Fahrenheit 451 Character Analysis

When he came home from this first unplanned meeting he found his wife laying on her bed, unconscious, because of she overdosed on sleeping pills. But, emergency responders come to their house and performed an operation to bring Montag’s wife, Mildred back to perfect health. They get her back to perfect health by pumping new blood into her system, but this new blood makes Mildred forget everything that happened the night before. After this event he has more and more meetings with Clarisse and she starts to influence his personality by making him more and more dissatisfied with how society is run. Clarisse makes him realize that books are not a real problem in society and the government portrays this problem for a reason unknown by Montag. This belief becomes so influenced upon him by Clarisse that he even starts stealing books from houses he helps burn down. Clarisse suddenly disappears making the reader infer she died. This combined with his very little knowledge and curiosity of books caused him to have psychological illnesses that refrained him from going to work and let him stay home and read the books that have been banned for the entirety of his life. But, Montag’s change of behavior and his constant missing of work causes his boss, captain beatty, to become

“The future is not something we enter, the future is something we create” -Anonymous. Fahrenheit 451 is a futuristic story where people do not read books, enjoy nature, spend time by themselves, think independently, or have meaningful conversations. The main character, Guy Montag, is a firefighter who burns books. The firefighters start fires instead of putting them out. One day, he meets a young woman named Clarisse who opens his eyes on how boring his life really is by asking questions and by showing how much she loves people and nature. Clarisse and Guy start to talk almost daily and some very unordinary events go on in Guy’s life that are somewhat shocking which push him to a breaking point. Guy begins reading books he has stolen from some of the fires he started. Montag is one of the few people in his community that figured out that living without books or nature makes for a very dull life.

In the fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the majority of depicted characters are the “bad” people in society. However, there are several “good” people who are the ones that add what little positivity there is in this dystopian novel. In the early stages of Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist, Guy Montag, might have been thought of as a senseless, sadistic monster who only enjoys his job as a fireman, or more correctly, a book burner. Although seemingly correct, these descriptions of him would be rendered completely false after Montag’s encounter with the second “good” person, Clarisse McClellan. Clarisse can be characterized as an inquisitive and joyful young girl and for these reasons, a pariah. She is directly responsible

In the first chapter Montag meets a girl that was in the corner of the street while he was walking home from work. Her name is Clarisse McClellan and she is seventeen years old. She doesn’t go to school because everyone thinks she weird. On their way home Clarisse was telling him a lot of things that got his mind thinking. He got home one night to find his wife Mildred overdosed on sleeping pills. He called some people

Liquid, molten, scarlet fire burst upon the the kerosene soaked books, enclosing all of them with a sucking, sizzling howl. Draining the life out of each precious page, under the twinkling twilight stars. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury takes Guy Montag through a series of conflicts with the government, in a dystopian society, where the firemen rules. Guy Montag, the protagonist of the story changes as a result of conflict with his dystopian society and this will lead to the theme of the novel, Knowledge is power.

The name “Faber” signifies control and manipulation to me. His personality can be very timid and heroic by turns. In this story, Faber's function as a character is to have authority over Montag via his two-way radio to conclude the things his distress has prevented him from doing himself. Faber either helps Montag have a mind of his own or tries to rule him.

As the story continues, Montag’s secrets and his actual personality become too slowly reveal itself with his first encounter with Clarisse McClellan. This encounter happened one night when he was walking home from the fire station and noticed Clarisse standing in the moonlight. As they both walk together, he notices and brightly lit house.

Set in the twenty-fourth century, Fahrenheit 451 introduces a new world in which control of the masses by the media, overpopulation, and censorship has taken over the general population. The individual is not accepted and the intellectual is considered an outlaw. Television has replaced the common perception of family. The fireman is now seen as a flamethrower, a destroyer of books rather than an insurance against fire. Books are considered evil because they make people question and think. The people live in a world with no reminders of history or appreciation of the past; the population receives the present from television.

