ers to interact with the characters on the program and another unit that inserts Mrs. Montags name into specific places, thus creating the imagethey are actually conversing with them. Montags wife, having only a few friends and onesshe rarely sees, spends much of her day in this room, watching a program called The Family, a government sponsored program that shows the viewers what life at home should be like.The problem with this is that Montags wife takes the program as a substitute for reality. She is almost addicted to buy the program, much as people were with the soma inBrave New World. Bradbury uses this television and its programs as a way of showing the escape he is worried people look will look for in the future. Without actively questioning societys values, he is concerned that people will look for ways to idealyspendtheir time.Through these various diversions from normal behavior in society, Marx, John theSavage and Guy Montag are able to see the truths behind the societies they live in and areable to learn about themselves. And though their discoveries meant that their lives would be changed lies in thinking and questioning. These men found themselves through their own discoveries, much as Bradbury and Huxley hope others will do....
