Fahrenheit 451 Captain Beatty Quotes

In Fahrenheit 451, we have Beatty who serves as a hurdle for Montag. He’s shown to be one of the antagonists against Montag. Beatty has a lot of self-pride and is manipulative as well as clever. We aren’t given a concrete description of how Beatty looks, but we are given subtle hints. In page 33, “...These men were all mirror images of himself .” In this quote Montag describes how all the firemen, including Beatty, look like him. With this quote, we can assume Beatty looks the same as the rest of the firemen. Bradbury uses Beatty as a symbol of government control. Beatty is the personification of how the government maintains control over its society by keeping its citizens happy and ignorant to the truth. To further cement this speculation in [pg number], [quote].

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury makes use of external works in the form of quotes. These quotes often expand upon the plot and improve the story. One of the most important quotes in the book is said by a woman who refuses to leave her home while her books are being burned. She recites a line from History of the British Empire (1870) "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." This was originally said by Hugh Latimer while he was being burned at the stake for heresy. Because reading and owning books is against the law, her actions can be compared to heresy, and her fate is the same as Latimer. Her death sparks a curiosity in Montag, making him wonder what

Quote one: “ He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact. Her face, turned to him now, was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it.” pg.5.

Although Beatty’s cruel, insidious personality makes him the quintessence of a villain, his hypocritical words and actions make him much more perplexing. Throughout the novel, Beatty proves to be a well-read person, although he adamantly opposes books. For example, when the old woman stays inside of her burning house just to be with her books, she shouts out “Play the man, Master Ridley!” (40), originally said by a man condemned to being burned at the stake for heresy in 1555. Beatty understood this quote to the extent that he knew who originally said it and even the date it was said, although he simply explained “I’m full of bits and pieces . . . most firemen have to be” (40). Later in the novel, Beatty uses his knowledge of literature to confuse Montag in attempts to dissuade him from books. Beatty perverts the original texts and quotes several literary works and authors to confuse Montag and at one point arrogantly states that he is “using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! You think they’re backing you up, and

After reading Captain Beatty’s speech you can tell Mildred has changes. She has been changed in many different ways, some good and some bad. Society has made her self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling. First she had changed in ways to be more self-centered. On page 18 in the book Fahrenheit 451, the book says, “‘It’s only two thousand dollars.’

PLOT • Beatty orders Montag to burn his house. After Montag finished burning his house, Beatty arrests Montag • Montag uses the fire thrower and burns Beatty • After burning Beatty & Mechanical Hound, Montag goes home and seem to notice that Mildred was missing • He hears police forces warning the society to look out for him • He goes to Faber’s house and Faber tells him to goes to the old railroad tracks out of town CHARACTER Montag: Montag is shown to be sneaky. When Montag realizes there’s a gas station nearby, he seems to wash his filthy face and hands so he will look less suspicious. This discovery is shown through the following passage: “He washed his hands and face and toweled himself dry, making little sound. He came out of the washroom and shut the door carefully… " (125).

Why does Beatty quote Montag from books that he has burned? Why would a well-educated, well-read man despise knowledge? (See p. 169-172 of Bradbury’s Afterword for more insight on this)

Beatty's voice had an impact on Fahrenheit 451, which convinces their society that life with our books is a better way of life. Even though Beatty had lived with the life of books and gave him his creativity, he continues to believe life is better without them. "Captain Beatty, the fire chief, sees burning books as a way to make everyone equal" (Lenhoff, 2). This evidence proves that as the captain of the firefighters, Beatty has an impact on the rest of the firemen which has them agreeing on the fact that life without books will make everyone equal by not knowing the knowledge in them. Since having books became to be such a negative influence in their society, firemen became responsible for burning them. "Pursuit of happiness displaced liberty,

Firemen set fire to books rather than extinguish flames in buildings in the future depicted in Fahrenheit 451

Captain Beatty was a character that I disliked from the moment I met him till the end of the novel. The reason for not liking Captain Beatty is a complex reason because he is not a character that goes out of his way to hurt Guy, he actually attempts to allow him to read a few books and work on his curiosity. The reason for my dislike of this character is because of his constant contradictions to himself as well to Guy. He is the leader of the firemen whose job is to burn books however he has vast knowledge of these books and seems to care very deeply about the books. He allows Guy one night to read as many of the books as he wants but in the morning he must turn them in because it is against the rules. However, he is also the man that makes Guy burn his own books after he is turned in by his own wife. He calls these books “treacherous weapons” however, through the knowledge he has gained from these books he is able to manipulate every one of the other firemen into doing what he wants. He does not use his knowledge to better the world or the people around him and that is why he is disliked by

In the beginning of the book, Guy is shown to be the antagonist, because he was working as a fireman. You may think “ why would someone working as a fireman be bad”. Well in this story firemen don’t stop fires, but instead, they do the opposite. A fireman's duty is to burn down the books and the house the book came from. At this point of the book, Guy enjoyed spraying the kerosene, and watching the bright red flames, he didn’t mind walking into his house listening to Mildred, his wife talking to her “family” on the tv wall. To me, Guy is the type of antagonist that does whatever he is told without thinking, basically like a controlled bad guy. He doesn’t really know what his purpose is in life. Guy thinks that being a fireman is an honor and that he is saving those who have ruined their minds with the gibberish you call a book.Everything changed once Guy met

In the book,”The Lord Of The Flies”, William Golding writes about a group of boys stranded on an uninhabited island. There are four boys that are important to the story: simon, ralph, jack, and piggy, yet each have different views of what is and isn’t important to survival. But only one manifest any sign of intelligence. Piggy the boy who believed that law and order should be kept throughout their time on the island. The little boy who lost his parents at a young age, the one who would seem as if he would be the least capable of survival on the island, piggy is the only “intellectual of the island.

The author of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. Throughout his life Bradbury was married to Marguerite McClure and had four children with her, Susan Nixon, Ramona Ostergren, Bettina Karapetian and Alexandra BradBury. Bradbury graduated from high school in 1938, during the great depression, therefore did not have the funds to attend college. According to www.Biography.com/people/ray-bradbury, Bradbury stated, ‘“[i] couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three times a week for 10 years’” (“Ray”). He became a very successful and well respected writer, according to his website, http://www.Raybradbury.com/, “In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury has inspired generations

Jack is represented as malevolent and violent. Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding. The book follows a group of boys who are stranded on an island and are trying to find a way to “govern” themselves. Throughout the book the character’s experience their up’s and downs and they find out characteristics about themselves they never knew they had.

"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." (2.386) Unlike Charles Blow view on books, Captain Beatty’s passion for books are very different. Charles Blow is from a poor family, but loves to read. Captain Beatty is a fire captain and would love to burn all books no matter the genre. Books, to Charles, were his life. He evolved his education around reading books. While some differences between Charles Blow and Captain Beatty are evident, the similarities are salient.