Hound Of The Baskervilles Character Analysis

“He might come and burn the house and the ‘family’. That’s awful! Think of our investment. Why should I read? What for?” (Bradbury 73). Mildred never cared about literature, only her ‘family’. Even after she sent in the alarm for the firemen, and ran off to the taxi, she was muttering, “Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now…” (Bradbury 114). Since Mildred never changes throughout the novel, she is static.

Wayne Dyer once said, “ If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Guy Montag learns that when he looks deep inside himself, he finds something that is unexpected. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there are some obvious differences but if you look deeper you can see some darker differences.

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury introduces Montag as a fireman who enjoys burning books. Bradbury started off with”It was a pleasure to burn” showing what Montag thinks about burning books. Montag liked the way when “books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning”(Bradbury, 2). He like to see thing blackened and changed like a destruction. Montag started to change throughout many challenges that he had to face and he also started to get a different view on fire on his adventure. At the end, Montag no longer thought it was a pleasure to burn as, books and Clarisse and Faber had changed him entirely. Montag realize that books was actually really good and there can be so much things to learn about from

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings” -Henrich Hein. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Mildred, Montag’s wife, and Clarisse McClellan are two very opposing characters. Clarisse thinks and acts “outside of the box” Where as Mildred rather stays in the box; she goes with the flow of their society. Although Clarisse McClellan and Mildred are very different, they both are very significant in Montag’s life; they have positive and negative affects on him.

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.

In a society where technology controls people’s minds, empathy is lost. Stuck to radios and television programs, one may forget who their loved ones are. In his novel “Fahrenheit 451,” author Ray Bradbury uses the thoughts and actions of his characters to develop the idea that a healthy society cannot exist without empathy. This becomes clear to readers when a marriage is questioned, and when random acts of violence are carried out on a regular basis.In the novel, the protagonist, Guy Montag a fireman, meets a curious young girl, Clarisse, whose thoughtfulness incites him to evaluate his own morals. In this future world, firemen are not in charge of putting out fires; instead, they start them. Books are outlawed, and firemen reinforce the

In the book, The Giver, Lois Lowry stated, “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.” In Guy Montag’s society, they had to give up many things to achieve sameness. The current society may not have sameness, but we do have many other things that Montag’s society does not. Throughout Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, it has become apparent of how their society contrasts from ours.

People can change a lot across the time of their life, in some instances however, people can change in just a few weeks. Guy Montag, fictional character in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, is a fireman of a dystopian future where books are illegal and are to be burned, but in this story Guy Montag is the perfect example of change. Some of the things that influenced Montag and changed with him throughout the story being; some of the people he met, his emotions for his strange wife Mildred, and his views on fire and books.

Montag's determination and fast paced speed lead to further distancing of him and the others. His pumping heart felt like the constant beat of a pounding drum against his chest. The putrid smell of sulfur filled his nose with the stench of death and decay as the city grew near. Granger slowly catches up to Montag and with his voice cracking from the dust and heat says “here we stand at the gates of hell!” At this moment Granger with his knees weak from the arduous journey sat underneath from what resembled a once teaming underpass. “I remember joking about the cars that once filled this highway. I referred to them as ants marching in some meaningless manner, yet now I don’t even see an ant on this scorched pavement. Furthermore, I see nothing Montag, not even a bird singing, or even a

Alice Sebold, the author of The Lovely Bones, paints a dark, mysterious picture at the beginning of the novel and emits a suspenseful mood. Susie Salmon, the protagonist, is a young teenager who gets tragically raped and murdered. She looks down from heaven where she is the only one who truly knows her killer. The murder of Susie Salmon becomes an interruption and disturbance to those that were linked to Susie in a way that the mystery of her murder drives them to the edge. The irony of Susie’s feelings of her “perfect world” is that she grows lonely in a place where all her wishes or desires become a reality. Even though Susie is gone and alone in heaven watching the life she used to know, she has a lasting impact on the lives of her friends and family

Fahrenheit 451, a novel written by Ray Bradbury, is set in a fictional dystopian world of the future. The main character in the novel, Guy Montag, is a respected fireman. However, in this era, firemen are government workers who start fires to burn illegal books, instead of putting fires out. Guy Montag changes slowly throughout the plot of the novel, acting based on his desire to better understand the reasons for books. In this novel, people that think and read books are treated as misfits and criminals, who are on the receiving end of punishments and mistreatments. Ray Bradbury speaks to the reader through the words and actions of Montag throughout the novel, Fahrenheit 451, to warn the reader of the corrupt and manipulated societies

The Hound of the Baskerville The legendary author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Hound of the Baskerville. The story is all about solving the mysterious mystery of the death of Sir Charles. Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Watson are trying to find out that the murderer is and how would they solve it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses Stapleton as a foil to Holmes to highlight between good vs. evil, compare each character's personality, and how their actions lead to solving the mystery. As far as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the story, Stapleton was the greedy person in which he was the murderer.

The differences between Jack and Stapleton shows us that we all have dichotomy in us all. A difference between both Jack and Stapleton is Stapleton plans what he will do, while Jack does not. Stapleton throughout the book has predicted and planned what would happen and at what times. This is shown when he kills Sir Charles, Steels Sir Henry’s boot, fools Holmes in London, etc. Jack on the other hand acts on instinct. He shows this when killing, hunting, supplying the fire

Liquid, molten, scarlet fire burst upon the the kerosene soaked books, enclosing all of them with a sucking, sizzling howl. Draining the life out of each precious page, under the twinkling twilight stars. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury takes Guy Montag through a series of conflicts with the government, in a dystopian society, where the firemen rules. Guy Montag, the protagonist of the story changes as a result of conflict with his dystopian society and this will lead to the theme of the novel, Knowledge is power.

Chillingworth suffers primarily from emotional loss because of the adultery committed by Hester and the madness that stemmed from it. Chillingworth was believed to have loved Hester and the break in trust had torn his heart in two and made him hungry for revenge. Chillingworth does specific acts in order to slowly get his revenge on Dimmesdale. Chillingworth wishes to slowly torture Dimmesdale in order to exact his revenge because he believes that he will suffer more the longer he is living with the guilt of adultery. Chillingworth uses his expertise as a physician to keep Dimmsdale living only for him to suffer more, a cruel type of vengeance. The reader able to examine Chillingworth’s descent into madness and his actual state of madness in this novel. Chillingworth demonstrates this madness by the scenes of him madly laughing, the lengths that he goes to for revenge, and his ‘admittance’ to working as a servant of the man in black. When Arthur Dimmesdale finally dies and is released from his grief, Chillingworth sees no reason to live any longer and dies a few days later. Chillingworth leeched off the life of Dimmesdale and he longer had a person to exact his revenge upon and finally