Examples Of Action In Fahrenheit 451

And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling, gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him. There was a hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a redhot stove, a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous black snail to cause a terrible liquefaction and a boiling over of yellow foam. Montag shut his eyes, shouted, shouted, and fought to get his hands at his ears to clamp and to cut away the sound. Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent’(Bradbury 113). Montag's hands pull the trigger to kill Beatty, because he was being cruel and attacking his friends and his passion, books, which also represented

Beatty uses manipulation against Montag to confuse him. An example of this is when Beatty argues that books are worthless even if they work in your favor, because someone will use knowledge from the same book against you. According to page 107, "What traitors books can be! You think they’re backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives."

Dalai Lama once said that “Real power has to do with one’s ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.” The story Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a futuristic city as the main character, Guy Montag tries to figure out why firemen burn books instead of putting out fires and read books. Throughout his life, he meets many people such as Clarisse, Beatty, Mildred, Faber, and Granger who all change his life in numerous ways. As Montag learns more about the job of a fireman and why books should not be read he becomes more curious and decides to take a book after one fell on him, this decision changed his life forever. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the minor characters: Clarisse, Captain Beatty, and Faber effect the main character, Montag,

Because you know that he is angry and from reading before you know that he had been wanting to reveal his secret but he didn't have the courage but the anger just built up inside him and he snapped. His next step was to make everyone else see what he sees. When Beatty told Montag to burn his own house montag had already broken so he knew what he had to do. When he was alone with Beatty he had his chance to make his statement. "We never burned right..." (Bradbury 113) Montag is now gone full psycho trying to get his message though everyone's head but in reality this is what it really feels like. When no one sees what's

The author uses imagery to develop the characters Montag and Beatty. At first Montag was able to do his job (burning books) without giving a second thought. Throughout the story Montag grows an appreciation for books. This dramatic change is shown in the first paragraph of the passage as Montag’s burning of books is described. The

For example on pages 102-104, Beatty uses many quotes to confuse Montag. Beatty quotes Samuel Johnson saying, “He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty” (Page 103). He doesn’t want Montag to question the Firemen, and or do anything rash. Beatty also quotes Shakespeare when he sees that Montag will kill him. On Page 113 he says, “There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am arm’d so strong in honesty that the pass by me as an idle wind,which I respect not!”. This quote is from Julius Caesar, in which Brutus is speaking to Cassius about threats. Beatty is so secure in his belief that the government should restrict books, that he would not be afraid to die for it. Montag sees this, and kills Beatty. The allusions to Shakespeare in the novel are important because many regard Shakespeare to be the greatest writer of all time, and it is fitting that their government would want to burn his

In the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury develops characters by using many forms of figurative language in order to reveal information about a central character, Clarisse. In the text, Bradbury uses similes, metaphors, and personification to expose more about the characters in Fahrenheit 451, such as Clarisse, a friend of the main character Montag. Characterization occurs through the metaphors, similes, and personification used in the text, such as on page 18, when Clarisse is described by Bradbury, stating, “Her face was slender and milk-white.” In this metaphor, Clarisse is described as having a face as white as milk. White can represent purity and innocence, which reveals that Clarisse, too, is pure and innocent. The image of

Beatty uses his knowledge to attack Montag after the fireman has made the decision to join the radicals and to oppose the burning of books. Montag returns to the fire station in order to surrender a book, creating the illusion of conforming to Beatty’s expectations. Before Montag has an opportunity to speak Beatty begins to confound him with contradictory statements from

Although Beatty decides to reject what he learned when given the opportunity to read books, Beatty is unhappy with his life as a fireman and persuades Montag to kill him by using pathos as shown through his words and actions. Firstly, Beatty orders Montag to burn Montag’s own house, creating anger and sadness within Montag. Messing with Montag’s emotions makes it a pathos appeal. This action alone does not make Montag kill Beatty, but it does push to that goal. In addition, Beatty continues to irritate Montag by insulting him, saying “It was the act of a silly, damn snob” (Bradbury 118). Even though Montag was acting like a snob, or a stuck-up individual, when he read the “Dover Beach” poem to Mildred and her friends, Beatty calling Montag

