Critical Analysis Of Fahrenheit 451

I mean, well, once upon a time …” (34). This shows us that has been reading books before. Therefore, he would have eventually seen books as tools of knowledge, instead of bringing people to depressing lives. This also shows that Montag is asking questions regarding the history of the firemen, which tells

The professor showed Montag that books have details, significance, and are valuable. Through Montag’s encounters with Clarisse, the old woman and Faber, he realizes that the time he had spent burning books was wrong. This persuaded him to change his life.

The consequence of this behavior could send Montag to prison, which Montag does not care about. After reading several books Montag talks with his close friend, Faber, and says to him "We have everything to be happy, but we're not happy" .What Montag tells Faber at that moment is really an expression of how he started analyzing more after starting reading books. Although Montag's love life changes and his view of society are changed too, this is not the only change Montag must admit. In the start of the book Montag is delighted in the work of burning illegal books and the homes of where they are found. However, as the book progresses, Montag becomes increasingly disgruntled, as he realizes that he has an empty, unfulfilling life. A point that shows that Montag in the start of the book is happy about his job is when he hangs up his helmet and shines it; hangs up his jacket neatly; showers luxuriously, and then, whistling walks across the upper floor.

Throughout the book, the reader is challenged to decide what happiness consists of: ignorance or knowledge. As Montag grows throughout the book, he finds that knowledge is the only thing that will set him free and grant him happiness. Montag has lived most of his life unhappy, and the only thing he knows is missing is the knowledge books contain, “Nobody listens to me anymore. 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. And maybe if I talk long enough it’ll make sense.” (Pg.82) Nobody listens to Montag because they recognize he wants to learn. Everyone in this society had been taught that knowing is bad. Montag frightens those around him into leaving him; this ultimately makes him realize that his quest for knowledge may feel lonely at times, but will end in him finding happiness. Once Montag meets the rebels he is taught about how the world used to

Juan Ramon Jimenez once said, “If they give you ruled paper, write the other way”. This quote shows the challenge of authority, like Montag and his society. Just like challenging the normal, or doing the opposite of what seems to be right by “writing the other way” on a lined piece of paper, Montag chooses to challenge authority by reading, remembering, and comprehending books, instead of burning them. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury takes place in a dystopian society in the twenty-fourth century and the main character is Guy Montag. He is a fireman whose job is to burn books and start fires instead of putting them out. Moreover, he lives in a society which just listens to government propaganda and follows whatever they are told; the citizens do not think deeply about aspects in life but rather focus on mind-numbing activities, that does not take any deep thought process. Books are banned but Montag takes the risk to start to read books, hoping they will bring him happiness in the dark world he lives in. In his journey he has three mentors who help him, Clarisse, Faber, and Granger. The protagonist, Guy Montag, changes as a result of the conflict within his dystopian society and this change connects to the novel’s theme of government censorship over its citizens.

Another incident that stayed in Montag 's mind is the old women who set her self and her books on fire. However, Montag tried stopping her by telling her that the books were not worth her life. Before she burned herself, Montag took one of her books and kept it. At that time Montag did not think about what did the old lady burned herself with the books, he did not think about it might be the value and morals that books hold to teach is. The old lady knew the importance of these books and what do they have, so she preferred to burn herself with them, and not watch the firemen burn them, who do not even know the importance of books. But they do know that books are unreal and there is so importance of them, plus they are against the law!

Therefore, through books, Montag becomes conscious of the monotony of his previous life, and now rebels against the very foundations of his society. Due to this intellectual illumination, Montag begins to acknowledge the details of the world around him, details he had once ignored: ‘”Bet I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass this morning.”’As enlightenment dawns on Montag, he finally begins to realise the power within books (i.e. they hold the key to power through knowledge) and this is his ‘crime’ against society: ‘There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house...’ Despite his newfound interest, Montag is still struggling to understand the concept of literature. Once again however, Montag is pushed in the right direction by Professor Faber. Under Faber’s guidance, Montag recognises that ‘There is nothing magical about [books] at all. The magic is only with what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment.’ This quote exemplifies the fact that although books are the combination of mere ink and paper, it is the beliefs and the knowledge within a book that are so incredibly powerful.

Montag at the beginning of the book is a person that you could love and hate. Montag was a person who loved his job as a firefighter. To Montag he got pleasure out of burning the books. One of Montag's favorite things from burning the books was he would put a marshmallow and put it on a stick and roast it.When Montag's done and goes home he goes to bed with a smile on his face. Then everything changes once he meets Clarisse.

In both Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Vonnegut’s “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, the authors show major concerns about the future. Bradbury’s major concern is the misuse of technology that leads to the corruption of society while Vonnegut’s major concern is overpopulation and the lack of natural resources for the future. Both authors show concerns that can turn out to be real if people do not do anything about the environment and about technology.

