Guy Montag as a Hero

In the beginning of the section Montag is instructed by his boss to burn down his own house. He does but also throws a flamethrower at his boss and knocks his coworkers unconscious. Montag listens to Faber in the earpiece and heads to Fabers house and eventually the whole city is after him. Faber tells him to go to the countryside to find the book-lovers that live there, so he floats in a river downstream to get there and away from the manhunt. Montag makes it to the land of the book-lovers and finds the leader named Granger. The book lovers have memorized books so that when society is prepared to accept books again, they have them. While learning about the book-lovers, bombers fly overhead and attack the city with nuclear weapons destroying everything, but Montag and the group survive. Eventually the group returns to the city to help rebuild. This is showing collaboration because not only are they rebuilding the city, but they’re working together to get society back so that books can be accepted once again. All in all, throughout all three sections of Fahrenheit 451, the main character Guy Montag shows perseverance, engagement, and

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.

Being a fireman, Montag is often times seen surrounded by light; this profession also creates a dueling identity- a man that sees the truth and the façade he must create to disguise him when he is working. Subsequently, Montag is shown continually putting himself at risk to practice what he believes, as he knows that being found out would mean his death. The English professor Faber recognizes Montag as a beacon of hope, he guides Montag and acts a mentor much like God to Jesus. The fire captain Beatty, a well-read and charismatic man, tries to tempt Montag away from books and forces him to question his beliefs. “Hold steady. Don’t let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world. We depend on you. I don’t think you realize how important you are, we are, to our happy world as it stands now” (Bradbury 59), the speech Beatty gave almost caused Montag to lose hope, this acts as evidence of his persuasive abilities and supports him being a Devil-like

Montag is a fireman rebel. He does not conform with society in Fahrenheit 451. The media/government has brain washed the people into believing that books are bad. Clarisse McClellan confirmed that Guy Montag was different

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

In Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” Montag starts off as seemingly normal as he goes about his job, home life and inner conscious. As elements are introduced, it is clear that psychologically he has been trained to think a certain way and live his life as if it were written, or programmed. Ray Bradbury creates this world that seems to promote “sameness” in Montag’s society, and clearly discourages any deviation of one’s job or role in society. In the course of the story, Montag ‘sinner peace is interrupted when he encounters a woman named Clarisse on his way home from work. From this moment, Montag is intrigued, and his inner psychological consciousness is impacted in a way that will change the way he sees his role in society, personal, professional, and even love life. His relationship with himself, his wife Mildred, his boss Beatty, and his coworkers, and finally the most impactful Clarisse. This affects Montag, and help him see his dystopian society for what it truly is, and how he’s been serving it.

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.

For instance, Montag does stop one of the big, evil characters. However, afterwards he runs away and leaves his mess instead of confronting it and disappears into the woods. Similarly, he also lacks the big realization or transformation in the end. Although he does make a transition in the middle of the story, he is missing the big ‘aha’ moment that makes him a changed man. He even attempts to go through this change as he floats down the river when the author writes “he knew why he must never burn again in his life.” (Bradbury 134). Ultimately, however, he ends up joining Granger and the other traveling scholars who read books, retain their information, and then burn

Fahrenheit 451 is a book that surrounds a fireman named Guy Montag and his revelations of the world he lives in. He becomes aware of the horrible things that occur around him and begins to notice them more. As a fireman; which is a person that burns books in their world; Montag is faced with several choices to make. Finally, he decides to take action as he reaches out to a man called Professor Faber and they develop a plan to curve the course their world is taking. However, throughout the book, several surprising dilemmas occur with other characters of the book like Mildred Montag (Guy Montag’s depressed wife) and Captain Beatty (chief of the fire department) that help steer Montag into the choices he makes.

Montag, as the main protagonist of Fahrenheit 451, is a highly dynamic character.His new found want to learn, understand the world and fix the issues, he himself was blind to for years, makes him a relatable characterization for human curiosity. His society views “free thought” as a menace to the collective good despite seeing the signs that the entire system is failing. Mass suicides, endorphine powered joy rides, and murder have replaced human thought and compassion. His ability to break against the grain gifts him with both disadvantages and advantages as he faces new obstacles throughout the novel.

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.

To begin, rebelling against oppressive rule has allowed Montag to escape their rulers brainwashing and free their minds from the corruptive manipulation put in place by ruling powers. Author of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury goes on to explain, “If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.

But don’t worry, there is a hero to this story, and his name is Guy Montag. He wasn’t always a hero, but what matters is he changed. And when he changed the whole world changed forever.