Montag's Death In Fahrenheit 451

Montag, the protagonist of Fahrenheit 451, experienced several trials and unconditional love that represent the Hero’s Journey archetype.  One of Montag’s trials occurs when he took a sick day, as a result of his guilt for burning the old woman, and Beatty, the antagonist, comes to visit. Beatty explains the history of the firemen, while Montag tries to keep Beatty from knowing that he stole a book, “‘Wow,’ said Mildred, yanking at the pillow. ‘For God’s sake, let me be!’ cried Montag passionately.”

(Bradbury 122). Later on in the book when Montag is on the run he encounters people going over 90 miles per hour, they purposefully try to run him over, in part because of his rebellion against society and also for fun. Anyone in the community is willing to kill someone who doesn’t follow the community’s rules. Throughout part two of Fahrenheit 451 Montag shows real change from his book burning self, he begins to question if books are truly bad, something he had only dabbled in before.

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.

For instance, when Montag had the conversation about what fire was with Beatty; Beatty explained, “Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean” (57). This embodies that Beatty was trying to use his prior knowledge to tell Montag about the different aspects of fire, while also giving him a warning to not go against society’s regulations. It also leads Montag on his journey to Faber, because after he acknowledged the destructive use of fire, he decided to go against the censorship of books in society and try to save them. This proves that Beatty initiated Montag to change thoughts about their society and himself with books and fire. The most significant example of how Beatty transformed Montag was when he burned down his house, while saying, “ Now you did it. Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he’s burnt his damn wings, he wonders why” (107). When Beatty stated this, it triggered Montag to get too emotional and kill Beatty out of resentment. This act showed why Montag rebelled against the status quo of society, and why he publically acted upon it. It proves that Montag was going to go on as leader of the outsiders. Through Beatty’s influence, Montag developed from a fearful outsider into a rebellious leader in

Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, is a novel by Ray Bradbury that takes place in a futuristic world where society is brainwashed into lacking free thought. The main character, Guy Montag, is a firefighter, but because houses are fireproof and society dislikes the free thinking and creativity inspired by books, firefighters burn books as a janitorial job. One day while walking back from his job, Montag meets his new neighbor’s daughter. She talks crazy things that spark him into becoming a free thinker himself. After following society’s rules throughout his whole life, he suddenly switches and starts rebelling by threatening, endangering, and even killing others to try to prove his point to his brainwashed enemies that this way of life is wrong. After burning his path throughout the city, Montag runs away from the police finding his balanced

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

Fahrenheit 451 Essay “My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn't change. We people change.

Montag didn’t think he would cry even if his wife died, but Clarisse’s death affected him both physically and mentally. Montag develops chills and a fever, getting sick for the first time. This is exhibited in a conversation between Montag and Mildred where Mildred; “You’ve never been sick, she said. Well, I’m sick now. I’m not going to work tonight, call Beaty.” Montag also tries to talk to Mildred about the woman he burned the previous night, which the reader can gather Is something he doesn’t normally do. He even entertains the idea of quitting his job, something he said he loved at the beginning of the novel. In the first page, Montag says “It was a pleasure to burn”. This shows just how much Clarisse had changed Montag. Clarisse affected Montag greatly in the few days that she knew him, but her death is what truly impacted him, causing him to make a

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

Unquestionably, all novels can convey multiple meanings depending on a variety of factors with the most important being the manner in which the audience interprets the author’s words. More importantly, to professionally draw conclusions concerning the message the author demonstrates throughout a text, it is essential to discuss and apply the five literary elements of literature to the text. In greater detail, when a work itself is criticized or evaluated, usually one literary element is focused on to prove an argument pertaining to a novel. To bring the topic into focus, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 possesses many points that could be argued in contradictory ways based upon factual

In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag’s view on life reverses. Two characters the influence the main character Guy Montag are the old lady whose house and books were burnt down and Mildred. The old lady was caught preserving books in her home. Firemen including Montag were ordered to burn the books. The old lady refused to leave her books, so she too was burned. She bravely gave an allusion as her last words, “Play the man,’ she said, ‘Master Ridley.’ Something, something, something” (F451 37). Beatty the fire chief who ordered to burn the books replied, ”We shall this day light such a candle, by God`s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out” (F451 37). Montag gave this incident a lot of thought. The more thought he gave it; the more he questioned why the old lady loved those books so much she would die for them. Montag, like most of his society has never read an illegal book, so he is unable to relate to the old woman. But, he feels the urge to find out why these books are so sacred. After reading he begins to realize society is a twisted lie do to the controlling government. Montag’s wife influenced him to stop and question their way of living. Mildred’s common life style shows unhappiness to Montag. In her corrupted mind her family is the television, not Montag. Montag sees this depression and emptiness in Mildred and begins to question the way society has made her. After Mildred attempts suicide Montag tries to prevent him from

Mildred surrenders Montag to authorities because she does not love him. Mildred has gone through her life finding comfort in tv’s and podcast instead of family and herself. She does not know what true love is because she does not know how to love. In the beginning of the book

Montag's attempts to rectify the damage his distorted society has cast upon humanity parallels with the prisoner’s return to the cave, where his newfound beliefs are rejected out of fear. Despite Montag's intentions, the public only attacks him, berates him and labels him a criminal for acting out and rebelling against the society’s wishes. Montag’s attempts to “sear all their faces and wake them up” only result in failure (Bradbury 128), as after all, the public is too afraid. Any threat to the fragile peace the society holds is automatically fought against. The members themselves protect the status quo by isolating outsiders who think differently, as Clarisse explains to Montag, “The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten

Towards the end of the passage, Montag threatens Beatty with a fire hose, prompting a lengthy dialogue from Beatty. Beatty responds to Montag’s threats with an allusion to Shakespeare, saying, “‘There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am arm’d so strong in honesty that they pass by me as an idle wind, which I respect not!’ How’s that?” Beatty’s ease and familiarity with Shakespeare confirm that Beatty has definitely read books, and that he is an intelligent man has some notion of what books have held deep within their pages. In this way, Beatty is similar to Montag, he is another book burner that is knowledgeable about literature. What separates the two is that Beatty is simply unable to diverge from societal norms, and his stubbornness takes over and refuses to admit the worth of books. This differs greatly from Montag, who is finally starting to rebel against society. In this same scene, Beatty also taunts Montag when the fire hose is pointed at him, urging Montag to, “Go ahead now, you second-hand litterateur, pull the trigger.” While this may have just been Beatty egging Montag on, later on Beatty’s lack of resistance seems to suggest that Beatty really didn’t care whether or not he died. Moments before his death, Beatty simply says, “‘Hand it over, Guy,” and then proceeds to smile as he knows he is about to be burnt. Through dialogue, Bradbury is able to reveal information about Beatty’s background and knowledge of books, as well as his

Now on both of their behalves they really did not have the same view into the dystopian society. Montag believed it was wrong to burn books, and Mildred did not care about nothing including Montag and them books. “It is easy to read the women in Fahrenheit 451 as stock, one-dimensional characters, set up only to illustrate the opposite poles between which Montag struggles.” Montag does not realize he struggles to see the differences in him and women. “Although Montag has not yet recognized the problem with this reduction of happiness to a step below hedonism, a kind of vicarious hedonism, in which even sensation is often artificially provided, Beatty seems aware of it." Beatty realizes something different before Montag has the chance to. “Before Montag can begin to recognize his connection to others and to his inhuman society, however, he needs to reconnect with himself, reestablish his relationship with the world.”