Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

Near the end of the book, Montag was caught with books and was forced to burn down his own house, to continue living in fear, but something changes. “And then he was a shrieking smile 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”(113). Montag had burned Beatty, causing a chain of events to occur. He knew that he was being deceived and decided to do this to eliminate his fear. Lastly, Montag met a group of fellow rebels, stating, “‘We all made the right kind of mistakes, or we wouldn’t be here…

Although many complaints were turned in, the report that montag’s wife Millie sent was the one that caused the fire department to take action. In this passage, Beatty explains that he intends to murder Guy by burning him. He also believes that if he burns Montag he won't have to deal with the repercussions of murdering him, and it will be assumed that he burned with his books. If this conflict hadn’t happened, Montag would have stayed in the city to die when it was bombed. He also would have never been able to share the messages that he had learned from reading books as well as he would have outside the city. In closing, the central conflict in this book saved the main character's life and helped set him up to help fix

Another incident that stayed in Montag 's mind is the old women who set her self and her books on fire. However, Montag tried stopping her by telling her that the books were not worth her life. Before she burned herself, Montag took one of her books and kept it. At that time Montag did not think about what did the old lady burned herself with the books, he did not think about it might be the value and morals that books hold to teach is. The old lady knew the importance of these books and what do they have, so she preferred to burn herself with them, and not watch the firemen burn them, who do not even know the importance of books. But they do know that books are unreal and there is so importance of them, plus they are against the law!

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

In the book Montag is a fireman who burns books and makes sure there are no books in society to read or use as reference. Montag begins to realize that there are a lot of things wrong with the government and how it runs the society. Ray Bradbury has many predictions of the future which makes the reader realize that the author is quite anxious about some of those things happening in today's society. The author talks about social, government, lack of intellectual stimulation and war. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury showcases his anxiety of

James Madison once said that “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”James Madison quote relates to Fahrenheit 451 because when Montag finally had realized how good books are, he didn’t let the government tell him what to do or what he cannot learn. Knowledge is a powerful factor that empowers people

    In Fahrenheit 451, Montag believed in something everyone in the city did not believe in and he was judged and treated badly by others around him because of his own beliefs and opinions. Throughout the beginning of the book, Montag had always followed the code and conduct of the firemen by burning books because I was apparently a crime to read or have any books in the house. After he talked to a girl named Clarisse, she completing change his opinion of books and encourages him to start reading it. Mildred his wife, starts to treat him badly and starts to lose her love for him because of his views and beliefs toward books after someone helped him understand how books could give you knowledge and wisdom. When Montag got caught for reading books, he was hunted, chased by the

Montag was disengaged from himself and the world. During the intro of the book Bradbury exemplifies this when he writes, “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists. with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and

Montag is now at the point where his views are being tested and new beliefs of life are being created. “Montag had done nothing. His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief” (35). Here Montag sees a plethora of books inside of Mrs. Blake’s house and seemingly of its own accord Montag’s hand takes a book. He has now broken a rule that everyone in Montag’s society knows, never to take or read books. Mrs. Blakes, instead of coming with the firemen out of the house decides to burn with the books. This confuses Montag and piques his curiosity to figure out what inside the book could drive someone to die with

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).

This causes him to rethink his life and reevaluate what his society means to him. A similar conflict applies to Montag in Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451. He is very happy and content with his life until his eyes are opened, and he wishes to become less ignorant. The government in Fahrenheit

Montag is also being controlled, almost brainwashed by control of mass media. Captain Beatty is a mysterious and difficult to understand. He knows a lot about books and can quote many of them; he's very well read in a world where reading is forbidden. In the beginning of the book, when the fire run takes Montag, Beatty, and the other firemen to the home of the old woman who chooses to burn with her books rather than give them up, Beatty shocks Montag when he repeated and explained the quote the old woman quoted.

They throw the books down the stairs, pile them up, and pour kerosene everywhere. Not only were they willing to burn the books, but the woman as well, and the government doesn't care because they set the rules, and they think the ends justify the means. The means being burning everyone and everything, and the ends being that there are no books left, so they think it’s okay to have unjust control. Another example is on page 117, they make Montag burn his own house down and then tell him he’s under arrest. All of that just for owning some books? That’s ridiculous, cruel, and overly controlling. Page 33, another example, Montag asks Beatty “I-I've been thinking. About the fire last week. About the man whose library we fixed. What happened to him?” Beatty then says “They took him screaming off to the asylum,” this really is a good example of oppression, a man owned books, so they sent him to the mental ward of a hospital, and sometimes they send them to jail. It shows how the government has cruel treatment just because they are in control, and that’s how some things are today. At school, for a small scale example, we aren't allowed to use our phones between classes, it wouldn't hurt anything if we were allowed to, it wouldn't make it easier to cheat, or break any other rules, yet we aren't allowed to do it just because they say so, and the government, which has way more power, can, and does, do things just like this except on a much larger scale.

Montag finally decides that he has to change his ways. Beatty explains how their society functions and why, “you must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can't have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, what do we want in this country, all above.” (63). Beatty is telling montag that their society is so huge that if people start to read book they will start to ask questions and everything they’ve learned from a young age will be changed. This gets Montag thinking are book that dangerous that they could affect your whole mindset. Montag has been a fireman for ten years, and with him witnessing a death and having this conversation with Beatty it has made him certain that burning books is not right. In the novel Montag gets caught with book in his house, Beatty is telling him that nothing can happen to him “for everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibility. Except that there are. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up with you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag? When Beatty is explaining this to Montag he’s saying that having this job there are no responsibilities, or consequences, nothing can happen to a firemen. Montag has already read the books, he knows that he can't keep burning book, and Beatty is just convincing him