Montag has grown to be a smarter and a more thoughtful person. He used to be like everyone else. Unaware, dumbed down, dull, and not being able to think to the best of his ability. The government likes to keep it that way. They allow for no progressive and interesting thoughts from the citizens. That all changed when Montag met Clarisse. The odd one out that made him understand what he could really be capable of and what books could be for humanity. He started going to work, noticing what was really happening. In other words, he changed for the better. As he continues to act more “strange” then the rest of his society, they start to see him as weird and confusing. Montag goes home and yells at Mildred and her friends. “Maybe the books can get
Montag at the beginning of the book is a person that you could love and hate. Montag was a person who loved his job as a firefighter. To Montag he got pleasure out of burning the books. One of Montag's favorite things from burning the books was he would put a marshmallow and put it on a stick and roast it.When Montag's done and goes home he goes to bed with a smile on his face. Then everything changes once he meets Clarisse.
Fire. Fire can mean so many different things in so many different situations. Fire has had a lot to do with the book Fahrenheit 451. Throughout the book, the meaning of that fire changes to the main character, Guy Montag. Montag’s profession is a fireman, but not the fireman you
A fire starts out as a small match, and it moves to a roaring flame. Guy Montag is also a simple match when he is introduced in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. He starts out as a casual fireman, and he is hypnotized by society. Montag’s life sees a spark of change as the story begins. Many events influence his characteristics. When he is filling a house with kerosene and the lady inside voluntarily remains inside to burn. When the house is finally ignited, Montag suddenly ponders why a person would die over books. He fights to find a clear answer and discovers that only books can restore thought to society. Montag is a changing character throughout the novel. Like a match held to a newspaper, Montag’s mind starts searing away in thought.
He was once emotionless man, a person who rarely thinks about his surroundings evolving into a agog man eager to know about the world around him. Finally, evolving into a courageous man. This man is Guy Montag from the book Fahrenheit 451. Montag is a fireman, but not one’s typical fireman, his job is to burn books. Throughout the book, the main character Montag undergoes a transformation from being disengaged, to curious, to brave. Bradbury uses this to demonstrate that everything can change.
After interacting with Clarisse, he realized that he was never “normal” or happy. She forced him to realize that the society that they lived in wasn’t right and wasn’t what he wanted. Then, he began to fight for what he thought was “the perfect society”, doing whatever he could, including hurting people. There were a lot of people who also wanted a “perfect society” where books were for reading and human life was preserved, and some wanted it as much as Montag did, but no one went to the extents he did to make it possible. The other people who were pushing for the new society wouldn’t literally kill for it, and not just because of fear, because they were more sane than Montag
And how can he keep everything that’s happening to him inside how can he not share it with people and talk to someone about it. In page 97 it says “but montag was gone and back in a moment with a book in his hand”. Montag risked bringing out the books and on top of it reading it to mildred’s friends. It frustrated him to see their views on politics and he wanted to anger them. This changed his character because it started to bother him the way not just them but many people thought about politics, they didn’t really understand it. And before he would of never even bothered to ask them
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is about a society where books aren’t allowed because the government thinks they will make the people smarter. The fireman in this society are starting the fires instead of turning them off,they burn the people in the houses because they have books. Guy Montag, a fireman, has his views changed in this society by a young girl named Clarisse. He realizes that what he is doing is wrong and he wants to change it. He runs away from the government and runs into other men who also want to change the government.
In my opinion, Montag went through a more mental than physical change. These changes in his mind mostly occurred because of the influence of individuals such as Clarisse. I think that the situation with the burning woman also influenced Montag’s change of mentality. Later in the novel after these people and situations came into play, Montag’s mind and reasoning were operating reverse of what they had in the beginning of the novel. I believe the biggest reason that Montag and his mind changed was because of Clarisse.
Montag, the main character in Fahrenheit 451 realizes that the life he lives in is not the life he desires. "I'm going to do something," said Montag. "I don't even know what yet, but I'm going to do something big" (Ray Bradbury 65). At this point Montag has decided that he is going to change his life, even if the odds are against him. Montag lives in a society where controversy is extremely frowned upon, so that is why books are not allowed to exist.
In today's society, the actions of others influence our actions more than ever, a good example of this is news networks and governments. These two examples both have a common goal, to inform people in the hopes that it might change their views, perspectives and personal growth. In the novel FAHRENHEIT 451, Ray Bradbury’s character Montag goes through a series of dramatic changes in his personal growth, perspectives and opinions. This then affected his judgment and his actions. There are three characters in this novel who have influenced Montag the most, these three characters are Mildred, Faber and Clarrise.
People’s actions and their individual perceptions can influence and develop change in another person’s character. In Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Guy Montag, makes a complete metamorphosis with the help from his neighbor Clarisse, his wife Mildred, and his boss Beatty. In the beginning of the novel, he despised the whole idea of reading, had no thoughts or questions about his life, and was just going through the motions of life. He changes from a stolid character, incognizant of the activities of his surroundings, to a conscious person of. So enlightened, by the new world he is exposed to, he comes to the realization that there is more
As Montag is making the transition into a rebel, Bradbury changes the way he describes him. Montag starts to read the books he has hidden and get upset with Millie when she talks about her “family”. Montag also begins to listen to the rain and question the wars his society is involved in, things he never would have done before.
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 the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there is a story of the character Guy Montag who is a fireman in a dystopian society, a society in which people get entertainment from giant TVs they call “Parlor Walls” and houses have been deemed fireproof. Since fireman do not need to run around and eliminate fires, they start them. The job of a fireman in this dystopian society is that they burn books and the places that contain them, all the while being the official censors of the state. But there is something different about Montag, he used to be a proud fireman, he had the look of one: “black hair, black brows... fiery face, and... blue-steel shaved but unsaved look” as it states on page 30, the feel of one: “It was
The triumph of the human spirit is a recurring motif in American culture, specifically stories. Guy Montag is the “hero”, to put it broadly, in Fahrenheit 451 and he is the character whom the audience roots for. When Montag says this quote he is speaking to his advisor and confidant, Faber, after deciding to become enlightened by books rather than less philosophically lightning them on fire and decimating them to ashes. Montag’s triumph is the success of individuals and the smaller opponent over the seemingly impenetrable superior force. By questioning the motives of those around him and becoming aware of his role in society Montag demonstrates character traits that differ from the norm in his dystopian society. Montag’s intuitiveness is observed