Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Beatty is the fire chief and everyone is feared by him. Beatty tries to stop Montag on going down the road of believing books are not a bad thing, he himself has gone down that road and does not believe it is one worth traveling. Shortly after Montag kills Beatty he realizes that he wanted to die, all this time he wanted to be a character of his own book and after he died he finally was. Beatty had wished he could forget his past life and be happy like everyone else. Captain Beatty did not feel that books provided him with enough information about life he felt as if all the pages in the book were blank. He believes that books only lead to confusion and thought, which should be avoided at all

Towards the end of the passage, Montag threatens Beatty with a fire hose, prompting a lengthy dialogue from Beatty. Beatty responds to Montag’s threats with an allusion to Shakespeare, saying, “‘There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am arm’d so strong in honesty that they pass by me as an idle wind, which I respect not!’ How’s that?” Beatty’s ease and familiarity with Shakespeare confirm that Beatty has definitely read books, and that he is an intelligent man has some notion of what books have held deep within their pages. In this way, Beatty is similar to Montag, he is another book burner that is knowledgeable about literature. What separates the two is that Beatty is simply unable to diverge from societal norms, and his stubbornness takes over and refuses to admit the worth of books. This differs greatly from Montag, who is finally starting to rebel against society. In this same scene, Beatty also taunts Montag when the fire hose is pointed at him, urging Montag to, “Go ahead now, you second-hand litterateur, pull the trigger.” While this may have just been Beatty egging Montag on, later on Beatty’s lack of resistance seems to suggest that Beatty really didn’t care whether or not he died. Moments before his death, Beatty simply says, “‘Hand it over, Guy,” and then proceeds to smile as he knows he is about to be burnt. Through dialogue, Bradbury is able to reveal information about Beatty’s background and knowledge of books, as well as his

Beatty supports this by saying since he has read some himself, he can affirm that they are worthless and contradictory. Through this experience, Montag has a new understanding of his profession. Although he is still skeptical, he knows more than he did before, and most importantly, Beatty has started to get Montag’s mind thinking. An important quote from this conversation is, “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal. . . . A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it.” This is when Beatty is ‘confiding’ in Montag, making him finally piece together what he has been doing all of these years as a fireman. He finally can begin to comprehend the society he is in, and what measures the government has taken to subdue the population. Later on in the book, Beatty and Montag face each other once more. After Montag is brought to his own house and told to burn it down, and facing no escape due to the hound, he burns it down. After burning down his own home, Beatty tells him he is under arrest, and begins to provoke him. As Beatty clearly intended, Montag kills him, turning him into a charred corpse. The fact that he died by fire, and knowingly chose to die by the flamethrower is interesting. Nevertheless, this is the point of no return for Montag, knowing that he did what he had to do, and that he was now an enemy of the state. At this point, Guy

Beatty uses his knowledge to attack Montag after the fireman has made the decision to join the radicals and to oppose the burning of books. Montag returns to the fire station in order to surrender a book, creating the illusion of conforming to Beatty’s expectations. Before Montag has an opportunity to speak Beatty begins to confound him with contradictory statements from

Although Beatty decides to reject what he learned when given the opportunity to read books, Beatty is unhappy with his life as a fireman and persuades Montag to kill him by using pathos as shown through his words and actions. Firstly, Beatty orders Montag to burn Montag’s own house, creating anger and sadness within Montag. Messing with Montag’s emotions makes it a pathos appeal. This action alone does not make Montag kill Beatty, but it does push to that goal. In addition, Beatty continues to irritate Montag by insulting him, saying “It was the act of a silly, damn snob” (Bradbury 118). Even though Montag was acting like a snob, or a stuck-up individual, when he read the “Dover Beach” poem to Mildred and her friends, Beatty calling Montag

When an author produces a work of literature, they are greatly influenced by the world around them. Inspired by life in society, authors are able to create work that speaks to their observations and views on society and its functions. In the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury incorporated the corruption of the society in which he lived in into the dystopian society created in his book. Fahrenheit 451, a fictional book about a protagonist’s attempt to overcome a dystopian society’s corruption, was written by Ray Bradbury while living in 1950’s America. The book focuses on themes of censorship, and illustrates the effects of when a society is controlled and limited. The correlation between the story and the time it was written is

