Fahrenheit 451 Character Analysis

He was in fight or flight mode and wasn't thinking. Now he is starting to understand how the government is treating the citizens unfairly, and how he can’t think his own way. On page 49, it says, “And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I’d never even thought that thought before” (Bradburry 49). Montag couldn’t think for himself because the government told him what was right and wrong. Now he is thinking for himself and seeing how corrupt the government is. Later, Montag gets caught and finally has to be speak for himself. On page 112, it says, “We’ll take this and drop in on your friend.” “No!” said Montag” (Bradburry 112). Beatty catches Montag with the earpiece and is trying to make montag feel like he is the one at fault. Montag screams back and says “no”! He is thinking for himself and protecting his friend by concealing and not giving his name up. After Montag screams “no” at Beatty, the situation escalated very quickly. Page 113, writes, “Montag only said, “we never burned right….” “Hand it over, Guy,” said Beatty with a fixed smile. And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him” (Bradburry 113). Beatty is

Unquestionably, all novels can convey multiple meanings depending on a variety of factors with the most important being the manner in which the audience interprets the author’s words. More importantly, to professionally draw conclusions concerning the message the author demonstrates throughout a text, it is essential to discuss and apply the five literary elements of literature to the text. In greater detail, when a work itself is criticized or evaluated, usually one literary element is focused on to prove an argument pertaining to a novel. To bring the topic into focus, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 possesses many points that could be argued in contradictory ways based upon factual

Have you ever read a book you enjoyed a lot? Well if not read Fahrenheit 451. The author of the book is Ray Bradbury. There are many characters, but one of the main, main ones is Montag. Montag is a person who changes quite a bit throughout the story. Montag goes from being conservative to being a rebel.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, there are many different characters and each one plays a different role. One of the main characters, Guy Montag, is a fireman who takes pride in his work and enjoys burning books as a part of his job. His outlook about burning books changes after he meets Clarisse McClellan and Professor Faber. It’s very interesting how Montag’s way of thinking transforms overtime. He becomes very courageous about hiding books and is also curious about reading them. Throughout the novel his actions, ideas, and his feelings change as he starts to think for himself.

At the onset of the novel Montag is a rule following conformist. He obeys the rules and regulations provided by his

Many times one forgets how they should think or act depending on how they are surrounded. Perhaps It's the people they are surrounded by, maybe it’s how you live your life. It could also be how you don't want to be different and tend to act like everyone, ignoring whatever else could be. The impact the society you live in and how they view what you stand by might also affect the things you do. Throughout the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, he uses symbols, figurative language and other methods of characterization to describe how Montag is unhappy, curious and determined.

Guy Montag is the protagonist and central character of the book, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury that transforms from a conformist in a totalitarian society to rebuilding a society that reads books. Montag fits the cliché description of a good-looking male with “black hair, black brows…fiery face, and…blue-steel shaved but unshaved look.” (Bradbury, 33)  For the past eight years he has burned books. He is a 3rd generation firefighter, who in the beginning of the story, loves his job, which consists of burning the homes of people who perform criminal acts of reading and keeping books in their homes. By understanding Montag’s relationships, discontentment, and future, one can begin to understand the complexities of Guy Montag.

Montag is introduced by immediately revealing his profession as a fireman who is incredibly satisfied by the work he does “he knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man… Later going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles in the dark. It never went away, that smile, it never ever went away, as long has he remembered” (Bradbury 2). The responsibility of a fireman in Fahrenheit 451 is to burn books, it is tremendously illegal to have books in the society Fahrenheit 451 takes place in. Therefore, if you’re suspected of having a book in your home, your entire house will

The first main character of Fahrenheit 451 is Guy Montag. He is a 30 year old fireman, who has black hair and smelled of kerosene, and at first wasn’t an individual or a thinker, but developed into one as the story progressed. He is a dynamic character who was very angry and confused about his life, and the life his society tells him to live. Montag is the protagonist, and he goes against the government to change the society for the better. His goal is to preserve knowledge and literature for future generations. Montag said, “‘I realized that a man was behind each one of those books’” (49). This shows that he acknowledged that books were written by real people, with their real thoughts in them; that they had details and meaning to them. This was something most people in this society did not realize.

Being a fireman and burning books felt like a nothing throughout his life, until one day he realized it made him feel corrupt as he helped burn a house where a woman was hiding her books. “You can’t ever have my books,” said the woman trapped in the house, “None of these books agree with each other… Snap out of it!” replied Captain Beatty by disagreeing with the women, as the lady refused to leave the house, the fireman had no choice but to burn her along with her books (Bradbury pg35. 8). This made a really big impact on Montag and made him think, if this lady decided to die along with her books maybe she had lived a long life free of lies and full of

Throughout the novel Fahrenheit 451, Montag changes from a barbaric fireman to an empathetic dissident. Montag constantly looks at society around him and questions why society exists like it does. Montag courageously tries to impose his will because he believes so strongly in his opinions. Many of Montag’s experiences, such as a lady burning with her books, talking with Clarisse McClellan, and seeing his wife trying to commit suicide influence his perspective on life.

In the book Montag reads out loud true friendship defined to Mildred. After, reading the definition he began thinking of an 17 year old girl, named Clarisse. How he had just met Clarisse and she had already put a new spin to his life. For Example, Clarisse would wait til Montag got off of work just to walk and talk to him. During their walks they would talk about many topics , some that left Guy thinking after she was gone. Then one day all of a sudden he stop seeing Clarisse.Guy missed her and began to feel lonely again on his walks home.

Another specific situation in when people could see Mildred as cold with any decency, emotion, and with some kind of wickedness is when she communicated to Montang that Clarisse (girl of seventeen years old) was gone. ‘’Forgot, forgot… Whole family moved out somewhere. But she’s gone for good. I think she’s dead’’ (Bradbury 44). For common sense, normal people with some kind of compassion could not announce a fatality by the same way of Mildred. The notice was delicate because a person’s life was involved, stranger for her, but Clarisse was her neighbor too. But Mildred despite her coldness and appearance of bad person that she reflected in that moment, she only was giving the information to her cold husband, she could not say anything, but

It’s a society where books are burned and people do not know each other. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag, at first a loyal follower in a seemingly utopian society, questions his country’s rules and thoughts. Although they may seem different, when a closer look is taken, the society of Fahrenheit 451 and our society may have some similarities.

“The woman’s hand twitched on the single matchstick. The fumes of kerosene bloomed about her. Montag felt the hidden book pound like a heart against his chest. ‘Go on’” (Bradbury 36-37).