Fahrenheit

Thesis Statement: As the protagonist, Montag undergoes many changes throughout the book due to several characters that function as catalysts in his life.

Fahrenheit 451 consists of multiple diverse characters, including a significant man named Guy Montag. Montag plays the main character strongly and effectively and has an immense impact on the story, and has one of the most vital parts of the story. Through Montag's actions, ideas, and feelings, he forms into a new person and changes throughout the story from fitting into what seems to be a utopian society in the beginning, but then later fitting into a dystopian society in reality.

Overall, we realize that even though Montag started out as one of those stupid firefighters burning books, he fought his ignorance and realized that books really are something everyone needs to enhance their knowledge and lead a successful career.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a complex book of metaphors and similes written from the perspective of Guy Montag, the main character,. This character changes dramatically throughout this book but all his change started with Clarisse, his new next door neighbor. On his way home from work one day he could sense someone just around the corner and it turned out to be Clarisse. They made acquaintances and soon started walking together, Clarisse was an odd one, none like he had met before. She noticed things like the grass, the moon, and the blossoms on the strawberry plants. She also inquired about the past that even Montag didn’t know the answer to. They talked for what felt like forever. When it came time to part

In class we read Fahrenheit 451. The main protagonist of the story, Guy Montag grew as a character as well as a person through his own personal qualities. In the novel Fahrenheit 415 by Ray Bradbury the oppressive society ultimately leads to freedom through curiosity, knowledge and rebellion.

People's values, views, and demeanor change as the meet new people and encounter events that impact his/her life. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, he describes events that Guy Montag, a firefighter, has come across that have impacted the way he thinks and acts within his community. Montag's view on the society he lives in has changed drastically because of the people he has come into contact with and because of the events he has experienced throughout this novel.

As mentioned before, it is seventeen year old Clarisse who first entices Montag to go on this soul-searching. Her free spirited, curious nature causes Montag to look beyond his job as a fireman, and to search for happiness and knowledge in books. Furthermore, with the help of another character, Professor Faber, Montag’s thirst for books continues to grow. Faber’s role in Montag’s development is to help him understand the hidden importance of books. He explains that it is not the actual tangible object that society needs, but the ideas that society desires from books (pg. 79). Finally, Montag’s wife, Mildred Montag, represents the mentally unstable group of citizens who have been brainwashed by the government to find simple happiness in television shows. Her unsuccessful suicide attempt in the beginning of the novel shows the frightening pain she is in. Unaware of her suicide, she seeks refuge in her soap opera television shows. As the novel progresses, Mildred’s character becomes even more puzzling when she decides to call the fire department, revealing that Montag has been stealing and reading books. Her betrayal to her husband proves her lack in compassion, as she has stronger feelings for her soap opera “tv family,” than for her own husband. Bradbury utilizes her character to relay the

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

First of all, Montag faces government censorship over society’s citizens, which changes him to become a courageous character, and he learns that because the government has taught people to take what they have for

As Montag develops as a character, Faber becomes crucial in helping him to clarify his thoughts, and in giving him direction. Faber is the guiding force of Montag's rebellion; Clarisse was the spark that lit the fire, and Faber helped to direct that fire in a more manageable and healthy direction. As Montag strives to read books, and to understand what their meaning is, he is confused, muddled and frustrated. He senses that they are important, but can't figure out how. At one point he is so frustrated while trying to read on the subway that on a whim, he drops by Faber's house, and pleads with him, “Nobody listens anymore...I just want someone to hear what I have to say...and I want you to teach me to understand what I read.” (82) Faber's voice from then on is in his ear, through the seashell, and Faber helps to tame Montag's thoughts, guide him in the right way, and interpret life as it comes at him. Overall, Faber plays the role of mentor, strengthener, clarifier, guide, friend and conscience. He is crucial to Montag's development and shows that fire represents thinking and new insight.

(STEWE-1) Montag comes to a conclusion that what he does and his own job are wrong,”Montag only said, We never burned right, and then he was a shrieking blaze”(113). This symbolizes that Montag knows they never used fire the right way, they used it to burn when it should be used for something else. Causing Montag to react by killing Beatty. (STEWE-2) While Montag is trying to escape his society. “Watch for a man running… watch for the running man… watch for a man alone on foot, … watch. Yes, he thought where am I running”(118). While running away Montag commits a crime towards the society by putting a book in a fireman’s house and calling in the alarm, just like him and Faber had set up. “And now since you’re a fireman’s wife, it’s your house and your turn, He hid the books in the kitchen and moved from the house again to the alley”(123). Montag has started to commit crimes against the state and run away. (SIP-B) Montag fully rebels against his society and escapes it. (STEWE-1) Furthermore while on the run Montag drops in on Faber to explain to him what is going on, Faber suggests to Montag to go to the river. “One of the rare few times he discovered that somewhere behind behind the seven veils of unreality, beyond the walls of parlors and beyond the tin most of the city”(135). Montag now realizes there is more to everything beyond the robotic

Ray Bradbury’s creation of character Montag in Fahrenheit 451 mirrors his own personal fears, social expectations, and importance of relations. Fahrenheit 451 is split up into 3 characteristics that the author, Ray Bradbury and the main character, Guy Montag share, bringing them to show their most common interests… their love for book. They are willing to go to the fullest extinct for their passion without letting anything get in their way and taking all risks that is needed to succeed.

Therefore, through books, Montag becomes conscious of the monotony of his previous life, and now rebels against the very foundations of his society. Due to this intellectual illumination, Montag begins to acknowledge the details of the world around him, details he had once ignored: ‘”Bet I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass this morning.”’As enlightenment dawns on Montag, he finally begins to realise the power within books (i.e. they hold the key to power through knowledge) and this is his ‘crime’ against society: ‘There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house...’ Despite his newfound interest, Montag is still struggling to understand the concept of literature. Once again however, Montag is pushed in the right direction by Professor Faber. Under Faber’s guidance, Montag recognises that ‘There is nothing magical about [books] at all. The magic is only with what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment.’ This quote exemplifies the fact that although books are the combination of mere ink and paper, it is the beliefs and the knowledge within a book that are so incredibly powerful.

The society began to wake up and realize that they were in the wrong; they were circling the drain. Montag had woken up and realized that books held the world together and theirs was falling apart. A war was inevitable and was announced during the Montag’s televised manhunt. Montag, Granger, and their band of brothers, would start the new society from ashes left by the war. Just as a phoenix would rise, so would a new and enriched society would rise from the

Guy Montag, the main character in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, goes through a huge change in his life. He changes from a typical fireman who follows the laws, into a person who challenges the law. Montag wakes up from being numbed and realizes that he is unhappy. Montag 's wife, "Mildred", who is addicted to Television and radio, did not care about Montag 's feelings. However; Clarisse and Faber played a big role in Montag 's life. Montag is a metaphor for a numbed society and his courage is demonstrated as he wakes up and evolves into his real human self throughout the book.