Montag changes in many ways throughout the novel, making him a very dynamic character. At the beginning of the novel Montag loves what he does and thinks he is happy. When he meets Clarisse she ignites the spark in Montag. “’Are you happy?’ she said. ‘Am I what?’ he cried” (10). He then begins to dwell on whether or not he is happy and then he acts upon that decision to find out why. With the prompting of Clarisse by the middle of the story Montag was beginning to learn how to think for himself. However, he makes some very good decisions and some bad. Instead of burning his problems away like he used to do, he now works through them and learns from his mistakes. He begins coming up with plans to correct society and sabotage the profession of …show more content…
The whole culture’s shot through” (87). As everything he has ever known crumbles around him, he rebels. He kills Beatty, destroys the Mechanical Hound, and plants books in a fireman’s house. Montag does these things to send a message to society saying that they are going about things the wrong way. Montag says to Beatty, “We never burned right…” (119). Montag finally learns that burning does not solve problems which was unlike what Beatty had told him. Montag now understands that he was wrong in some of the actions that he took. “I think I was blind trying to go at things my way, planting books in firemen’s houses and sending in alarms” (152). As Montag is fleeing the city he transforms from being a follower to being a leader. With all eyes on him, he is showing everyone that it is possible to be different in such a conformed society. After the city has been destroyed, he and the men he met in the woods need to get moving. “Montag began walking and after a moment found that the others had fallen in behind him, going north” (164). Montag has finally learned to be different and to be a leader. He realizes that everything he had been told was not always right. This new knowledge causes Montag to
But he never realized that he was not happy until Clarisse asked him if he was happy. Clarisse not only shows him into another reality that could exist, but that shows him the reality that had existed and what should exist. Like reading books should be legal and so should stay up late at night talking or watching TV as a family. Clarisse shows and gives Montag the ability to interpret his own world. Once Montag starts to interpret the world he lives, he begins to take little steps toward books and has a couple of sudden urges of wanting to rescue the book. He slowly starts to realize that a man is behind every book and has put hard work behind it. By destroying a book, Montag is destroying history created by another man, especially when he put so much work into the book. Montag notices that many people care for their television families instead of caring for their actual families, like Montag’s wife or even Mrs. (). Montag even notices that all the firemen look similar, like dark-hair and unshaven, mirror images of Montag. She influences Montag so much that Montag ends up becoming a human being who can think, feel, and analyze from the automan he used to
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.
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.
Throughout Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag goes through many changes and by the end of the story, he is ultimately an entirely different person. He is not responsible for all of the changes on his own however, and several characters play an essential role in shaping who he eventually becomes. At the beginning of the book, Montag encounters a teenage girls named Clarisse. Clarisse is only present for a short time, however she immediately gets Montag to think in a way he never has before. She looks at the small things in life and goes against what the current society tells her to think and do. She is different from everyone else in a very freeing way and Montag starts to be drawn into her personality. She is like a burst of fresh air for Montag
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.
Clarisse helps Montag look around him and see everything, from the smallest snowflake to the biggest tree. Montag never really thinks about what is happening in his life, or why it seems he never shows much emotion towards anything. Clarisse teaches Montag to look around and to pay attention to what is really important in life, just not what his society tells him. Even though I believe Clarisse was the reason for Montag’s major metamorphosis, I believe that there were two additional individuals that had a role to play in Montag’s expedition to find answers to fill the void in his life.
Firemen burn books, so why is Guy Montag trying to save them? Books are illegal everyone knows that, especially the firemen. Throughout the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury(1953): a fireman named Guy Montag's perspective on books changes significantly. When the veil over his eyes gets lifted he starts to question the logic on why books are banned, and soon will do anything to save them. Montag's actions change in many ways, but the things that impacted his beliefs the most are meeting and talking to Clarisse McClellan, when Mrs. Blake would not leave her books, and when he started talking to Faber.
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”- Mahatma Gandhi. Fahrenheit 451 is about a man named Guy Montag who doesn’t realize it yet but is one of the most important people in his society. Ray Bradbury wrote this book to show society the change that can and will happened if we keep going the way we are going. Montag has changed through his journey in many ways. One way is Montag has changed from not caring about his wife Millie to caring if she died during the war. Secondly Montag has changed in his journey ever since he met Clarisse, and lastly Montag has changed when he started taking books, reading them, and realizing what him and the other firemen are doing is wrong.
Montag is a character that changes from being conformed to unconformed. He used to be a fireman and even thought, “It was a pleasure to burn” (p1). Montag began the novel being conformed, like the rest of the world.. He thought the same, acted the same, and looked the same. Montag, being like everyone else, was oblivious to everything that was happening in
In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the main protagonist, Guy Montag works as a fireman. In his society, all books are illegal. The firemen burn any house with books in it. He takes pride in his job of burning illegal books. He enjoys the smell of kerosene that raises the fire’s temperature to the required 451 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature required to burn book paper. He wears the kerosene scent almost as a perfume (Bradbury 6). Guy Montag is in a ten-year, loveless marriage with his wife, Mildred.
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
¨´ . . . they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life¨ (Bradbury 60). The government desires power, to be able to control whatever the people do. That's why certain objects are taken away; rocking chairs, books, anything that promotes true socialization or thinking. Fahrenheit 451 is a book written by Ray Bradbury; it is about a dystopian society where people are constantly distracted by technology and the media. Guy Montag wishes to gain knowledge by reading books, something that is illegal and punishable by death. He´s a fireman, an occupation where all you have to do is burn books, destroying the information and ideas within them. To do this, however, he must face Beatty,
Montag had never analysed or stopped to think of what was going on with his life. As Clarisse starts to ask Montag questions and as they walk together, that makes their friendship closer. They build some sort of confidence and become
in a significant way.In the beginning of the novel Guy Montag was like everyone else in his
In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, a society has become troubled from a lack of literature due to the government. Many events in this novel give negative connotations, but the it ends on a very optimistic note. Montag, the main character, was finally able to break away from it all, and the entire repressed society is given a chance to be reborn.