Fahrenheit 451 Character Analysis

Situation: In this part of the book, Clarisse asked Montag if he was happy. He answered happy, however he started to think if he really was happy. This made him start to wonder if he really was happy.

Montag is brainwashed up until the point where he meets Clarisse and then his new curiosity blossoms. Clarisse sparks a new flame in Montag and it makes him question everything he has been doing throughout his life as a fireman.

"Montag 's hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest."

In part one of the book, it leads into how Montag begins to change. For example, “It was

"It was a pleasure to burn” (Bradbury 1). This quote represents the protagonist, Montag’s initial perspective of fire. Montag was content with his life and his job in this scene. However, all of this was to change. In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian fiction Fahrenheit 451, Montag lives in a society where reading books is illegal. Montag’s job as a fireman is to burn books and anyone who owns them. After an interesting encounter with Clarisse, Montag realizes that he has been fooled all his life. He realizes that books hold an infinite amount of knowledge. This novel follows Montag’s journey and crusade to learn the wonders books hold. From the call to

In Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag is the main character, he is a fireman and his job is to burn books. Montag is describe as "black hair, black brows…fiery face, and…blue-steel shaved but unshaved look."(Bradbury, p.33) At first in the book he seems to enjoy doing his job. He believes that, he is happy living in a utopia world and that the government is right. However, throughout the book the way he had lived his life and accepting what he had being told by the government without questioning changes, realizing he has been living in an empty society.

(SIP-A) Montag enforces laws in his society and enjoys doing so. Thus he is a fireman and agrees with the entertaining aspects of the job, (STEWE-1)”It was a pleasure to burn. It was a pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (1). Montag is like any other fireman who agrees with the parameters of his job and has no problem with burning books. In fact, he takes pride in his work and thoroughly enjoys the burning of literature. The way Montag describes the burning of books leads the reader to believe that he’s content with the laws. Nevertheless he has no problem with the way fireman are behaving, including himself, as they love

She intrigues Montag because of her pecurliarality. When she says that firemen used to put out fires, instead of igniting them, Montag laughs. Clarisse tells him, “You laugh when I haven’t been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I’ve asked you.” (Bradbury 6). Montag ponders about her statement and becomes aware of when and why he laughs. . The society was trained to laugh at the statements questions dismiss the thought. This is the first question. She then asks him, “Are you happy?” (Bradbury 7) to which he replies, “Am I what?” (Bradbury 7). This second question is the turning point of Montag’s revelation. That night he thinks about Clarisse, “How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?” (Bradbury 8). Her aura and inquiry seeped into Montag's “innermost trembling thought” and caused it to bubble up to the surface. His association with Clarisse allowed him to be brave and face the truth about his world.

Montag changes in many ways throughout the novel, making him a very dynamic character. At the beginning of the novel Montag loves what he does and thinks he is happy. When he meets Clarisse she ignites the spark in Montag. “’Are you happy?’ she said. ‘Am I what?’ he cried” (10). He then begins to dwell on whether or not he is happy and then he acts upon that decision to find out why. With the prompting of Clarisse by the middle of the story Montag was beginning to learn how to think for himself. However, he makes some very good decisions and some bad. Instead of burning his problems away like he used to do, he now works through them and learns from his mistakes. He begins coming up with plans to correct society and sabotage the profession of

In the beginning of the book, Montag is in love with fire. He cherishes it, seeing as he is a firefighter, and believes that “it was a pleasure to burn.” (1-2) He wasn’t afraid of fire, and wasn’t affected when “books went up in sparking whirls.” (1-2)

Our first character, Faber, from the novel, Fahrenheit 451, discusses the importance of integrity of oneself. Faber was an English professor that valued the community being literate, he had shown his integrity to continue teaching the community the ability to read through Montag setting up the plan to frame the firefighters. In the novel written by Bradbury, the character, Faber expresses to another character, Montag,"No, no, it's not books at all you're looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical

In the beginning of the novel, Guy Montag did everything as he was told to. He never had much thought into it. Montag to me, did not have much of a heart in the beginning. He didn't do much, he just burned the books when he was told, he didn’t think about what he was doing. Montag didn’t have any strong relationships with anyone.

Wayne Dyer once said, “ If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Guy Montag learns that when he looks deep inside himself, he finds something that is unexpected. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there are some obvious differences but if you look deeper you can see some darker differences.

In the book, The Giver, Lois Lowry stated, “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.” In Guy Montag’s society, they had to give up many things to achieve sameness. The current society may not have sameness, but we do have many other things that Montag’s society does not. Throughout Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, it has become apparent of how their society contrasts from ours.

“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (Bradbury 1). As a force of nature, fire demolishes objects uncontrollably once set free. Eating each individual object slowly, savouring the process of destruction. In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, Montag is the liberator of fire, using it to burn books, to watch them catch aflame and flutter in the air until they turn into a pile of black ash. As a fireman, Montag relishes the feeling of burning books, however, when he meets Clarisse McClellan, his perspective on his life changes. Gradually, Montag starts to shed of his skin and meets Faber, a retired English professor who feeds him with poetry and books.