1. Compare and contrast what Socrates says in “The Simile of the Cave” with Fahrenheit 451. How are characters like Mildred similar to characters in “Simile of the Cave”?
1A) Well, they are exactly what Socrates speaks of. Those prisoners who are just chained up and don't question anything. Because in the book Bradbury says that the whole world is ignorant and only is attracted to media and such frivolous things. In F451, the society was controlled by the media, and brainwashed into believing that whatever the media said was real, and there was no need to question it because there wasn't any room for it to be wrong. I believe They are the prisoners who choose to be imprisoned. If you make a decision to be ignorant, like Mildred and many people used to do, then you are solidifying your belief that everything you are given by the governing body or belief is true, whether you really believe it or not.
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