“Fahrenheit 451,” written by Ray Bradbury, is a futuristic, dystopian novel based upon a society secluded by technology and ignorance. In this future society, books are outlawed and firemen are presented with the task of burning books that are found in people’s homes. Montag, a fireman, finds himself intrigued with the books, and begins to take them home and read them. As the story progresses, Montag learns the truth behind why books are outlawed and flees his city to join the last remnants of age-old scholars. To progress the story and help the reader easily understand the events, Bradbury uses certain steps to write his book. The novel “Fahrenheit 451” possesses all of the steps of narrative structure, which includes the exposition,

He knows she called about his books. Captain Beatty then tells Montag again to burn all of his books, but instead he burns all of Mildred’s things. He loves the desire of burning and destroying all of her things. Captain Beatty tells Montag that he is to be arrested afterwards. All of the firemen watch as Montag’s house burns. Captain Beatty and Montag start to argue about books and their importance again. They start a physical fight. The fight escalates to Montag pointing a flame thrower at Captain Beatty. Captain Beatty goes on to taunt Montag, so Montag decides to burn Captain Beatty

When Montag met Clarisse, he had a different look on life. Before he met her, he did not realize all that was going on in the world and after he begins to question his happiness.

Montag encountered a kind seventeen-year-old girl named Clarisse McClellan, who opened his eyes to the purposelessness of his life with her innocently clever questions and her odd love of people and nature. As Montag's dissatisfaction with his life increased, he began to search for a solution in a stash of books that he had stolen from his own fires and hidden inside an air-conditioning vent.

When Mildred left, Montag killed Beatty. Montag and Beatty got along in the beginning of the novel, but towards the end it didn’t seem that way. When Montag had the books for a while, his warning that Beatty gave him was sending a mechanical hound to his house. Books in this society are not even allowed, but because Guy Montag was a fire fighter, he was aloud to have it for 24 hours and then required to turn it. It is almost as if Beatty wants Montag to kill him. If Montag wouldn’t of killed Beatty, he would’ve been arrested. Captain Beatty continues to lecture Montag on the importance of books in this society, and returning them. Beatty wants to know why he didn’t return them in when the mechanical hound came to his house. Montag knew that he couldn’t get away from Beatty. The mechanical hound would trace his scent and come get him. As ordered to, Guy Montag burnt his house down with the flame thrower that Beatty had gave to him to do so. Once he watched his house burn, he just stood there. Although, at this time, Montag still has the flamethrower. It was silent. Beatty ordered Montag to hand over the flamethrower. “Montag shut his eyes, shouted, shouted, shouted, and fought to get his hands at his ears to clamp and to cut away the sound. Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent.” (Bradbury 121). Montag switched the flip on the flamethrower and proceeds

The tension between him and Beatty kept building and then reached a breaking point right before Montag burns down his own house and Beatty says to him “Now, Montag, you’re a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders…” (Bradbury 115). When he says this it becomes clear that Beatty is enjoying destroying Montag’s life.

In the end Captain Beatty turns Montag into a killer. After Captain Beatty makes Montag burn his house, he grabs his ear piece from Montag and threatens to trace it back. Montag does not want this, because he had received the transmitter from his friend Professor Faber. This causes Montag to aim the flame thrower at Captain Beatty. “ Go ahead now, you second hand litterateur, pull the trigger.” He took one step toward Montag” (Bradbury 119). Beatty then pushes Montag until he cannot take it anymore and Montag finally shoots hot flames,

Although Montag was far outnumbered and had a lot to lose, he is justified in killing Beatty. Even though Montag really never knew if Beatty knew that he had the books, or about Faber, Montag is justified in killing Beatty with the flamethrower. Throughout the story, Beatty becomes more and more against Montag. He also tries to confuse Montag with text from books. Beatty could have found out about Faber and Montag wanted to keep him safe. Because of the way Beatty in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag meets a girl who teaches him that life isn’t as great as it seems. He learns that there are books that are not just for manuals but have stories in them. He begins to hide books inside of his own home and this leads him into some

Earlier in the novel, Beatty seems to frighten Montag; therefore unexpected that he would go against Beatty, and eventually kills