In Montag 's case, he understands that he is unhappy with the way he is living, and he begins to rethink his ways of destruction. In like manner, a literary criticist, Rafeeq McGiveron, gives a good analysis of the character of Montag when he says that Montag has a “blithely clear and pathetically blank conscience” towards burning books until he relives his childhood through walks with Clarisse (p.6). Clearly, Clarisse tugged and Montag 's heart and helped him understand the heartlessness of burning books. Most definitely, it was Montag 's hand and not his brain or mind that was the true monster. In another example, the reader sees Montag 's private life during a conversation between he and Mildred, his wife, when she says, “when can we have a fourth wall television put in? It 's only two thousand dollars” and Montag responds by saying that two thousand dollars is one-third of his yearly pay (Bradbury 33). The example presented adds more depth to the grim life of the main character because Montag is married to a woman that is selfish and has no interest for any part of Montag 's life. Similarly, because Montag is faced with unhappiness in both his professional and private life, he is quick to accept the words of Clarisse that there is a better and brighter life possible for him. Overall, Bradbury successfully acomplishes a sense of sympathy for Guy Montag by revealing the

Firstly, Montag faces the conflict of having to burn down a house with a woman in it, which led him to thinking that something important may be hidden within the books that could be different from what he has learning in this new version of society; Montag becomes more curious through this event and starts to wonder. Eventually, the protagonist is so deeply engrossed in his curiosity that “his hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest” (Bradbury 34). This quote illustrates

Living in a world of burning books and following authority like sheeps. This world was created in the book Fahrenheit 451 published on October 1953 by Ray Bradbury. I read this book my sophomore year of highschool, it was required for my english-10 class.There are multiple forms of rhetoric used in Fahrenheit 451 to guide the reader to the mindset of individuality. The lesson applied in the book are about conformation is bad for society, yet it will happen, blind obedience is bad, and the last lesson is knowledge is more powerful than the forefront.

Throughout the story, Bradbury uses his writing to represent how miserable of a character Montag is. There is a point in the story where Montag is looking at himself in the mirror and takes a look at how saddened he really is. In the text, Montag talks about how “He was not happy. - He wore his happiness like a mask” (12). In this text, it is shown that the main character is realizing how truly sad and unhappy he feels. Generally, people notice if they're unhappy at the moment instead of waiting longer and being even sadder. When Montag is reading a poem to his wife's friends he gets sentimental and reminisces about how the society he lives in is. Bradbury writes that Montag felt “He wanted to cry, but nothing would happen to his eyes or mouth” (77). In this other part of the text, it's shown how sentimental Montag is towards his society. Montag is unhappy because of how his society functions with

With the use of asyndeton, polysyndeton, and fragments, Bradbury makes the reader feel as if he or she is Montag struggling throughout parts of the book. For instance, when describing the sounds he heard in the dark from his overdosed wife, Montag narrates that “the breath coming out the nostrils was so faint it stirred only the farthest

Now on both of their behalves they really did not have the same view into the dystopian society. Montag believed it was wrong to burn books, and Mildred did not care about nothing including Montag and them books. “It is easy to read the women in Fahrenheit 451 as stock, one-dimensional characters, set up only to illustrate the opposite poles between which Montag struggles.” Montag does not realize he struggles to see the differences in him and women. “Although Montag has not yet recognized the problem with this reduction of happiness to a step below hedonism, a kind of vicarious hedonism, in which even sensation is often artificially provided, Beatty seems aware of it." Beatty realizes something different before Montag has the chance to. “Before Montag can begin to recognize his connection to others and to his inhuman society, however, he needs to reconnect with himself, reestablish his relationship with the world.”