Icarus As A Mythical Creature Called Icarus

And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling, gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him. There was a hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a redhot stove, a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous black snail to cause a terrible liquefaction and a boiling over of yellow foam. Montag shut his eyes, shouted, shouted, and fought to get his hands at his ears to clamp and to cut away the sound. Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent’(Bradbury 113). Montag's hands pull the trigger to kill Beatty, because he was being cruel and attacking his friends and his passion, books, which also represented

Beatty is manipulative, but he is also intelligent. When Beatty visits Montag, he brings up arguments to Montag on how the education system was censored by the government, in order to keep its citizens happy and not cause any revolt. One of them being …. He brings up this argument in page hffh, quote. This further proves that Beatty is intelligent character that proposes ideas to Montag that are true and pushes Montag to think outside his point of view.

The author uses imagery to develop the characters Montag and Beatty. At first Montag was able to do his job (burning books) without giving a second thought. Throughout the story Montag grows an appreciation for books. This dramatic change is shown in the first paragraph of the passage as Montag’s burning of books is described. The

Beatty uses his knowledge to attack Montag after the fireman has made the decision to join the radicals and to oppose the burning of books. Montag returns to the fire station in order to surrender a book, creating the illusion of conforming to Beatty’s expectations. Before Montag has an opportunity to speak Beatty begins to confound him with contradictory statements from

Beatty disliked books. In the book Beatty says”Well, Montag, take my word for it, I’ve read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and books say nothing!” This proves he thinks they are worthless and meaningless. Beatty also says in the book,"What traitors books can be! You think they’re backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives."

Although Beatty decides to reject what he learned when given the opportunity to read books, Beatty is unhappy with his life as a fireman and persuades Montag to kill him by using pathos as shown through his words and actions. Firstly, Beatty orders Montag to burn Montag’s own house, creating anger and sadness within Montag. Messing with Montag’s emotions makes it a pathos appeal. This action alone does not make Montag kill Beatty, but it does push to that goal. In addition, Beatty continues to irritate Montag by insulting him, saying “It was the act of a silly, damn snob” (Bradbury 118). Even though Montag was acting like a snob, or a stuck-up individual, when he read the “Dover Beach” poem to Mildred and her friends, Beatty calling Montag

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!

Before Captain Beatty was killed, he was taunting Montag while Montag was holding a flamethrower, but did not have anything to defend himself with. Beatty knew Montag would kill him if he kept taunting Montag, so he kept on until it finally happened. Throughout the novel, Beatty seemed to be the bad guy who represented the evil side of society, but this reveals otherwise. Montag was doing what Beatty could not by defying society’s law against books. When Montag burned his own house down, that seemed to put Captain Beatty over the edge and accept the fact that Beatty was a coward who executed actions that he did not agree with. An additional important character in the novel is Professor Faber. Faber serves as a mentor to Montag in the book. He does not agree with the established rules of society, yet never personally takes action throughout the book. He describes this lifestyle in a conversation with Montag: “I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘guilty,’ but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself” (Bradbury 78). Faber looks back with regret on his earlier life when the ban on books began. He did not want to take action due to the fear that persecution would fall upon himself. Those experiences are what make Faber a good mentor to Montag; Faber has learned from them and is glad that Montag is not scared to do what Faber could not.

In the allusion, Icarus and his father Daedalus, are lost in a labyrinth trying to find a way to escape. This also represents Montag’s constant grapple and his undisclosed confinement with his society. In addition, this event marks the start of Montag’s journey of self-discovery and accomplishment of taking a stand for what he believes in. “It was a pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (3) is something Montag says at the beginning of the book and this draws light to the the firemen side of Montag, a man who purely takes pleasure in the act of destruction and who enjoys watching “flapping pigeon-winged books die” (3). The importance of this event can be recalled, because Montag changes as an individual and evolves into his current form to self-liberate. During this process, Montag also meets many characters that influence his transition such as Clarisse, the lady who burns herself, Faber as well as Mildred. All these characters urge him to break free of his captivity in his

Montag grows consistently dissatisfied with his life and work the more he talks with Clarisse. He starts to ponder if perhaps books aren’t so bad, and even snatches one from one of his book burning missions. Meanwhile Clarisse disappears, which I assumed she was dead and his boss, Captain Beatty, is growing suspicious. He lectures Montag on the potential hazards of books and explains the origin and history of their profession. Far from rejuvenated, Montag feels blazing anger and becomes more dangerously rebellious than ever. He spends one afternoon with his wife reading his secret stash of books he’s been storing behind his ventilator grill and decides he needs a teacher. He takes a Christian Bible and tries to memorize some of it on his trip.

1. Montag gives the books to beatty, while beatty tells him qoutes from the books to confuse him.

The original myth of Daedalus and Icarus was written by Ovid in his story “The Story of Daedalus and Icarus”. The story is about Daedalus, who was an architect, and Icarus, his son. They were exiled to an island that can only be escaped through the air. Daedalus made wax wings that melt if they get too close to the sun. When Icarus started flying, he flew too high and fell to his death. This story has been interpreted several different ways; these include: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, a painting by Pieter Bruegel; “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”, a poem by William Carlos Williams; and “Musee des Beaux Arts”, a poem by W. H. Auden. The texts use different elements to portray Icarus’ death, which symbolizes man’s failure.

Nature effects both the myth, Icarus and Daedalus, and the poem, Icarus, in many ways. Some examples of this are the heat of the sun, birds and the ocean. In the myth, Daedalus was watching seagulls fly around and got an idea. As said in the myth, “...watching the seagulls...

Icarus felt himself abruptly shoved into the dark hole. He lost his balance and fell on the

During the pre-assessment, the students were given the myth of Icarus and his wings. We were assessing the students’ ability to perform three important reading comprehension and literacy skills. These included identifying the main idea of a text, making connections from the text to their own personal lives and experiences, and finally, to draw inferences from the text. We collaborated with our cooperating teacher, Ms. Aviles, in order to design lessons that addressed the students’ needs and were relevant to their classroom work. We chose myths as a literary medium to coordinate with their next unit, which was Ancient Greece, and to expose them to a style of writing that many had no prior experience reading. From our pre-assessment