Analysis Of Montag's Fahrenheit 451

Many people talk about how the world is slowly caving in as people are desensitized emotionally. Opposers suggest that it is technology’s fault for sucking a person’s mind into oblivion twenty four hours a day. However, it is the people themselves who are going to bring about their own destruction. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the actions of the public perfectly exemplifies a worst-case scenario of the future coming to mayhem. In this world, books not accepted by the law are burned by “firefighters” so that everyone is taught the same information. Nobody strays from the “truth”, and this way, everyone is treated equally. There is no nerd and there is no bully. The public is encouraged to listen to live streams of people talking in headphone devices called seashells. Yet for one man in particular, Guy Montag, he struggled between fitting in with the public or pursuing an “itch” he has always had. These feelings started when he had a short talk with his neighbor, Clarisse McClellan. In school, Clarisse has always been seen as an outcast, yet by Montag, her strange facts of realization intrigued him. She knew curious information that he did not, and this made him angry. It was not until she mysteriously disappeared that he really started to understand the depth to her words. She knew more about life, and he was determined to find the same information in the forbidden books. Ironically, Montag was a firefighter, but he

People can change due to the influence of other people. Guy Montag changes from being a book burning monster to an independent knowledge seeker due to the influences of Clarisse McClellan. Montag in Fahrenheit 451 by: Ray Bradbury shows how he acted before he changed, after meeting Clarisse, and after meeting Faber.

Guy Montag, the main character in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, goes through a huge change in his life. He changes from a typical fireman who follows the laws, into a person who challenges the law. Montag wakes up from being numbed and realizes that he is unhappy. Montag 's wife, "Mildred", who is addicted to Television and radio, did not care about Montag 's feelings. However; Clarisse and Faber played a big role in Montag 's life. Montag is a metaphor for a numbed society and his courage is demonstrated as he wakes up and evolves into his real human self throughout the book.

(SIP-A) Montag questions his own happiness and the society around him. (STEWE-1) Montag is questioned about his own happiness, “Are you happy?” (7), causing him to start questioning the society he lives in. “He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs”(9). He realizes that he is not as happy like the rest of the people in the society believe they are, he knows something is missing. “When did we meet and where?” (40) Montag questioned his wife Mildred when they met and they both could not remember. (STEWE-2) Montag now knows that something in his life is missing but he just does not know what forcing him to ask questions. “Well wasn’t there a wall between him and Mildred, when you came down to it? Literally not just one wall but, so far, three! And expensive too” (41). He needs someone to hear him out and listen to what he has to say because at the moment he has nobody that he can talk to. “Nobody listens any more. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say”(78). Montag resorts to his old friend Faber that he can talk to about everything. (SIP-B) Montag knows what is missing in the society. (STEWE-1) Montag eventually finds out that the happiness/knowledge factor is missing in their society, that everyone is being

Montag, as the main protagonist of Fahrenheit 451, is a highly dynamic character.His new found want to learn, understand the world and fix the issues, he himself was blind to for years, makes him a relatable characterization for human curiosity. His society views “free thought” as a menace to the collective good despite seeing the signs that the entire system is failing. Mass suicides, endorphine powered joy rides, and murder have replaced human thought and compassion. His ability to break against the grain gifts him with both disadvantages and advantages as he faces new obstacles throughout the novel.

Montag's attempts to rectify the damage his distorted society has cast upon humanity parallels with the prisoner’s return to the cave, where his newfound beliefs are rejected out of fear. Despite Montag's intentions, the public only attacks him, berates him and labels him a criminal for acting out and rebelling against the society’s wishes. Montag’s attempts to “sear all their faces and wake them up” only result in failure (Bradbury 128), as after all, the public is too afraid. Any threat to the fragile peace the society holds is automatically fought against. The members themselves protect the status quo by isolating outsiders who think differently, as Clarisse explains to Montag, “The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten

People always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. This is the case as well in Fahrenheit 451, the novel, written by Ray Bradbury, is the story that follows a normal man, Guy Montag, who lived a normal life in his civilization post apocalptic as a fireman. Although where he is from, it is not a fireman’s duty to put out fires, but rather to burn books. It is because of his profession he battled his conscience to find answers to his many questions. Throughout this book, Montag changed his perceptive on literature in his society for the better because he became a critical thinker and stopped being passive like everyone else where

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

Montag has become fully-involved and wants to do something about this dystopia due to being motivated by his emotions. “‘I’m going to do something,’ said Montag. ‘I don’t even know what yet, but I’m going to do something big.’”(62). Earlier in the story, Montag realizes how messed up this society is. He goes to Faber’s house after remembering his future investigations folder and believes Faber could somehow help him make a change. Faber shows Montag about his master plan and involves him so he could become a pawn, “‘Proof of my terrible cowardice. I’ve lived alone so many years, throwing images on walls with my imagination. Fiddling with electronics, radio transmission, has been my hobby. My cowardice is of such a passion, complementing the

“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” It’s thousands of years later, and there’s not a single book in sight. If you hide a book, you’ll be arrested, and your books will be burned. Guy Montag is a fireman, and his job to burn the books. However, he begins to question the system, after working this job for years.

running alone in the night city, the only man proving his legs...he felt the city rise… he felt the city turn to its thousands of doors… the people sleepwalking in their hallways… he felt their hands on doorknobs… he ran out away from the last row of houses, on a slope leading down to a solid moving blackness” (132). This scene makes it obvious that Montag is encountering the most unforeseeable, uncharted state of runaway fugitive. Bradbury is almost trying to inform the reader that is Montag experiencing the “abyss” as the narrator specifically claims that Montag ran down a row of houses and, lacking any option, was forced to go into “the darkness”. Acknowledging that it would be impossible for him to remain in the city, considering not

In Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the author displays the life of a fireman, Guy Montag, whose job is to start fires rather than putting them out. All of that changes when he meets a seven-teen year old girl named Clarisse McClellan on walk back to his house. The people in their society do not read books, take time by themselves, or even think independently. They prefer to watch an extravagant amount of television and to be anti-social. By having met Clarisse, Montag is able to connect with her in a way that he isn’t able to with his wife Mildred, or even anyone.

Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books in future America. The people in future America don’t read books, having meaningful conversations, or enjoy the moment. They all listen to the radio or watch t.v . soon montag meets Clairsse who opens his world to the nothingness of his life with her love for people and nature. The next few days his wife Mildred attempts suicide by swallowing sleeping pills later on a elderly women decides to burn with her books then Clarisse is hit by a car and killed. Montag soons becomes dissatisfied with his life and begins to look for an answer in his secret stash of books he has hidden. His chief later visits his house explaining why books were banned in the first place. His chief later gives him 24 hours to read

Guy Montag third generation fireman who burns books for a living. He lives in the future Dystopian society where he burns books as fireman instead of putting out fires. It is because books are considered criminal because of the way they make people think without restrictions and questioning the society. He is married to his wife name Mildred and has no kids. He lives in a city which the government has taken over with censorship, over population and the governing of the multitudes by the media. Montag goes about his normal life as any other citizen in the culture at the beginning of the book. But within a short week and after meeting people he begins to question society. He becomes a man whose curiosity gets the best of him. He begins reading

From my reading of the text, I was immediately appealed by her unique qualities; most notably her ability to converse with a complete stranger. In her encounter with Montag, a local ‘fireman’ she candidly asks: ‘Do you mind if I walk back with you?’. Despite her question being rebuffed by Montag, she continues to persistently interact with the man by asking him about the genre of ‘books’ he must ‘burn’ to eradicate potential sources of unhappiness in this fictional world. To me, her forthright & chatty nature is indeed alluring.