The books being burnt are described as flapping pigeon-winged birds that smolder in the python's mouth. The python's mouth represents flame being used to destroy various books.
Montag’s job position is a fireman, and rather than putting fires out Montag starts fires. He enjoys his job and sees it as a privilege.
Bradbury describes the girl as having dark eyes and a milky white complexion. The girl’s name is Clarisse McClellan, she enjoys walking around observing nature and watching the sunrise.
Guy Montag wears a uniform with a salamander patch on the arm and a Phoenix disc on his chest. The salamander represents the descendant of a dragon that breathes fire. The salamander and fireman both destroy things with fire and represent destruction.
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Montag and Mildred have a unique relationship without any true emotion or intimacy. They sleep in separate beds and have nothing in common. They also lack passion and desire which makes them seem more like roommates than anything else.
Montag kicked over a bottle of sleeping pills, which had been filled earlier that day. Mildred took the entire bottle and then passed out. She was then rushed to the hospital and hooked up to two machines which worked together to help her. The first machine transfused all of her blood with that of a donor, while the other pumped her stomach. Mildred has no recollection of the event.
Two handymen used machines to help Mildred. Montag did not know the men that took away her blood and violated her mind. He was upset because the men working on his wife were not medical doctors and seemed unphased by his wife’s condition.
In the parlour, three televisions hang on walls. Mildred spends a large amount of time watching shows there. Even though she already has three tv's, Mildred is insisting that Montag should install the fourth wall. The fourth wall would cost about one-third of Montag’s pay for the
His personality is different from other firefighters. He isn’t intimidating and doesn’t necessarily think that burning books is good. I do like Montag, but I’m waiting for him to make up his mind about whose side he’s on.
Guy Montag’s job consists of being a firefighter, but not the type that puts out fires instead he is the one who begins them to burn any literary works found in people’s homes. “He stood in the hall of his house, putting on his badge with the orange salamander burning across it.” This quote goes back
Lastly Mildred is unfeeling. She doesn’t show much feeling when her husband is sick. She didn’t show any feelings when she told Montag that Clarisse was died. “No. The same girl. McClellan. McClellan. Run over by a car. Four days ago. I’m not sure. But i think she’s dead.”
Montag’s Wife, Mildred, is a negative influence on him, trying to push him away emotionally and physically. She does not know who she really is and lives in an illusionary world with her obsession of television shows and believing they are real. He is so confused because she tries to ignore it ever happened thinking about all the bad things; “fire, sleeping tablets, men disposable tissue, coattails, blow, wad, flush...Rain. The storm. The uncle laughing...The whole world pouring down..." (19). After this incident he looks at Mildred in a different light and is someone who he can’t relate to. Another way she separates herself from Montag is through her "family", which is a television show. Montag constantly asks Millie “[if that] family loves [her]… love [her] with all their heart and soul" (83). Her world isn’t based in reality; they are clearly on different paths. Hers is one of illusion and his is becoming that of a totally self-aware person. She blocks everything and everyone out that is around her and lives within the show. Mildred opens Montag 's eyes to the real world and shows him that most people are uncaring and narcissistic.
Comment: This made Montag realize how separated Mildred is from the outside world. She is so caught up in her shows all day, everyday, that she has no idea what is really happening in reality.
It was revealed that Mildred and her friends are the people that reported Montag to the firemen. Earlier, Montag offended Mildred’s friends by reading a melachony poem that caused emotion. Mildred did not stay loyal to her husband and instead reports him to the government, abiding to society. The main rift in their relationship was that they are on opposite sides of society, Mildred is very devoted while Montag challenges the society standards. Deep down, she knows that if she is instead devoted to her husband then her life would go down the drain. She would lose everything including her ‘family’ and therefore has no hestiation in turning against
There is a difference between Mildred and Clarisse when they interact with Montag. When Montag and his wife have a conversation, it usually ends with Mildred being disinterested with what he is saying. It even makes Montag think “Well, wasn’t there a wall between him and Mildred, when you came down to it? Literally not just one wall but, so far three! And expensive, too! And the uncles, the aunts, the cousins, the nieces, the nephews…” (44). There seems to be no real connection between Montag and Mildred because she is busy watching the parlor walls. Whenever he tries to make an effort to talk to her, she seems to want to end the conversation as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, Clarisse and Montag’s conversation flows and continues. Ever since they met, the talks that they have had with each other always keeps them both intrigued. When Montag and Clarisse were discussing what he does for a living she could sense that something was wrong and just before
Montag sees Mildred walk out of the house, get into a cab and leave. Beatty then tells
In our world, firemen fight fires. In “Fahrenheit 451, “the firemen burns books. They do this to fight ideas and to keep their society safe from disruptive influences.
“Well, wasn’t there a wall between him and Mildred, when you came down to it?” (Pg. 44) This quote indicates that Montag has a poor relationship with Mildred. Mildred is unfaithful to Montag and gives him a lack of attention. Because of this lack of attention, Montag would show no emotion or cry if his wife passed away. Also, when Montag was conversing with Mildred about Clarisse’s death, Mildred had knowledge of it. Clarisse was hit by a car, but Mildred forgot her death and only told Montag when she remembered it. This emphasizes that Mildred was absorbed in her TV shows and was only thinking about herself and what was occurring in her fantasy
From all outward appearances, Guy Montag is content in his job as a fireman in the 24th century town in which he lives. He has learned to accept that his society is dictatorial, expressly forbidding its citizens from reading or possessing books or seeking any other intellectual self-improvement. Montag has even learned to take pleasure in the flames that shoot from his igniter when he is called to burn the dwelling of the citizens that possess books or commit other crimes against the society. He is successful in distancing himself from the fact that his purpose in life is to destroy other peoples' property.
When he started to think for himself Montag realized him and Mildred were not connected like husband and wife should be. Therefore, when Montag imagined Mildred’s death he suddenly started crying “not at death but at the thought of not crying at death…” (Bradbury 44). From this point on Montag could not be happy with Mildred even if he tried, just like Equality 7-2521 could not be happy without his tunnel and
“The parlor was dead and Mildred kept peering in at it with a blank expression as Montag paced the floor and came back and squatted down and read a page as many as ten times, aloud.” Only reason she was paying him attention was because the parlor walls were dead. “I’m not angry,” Montag said, surprised- Mildred shrieked with laughter in the hall.”
when he got home Montag finds his wife lying unconscious with a bottle of sleeping tablets by her side, Mildred tried an overdose again. Montag called the emergency and told them that his wife had tried to commit suicide when the emergency got in his house they had this two machines, "one of them slid down into her stomach like a black cobra down an echoing well looking for all the old water and the old time gathered there." and the other one is "to pump all of the blood from her body and replace with fresh blood and serum." (page 15) The next day he find out that Mildred is well, and don’t remember anything from the previous night, montag ask Mindred why would she do such a thing as committing suicide and she told him that she'll never do
Montag was a fireman who did not put out fires, but instead, him and his team created