In the beginning of the novel, Guy Montag meets Clarisse, who assists him in opening up his perspectives about life and the society they live in. Through conversations with Montag Clarisse teaches him about appreciating and observing the small aspects of life. Through their conversations she also teaches Montag that the firemen didn’t always start fires to burn books they once put out fires. These encounters and conversations with Clarisse teach Montag many pieces of information. Clarisse and her knowledge guide him to start questioning what he knows and how his society is. She sets him on the path of knowledge and teaches him many pieces of information that help him immensely. Clarisse was very important to Montag's transformation, however, she was just the start and there were other events that guided him further into his transformation

books. Being a fireman he came to a house that a women had stored all her books in. The lady who'd rather die than to not have her books made Montag think.Guy Montag was so curious to of why she was willing to die over books. Montag began to think more, and began being the odd one out in society.

Some small things that no one ever notices leaves or is obtained by a person might make them a new person that no one knows. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character Guy Montag changes by meeting many people who change him to read books instead of burn them. As results Guy Montag has to change from being a person who never thought about anyone to being someone who killed to protect someone he cared for.

Clarisse has a big impact on Montag’s development. “He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shiny drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet ambers that might capture and hold him intact.” On page 7 is an example that shows Montag not only see’s himself in Clarisse physically but mentally. This also shows that Montag is trying to figure out how a seventeen year old could make him think so deeply. Another quote is on page 7,”So many people are. Afraid of firemen, I mean. But you’re just a man, after all…” This shows that Clarisse is different, while others fear firefighters she isn’t. Clarisse views them as just people. This also shows that Clarisse is a friendly person and not easily convinced by others. Another quotes is when it says,”Then she seemed to remember something and came back to look at him with wonder and curiosity,”Are you happy? She said.” On page

Guy Montag is the main character in Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” Guy is a fireman and leads an ordinary life with his wife, Mildred. In the book, a fireman is one who starts fires instead of putting them out. Guy’s particular responsibility is to burn books, which have been deemed by the government to be a bother to society. The firemen are called upon to search for, seize, and destroy any books throughout the city. Usually, citizens report or turn in their neighbors, if they believe their neighbors are hiding books in their home. Then, the firemen come and search the home for books, and burn them if any are found. Most of the citizens are satisfied with the book burning, because it leads to a dystopian society, in which everyone enjoys equality. Guy Montag, however, becomes convinced that saving the books is the right thing to do. In order for Montag to save the books, he not only has to break the law and go against the government, he also must abandon his responsibility as a fireman. Yet, Montag commits to saving the books because he values books more than technology, he recognizes that he can gain information from them, and he desires for the citizens to discover their own individuality.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag’s character and beliefs changed completely. Guy lived in a society in which the government outlawed books because they caused people to think. Without the stories, the citizens blindly followed their government. Throughout the novel, the main character Guy Montag discovered that there was a reason that books were burned- because the knowledge kept inside caused people to question authority. Rather than allow the people to keep thinking, burning most of the books caused people to stop reading and turn to other pleasure activities. According to page 58, “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?” (Bradbury, 1953). Instead of keeping their minds churning, inquiring, and rebelling, it was easier for the citizens to forgo books altogether. Guy spent most of his life as one of the many people who saw books as evil and needed to be burned. That was until he met a few people with unique perspectives. All of these people, such as Mildred, his wife, Faber, and Clarisse all altered his perspective on the world and the stories all hidden away. By the ending of the story, Montag had transformed into a completely different person. He wanted more out of his life and discovered that he could save his burning society by bringing back books and poetry. He eventually realized that the knowledge inside the books would make the risks

“‘Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth’”(John F. Kennedy). In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Guy Montag, is a fireman who burns books, which are illegal. Montag questions society and decided to read, soon becoming a fugitive. Guy Montag’s ideology changes and grows throughout the novel with the help of important events. At first, Montag enjoys burning books, but soon he begins to save the very books he is supposed to burn. Montag then rejects his society completely by reading books and becoming a fugitive.