Montag’s entire system of beliefs changes when Guy meets a couple of people with unique perspectives, Clarisse McClellan and Professor Faber. Clarisse McClellan is a seventeen year old girl who Montag met while walking down the street one night. She claims she is crazy and always seeks out the answers to questions that nobody else thinks to ask. Faber is an ex-professor who is old enough to have watched the decline of intellectual life in his country. Montag once met Faber in the park carrying a book of poetry on his person and quoting it. Nevertheless, Guy does not turn Faber in to the authorities for possession of a forbidden book, but keeps Faber’s personal information. These two people alter Montag’s perspective on the world and the stories concealed in it by the media and government. By the ending of the story, Montag transforms into a completely different person who, desiring more out of his life, discovers that he can save his burning society by bringing back books and poetry. Therefore, Montag changes throughout the course of the story by beginning to question authority and doubt the ways of his life and society. From the beginning to the ending, Montag transforms through the influence of the people in his life.

Montag grows consistently dissatisfied with his life and work the more he talks with Clarisse. He starts to ponder if perhaps books aren’t so bad, and even snatches one from one of his book burning missions. Meanwhile Clarisse disappears, which I assumed she was dead and his boss, Captain Beatty, is growing suspicious. He lectures Montag on the potential hazards of books and explains the origin and history of their profession. Far from rejuvenated, Montag feels blazing anger and becomes more dangerously rebellious than ever. He spends one afternoon with his wife reading his secret stash of books he’s been storing behind his ventilator grill and decides he needs a teacher. He takes a Christian Bible and tries to memorize some of it on his trip.

Each fireman has “black hair, black brows, a fiery face and a blue-steel shaved but unshaved look,” which makes Montag realize how his society is so censored(33). The firefighters and Montag burn books and are content doing so, but between each fire Montag’s interaction with McClellan creates an internal change for Montag. He smuggles a book from a house fire after catching a glimpse of some words and becoming even more curious. Because the society has censored the reading of books from society Montag’s physical action is extremely risky. The rule of society are broken when Montag takes the book and expresses his interest in it by reading. Such restrained societal rules push Montag to read and discover a plethora of knowledge in each book. Montag believes that if one is willing to die for books, then a greater meaning lies within. Thus, he strives even more to understand why the society is conformed and censored and wants to earn the knowledge that the society has censored out for so many years prior, and these actions define him as a deviant, rebellious protagonist toward

Before the experiences he was merely a man going about his normal life doing his job and coming back to the same house repeating the conflicting actions of his job everyday; destroying all the knowledge and books that he would in his life without change. Bradbury describes him as this normal man by stating, “He hung up his black-colored helmet and shined it; he hung up his flameproof jacket neatly; he showered luxuriously, and then, whistling, hands in pockets, walked across the upper floor of the fire station.” (Bradbury 2). This is one of the earliest instances where Montag is portrayed as just this normal man going about his normal routine day. The only problem is that he is living this routine within a broken society and that there is so much more that he could be doing to help fix his society. Rather than destroy the knowledge within books, which his job and routine requires him to do, he can be preserving their necessary texts. The thought of changing his life causes conflict within him though, and he is forced to realize that he can no longer be allowed to burn. His experiences are the main cause of this new found importance and he becomes vital to the preservation of knowledge and books by the time the story ends. Granger even reminds Montag that he made a good choice in changing his ways by explaining, “See how important you’ve become in the last minute!”( Bradbury

Ordinarily, he initiated deeds he reckoned he would never do prior to reading books. Montag congregates people who memorises books, conceals from the government, and typically continues to read books. He takes utmost risks and goes through with them each moment, and that sets a stage where he is content with what he is doing because he has been able to accommodate his situation by trying to do the right thing. Before the unfamiliar feelings, he was simply a firefighter who burn books, slept, went to work, ate, etc. It was as repetitive as it got and Montag decided he did not want to live like that anymore since he wanted to be happy. If being happy meant jeopardizing of all his material things and his life, the authorities could take it because it clearly did not have a significant purpose without his source of

Throughout your life you've alwyas had the upper-hand, you have a well paying job, you are technologically advanced, and a highly respected individual. You see no present void in your life, and you're happy. One day, on your way home, you stumble upon a girl. After conversating with her, you are overwhelmed with the presence of her knowledge. Desperately wanting to understand the philosophy behind her words, you become fixated on intelligance, love, and the many more forbidden things of society. You soon realize what's beyond the law is saturated with captivating opportunity. So, do you stay in your shackles of society, or do you incinerate the walls of what's impractical? "Fargenheit 451" presents the vigorous journey of a man who risks everything