Internal Conflict In Fahrenheit 451

Montag would still realize that the firemen that are burning books are bad, while those who preserve books are good. If Clarisse had not been in the book, Montag would change his views on books and would start to read and hide them from the other firemen. This is due to how Montag was asking the other firemen a question, “Was it always like this? …

The most pivotal conflict to the plot of Fahrenheit 451 was the book burning which the main character, Guy Montag, realized he was against after his discovered interest in books. One of Montag’s first cognisance of his opposition to the other firemen was when the unidentified woman was burnt with her books in a fire that she lit. “He was too late. Montag gasped. The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them all and struck the kitchen match against the railing. People ran out of houses all down the street.” (Bradbury 40). Obviously, Montag was was bothered by the death of this woman because the next day he refused to go to work, even claiming, “the odor of kerosene made him vomit.” (Bradbury 49) This shows the internal conflict

“There must be something in books, something we can imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”(Pg. 51) Main character Guy Montag is a servant to a society that is controlled by censorship and the fear of knowledge; Montag has spent his life burning books, to prevent the spread knowledge. But a series of events cause Montag's mind to change, and result in him breaking free from his society. The internal struggle of dynamic character Guy Montag, as to whether he should go on believing the lies his society has told him, or risk his life for something as simple as words on a page, brings readers into the corrupt society of Fahrenheit 451. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 author Ray

Literature creates conflicts in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. A conflict is a written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit. The first point is censorship. In this book owning and reading books is illegal. The second point is that of ignorance and knowledge. The people in the story do not like to be sad or anything at all. The next conflict is the matter of life and death. Throughout the novel, there are mentions of life and death cause bad things in the world. In all these, literature is the cause of conflicts between the characters.

Montag soon begins to enter the bonfire stage. Clarisse, is an observant, curious, open-minded and unique 17 year old girl. Montag, after meeting a couple times with Clarisse, is when his eyes truly open that his society is full of fake realities. He becomes observant and starts asking questions about his society. While being with Clarisse, Montag would smell the leaves and notice the small details; therefore, he was having a shift from being a prisoner to going up to the bonfire. On page #48 it says, “ You’re not sick,” said Mildred. Montag fell back in bed. He reached under the pillow. The hidden book was still there. “Mildred, how would it be if, well, maybe I quit my job awhile?” “You want to give up everything? After all these years of working, because, one night, some woman and her books-” “You should have seen her, Millie!”…. “You weren’t there, you didn’t see ,” he said. “ There must be something in the books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” This is the event that changed Montags viewpoint on books

Montag is brainwashed up until the point where he meets Clarisse and then his new curiosity blossoms. Clarisse sparks a new flame in Montag and it makes him question everything he has been doing throughout his life as a fireman.

When Montag met Clarisse, he had a different look on life. Before he met her, he did not realize all that was going on in the world and after he begins to question his happiness.

Before meeting Clarisse, Montag was a strong adherent of the societal function of book burning. He was rather oblivious to the ignorant and critically dull society he lived in. His meeting with Clarisse was the beginning of his Metamorphosis into a critically aware and enlightened individual, one who could see the errors of society in forming a bubble around them. This “bubble” forming that Clarisse leads Montag away from is a serious issue, and even affects our real modern day world.

No apparent conflict with Montag and his cultural upbringing was introduced in the opening of the novel. Montag lives in a futuristic society so advanced that all houses are fireproof and house fires are not an issue. Montag laughed as his inquisitive neighbor, Clarisse, began telling him that she once heard that a long time ago "they needed fireman to stop the flames" (6). The reader knows it to be true that firefighters did, in fact, stop fires. Along the line of advancement in society, firefighters were in need of a new purpose, so they were given what was seen as one of the highest honors. They were to protect their society from nihilism and free-thinking; to burn all books, manuscripts and written information. Not knowing what a book is or the reason anyone would value one, gave the protagonist the illusion that he was only doing what was best for his society. In chapter 1 Bradbury announces that "It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed"(1). Towards the beginning of the novel Montag favored his job as a firefighter above all else; he loved to burn things. Books and their

When Montag meets Clarisse, it begins his change and desire to understand. With her curious and questioning nature, it inspires Montag to do the same. Montag had never met anyone who had questioned why something works instead of how it works. Clarisse is the opposite of Mildred. She is open-minded and observant of her world while Millie is closed off, almost an empty shell of a human. Captain Beatty, the head of the fire department, is a character that is full of contradictions. He is a fireman, who burns literature, although he has a great knowledge of it. He seems to, at one point, cared very deeply about the books he now burns without discretion. He uses the books that he calls treacherous weapons and traitors against Montag in his own argument. Beatty’s foil is the Professor Faber, who wages war with the Captain for possession of Montag’s mind and actions, which Faber inevitably wins in a flame of glory, quite literally when Montag lights Captain Beatty on fire, murdering him.

The exposition of this book is very spread out. We find out that Montag is a fireman(and what that entails), his name, and we meet Clarisse in the first four pages. Then, on page five, Clarisse introduces the idea of Montag reading the books(which of course is illegal) and asks the question “are you happy”(Bradbury, 7). This introduces the main conflict of the story. However, the more important main characters like Mildred and Beatty aren’t introduced until page nine and page twenty-five. Lastly, the setting isn’t really plainly introduced in the book or given a name. It’s just a city in the twenty-fourth century that is very close to the war that is happening throughout the book.

This change is dangerous for Montag, because being a fireman got him closer to books. Books were illegal, possessing them, reading them, even remembering them made other people think they were crazy. The closer he got to books, the more curious he became of them. Two things pushed him over the edge, deaths, the death of Clarisse and a random old woman who burned in her home with her books. This strengthened his curiosity and he started to steal books from the houses he burned.

Montag Conflicts Some people start off being very uneducated then gain knowledge as they go. In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is very ignorant and has no clue how he is really living his life. He goes day by day, living the same life until some interesting disputes come alone.

Clarisse, the young women, impacts Montag’s life and changes his perspective on the world. When Montag first met Clarisse, he noticed she did not behave like the other citizens. Clarisse does not obsess over technology. Instead, Clarisse liked to enjoy the outside world and pay attention to it. As Montag and Clarisse interact and become friends, Clarisse says something to Montag that shocks him. For the first time Montag contemplates his life and job. While in this state of shock, Clarisse tells Montag that she finds him unique because he does not ignore her. Instead he listens and comprehends what she says, "...You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow."(23-24). After Clarisse says this, Montag decides to do something Clarisse suggested. He stopped to feel the rain drip on his tongue, something he has never done before. Clarisse impacted Montag's life in a way that made him realize and appreciate the world around him. Until Montag met Clarisse, he never thought of the world as something to take care of and appreciate. Clarisse shaped Montag into the person he became. Other

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” -Albert Camus. If something is not the way that it should naturally be them it is acceptable to rebel. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray bradbury it emphasises that it is ok to rebel when something that is harming other is being enforced by the government. The main character Montag shows this through his actions. In Fahrenheit 451 Montag has a job as a fireman and he has to burn people's illegal books. Throughout the story he starts to come to a realisation that burning people's houses down just to get rid of books is wrong. It is acceptable to rebel because there is no harm in having knowledge at your fingertips, it is not right to start something dangerous, and it is not right to cause harm to people just because they are intelligent.