a TV like projection that Mildred watches all the time. They are vacuous shows meant to lull people into a sense of ignorance. Montag ends up burning them because they represent everything that is wrong with their society, they remind him of Mildred and her vacant headed friends.