Analysis Of Montag In Ray Bradbury's 'Farenheit 451'

As Montag walks home from work that night, he meets Clarisse McClellan, his 17 year old neighbor. Montag is at once taken aback by and drawn to the precocious girl's inquisitiveness. Clarisse loves nature, doesn't watch television, and hates cars that drive fast. She questions him steadily about his perception of the world, leaving him with the query "Are you happy?" Clarisse leaves a strong impression on Montag, and he continues to reflect on their brief encounter and her very different way of viewing the world. After some time, Montag comes to terms with his answer to Clarisse's final question. He is not happy.

In the novel, FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag lives in an inverted society, where firemen make fires instead of put them out, and pedestrians are used as bowling pins for cars that are excessively speeding. The people on this society are hypnotized by giant wall size televisions and seashell radios that are attached to everyone’s ears. People in Montag’s society do not think for themselves or even generate their own opinions; everything is given to them by the television stations they watch. In this society, if someone is in possession of a book, their books are burned by the firemen, but not only their books, but their entire home. Montag begins realizing that the things in this society are not right. Montag is influenced and

When Montag first met Clarisse he could tell that she was different from other people he has met before. Clarisse was very free spirited and “her face [was] bright as snow in the moonlight”(pg. 4). She was a very innocent girl who saw the world from a different perspective than Montag. Instead of living in a world full of negativity, Clarisse aimed to explore beyond reality. She talked to Montag about a world where “they needed firemen to stop the flames,” and explained how the world was very peaceful (pg. 6). Also, Clarisse saw the true man hiding beneath the uniform. Although, her ideas may not have fell in line with the rest of society, Clarisse still remained optimistic about what the world was like before this time period. In

In Fahrenheit 451 Montag meets a seventeen-year old girl that seems to change his whole world around about the way he thinks. Clarisse McClellan a young girl that sees the world a different way than others tend to. She thinks that Montag is different than other firemen because most firemen think she is crazy and just walks away from her. Clarisse has a huge imagination and is not like a regular teenager. She thinks more deeply and is bold.

Many difficult circumstances in life sometimes lead people to do things maybe a little differently. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953), It was exactly like that, except many more serious changes. This title tells a story of a man named Guy Montag whose job was to be a fireman and burn most books in a dystopian world, but through many situations he later finds out that his job isn't right, so he decides to repair society and to teach them to read books after a nuclear bombing happens over the large area. During the story, Montag's viewpoints about society change drastically throughout the story. The burning alive of the woman, Clarisse, and when Montag read the book to mildred's friends were all situations that greatly impacted Montag's viewpoints on the society.

There are 129, 864, 880 books in the world. Now imagine if there were zero. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, this is precisely the goal of firemen and the majority of society. Guy Montag has been a fireman for ten years, and he has always gotten a certain thrill from starting fires to burn houses containing books to the ground. Then Clarisse McClellan comes along and changes his perspective on everything. She says that firemen did not always use to start fires; they used to put them out, and people were not afraid. “I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise” (Bradbury 7). Clarisse questions his happiness, and Montag cannot answer confidently that he is fully happy with his life.

in a significant way.In the beginning of the novel Guy Montag was like everyone else in his

As Montag walks home from work one night, he meets a girl by the name of Clarisse McClellan, a 17 year old girl. Clarisse loves nature, does not like tv. She also questions Montag about life and the world around him. But one night before she walk into her house from a walk with Montag, she asks him a question "Are you happy". Clarisse becomes a big influence to Montag. On the rest of his walk home he thinks if he is happy, Montag realizes that he isn't happy but thought that he was happy. Montag enters his home and goes to his bedroom, in which he sees that Mildred has overdosed on sleeping pills. Doctors arrive at his house,they pump Mildred's stomach and take all of the drug out of her body.

“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” It’s the year 2020, and Kanye is president. All books have been annihilated, and no one spoke of them. Once you decide to take the risk and have hold on books, they will be burned, and you will be arrested. Guy Montag is a fireman, and his job to burn the books, instead of putting out the fires. However, he begins to question the system, after working this job for years.

(AGG) There are many things that can cause somebody to fully reject their society. (BS-1) At first Montag accepted his society. (BS-2) Then certain people then made Montag question his society. (BS-3) At the end, Montag fully rejects his society. (TS) Certain things cause people to change and eventually fully reject his society.

(MIP-1)Montag used to be completely unaware of what his society was doing and was blindly following it. (SIP-A) They were being harmed intellectually and physically, but no one could even notice. (STEWE-1)The ideal members of this society, including Montag, were completely oblivious that there is a war going on around them. ”As he stood there the sky over the house screamed. There was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black linen down the seam. Montag was cut in half. He felt his chest chopped down and split apart. The jet-bombs going over, going over, going over, one two, one two, one two, six of them, nine of them, twelve of them, one and one and one and another and another and another, did all the screaming for him. He opened his own mouth and let

In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 the protagonist Guy Montag works as a fireman. In this story firemen burn books because they have become banned. Montag sacrifices his job, freedom, and wife for the opportunity to read books and gain knowledge.

I believe the two most important turning points in the novel have to be when Montag meet Clarisse and when Montag set his house on fire then proceeded to set Beatty on fire. Meeting Clarisse was Montag's introduction to someone who wasn't the norm, who didn't fit in exactly where she was supposed to, she was smart and aware, while everyone else was supposed to be dull and slow. After he met her he started to wonder why she seemed so grateful, and through a series of events this turned over to him wondering what was in books, therefore starting the whole story. The second event was when Montag lit his house on fire himself and proceeded to burn it down. This was for him, a cleansing experience, his past life was gone. He had officially had nothing

Guy Montag, the main character in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is a man lacking a sense of any worries or cares in the world. Apparently, that is the way to live in their society, in which they are blinded by the power that the government has over their lives. His occupation is firefighting, however, he is not the modern day firefighter. Montag doesn't stop the fires, he helps ignite them. The reason behind that is, within their society they are not allowed to read books or have knowledge previous to their era. This law is enforced with such intensity because, the government fears that knowledge in one's mind will contribute to overthrowing whomever is in control or has the most power within that society. Despite the structure of the government, Montag has no problem with it and executes his job wholeheartedly, but only for a short amount of time.

In the book Fahrenheit 451 it analyzes the characteristics of a dystopia which was then turned into a story. The main character, named Montag, had a lot of different kind of people he let influence his life. He let his wife, a friend, and a random old lady build up his curiosity of the world.These three women have influenced Montag a lot which was the reason for his character growth from ignorant to enlightened which was Ray Bradbury’s tool of making the story move along. Montag’s wife, Mildred, has shown Montag how much their society has influenced their humanity as a whole. She has shown to be a perfect example of how people in their society do on an everyday basis. This helps Montag start to realize how bad their society really is. Next, his friend Clarisse was the main factor to his enlightenment mainly. She really influenced him the most because she was different than everyone else. She did normal human things, like go outside, and go on a hike or look at flowers. Because of this, she was outcasted and was not accepted. This increased Montag’s curiosity which helped him grow as a character. Lastly, the old lady who killed herself over books really put the final touch on Montag’s character growth. Her doing this boosted Montag’s curiosity tremendously because he wondered why this lady would kill herself over these books. This made him question his job, books, and ultimately the things around him. Because of this, it can be said that Ray Bradbury uses these three women