The Characters Of Men In Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

When you think of a character from a novel you’ve read, you probably don’t imagine that they aren’t real. However, in Fahrenheit 451, it is something to be considered. One main character from the book is Clarisse McClellan. She lived a life in which relatively few people understood her. But one day, she met Montag, a hard working fireman who burnt every book in sight for a living. They became great friends and eventually she changed how Montag saw things, inducing him to read books and eventually get into conflict with his job. Some readers believe Clarisse is an imaginary character made up in his head due to how she changed him, but they are wrong. Clarisse McClellan is real because she can do things that other real people can do and multiple people other than Montag know about her existence.

Guy Montag, on the other hand, is a fireman who starts fires, rather than stops them, in order to burn books, which are banned. Anyone caught with books are reported and their house and sometimes the people themselves are burned to the ground. People in his society don’t read books, enjoy nature, spend time by themselves, think independently, or have meaningful conversations. Guy is struggling with the meaninglessness of his life. His wife doesn’t seem to care and when he meets a seventeen year old girl named, Clarisse McClellan it opens up his eyes to the emptiness in his life. After this Montag becomes overwhelmed because of the stash of books in his house that he stole while on the job. Beatty, the fire chief, says that it’s normal for every fireman to go through a stage of wondering what books have to offer. Beatty gives Montag the night to see if the books have anything valuable in them, and to return them in the morning to be burned.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, there are many different characters and each one plays a different role. One of the main characters, Guy Montag, is a fireman who takes pride in his work and enjoys burning books as a part of his job. His outlook about burning books changes after he meets Clarisse McClellan and Professor Faber. It’s very interesting how Montag’s way of thinking transforms overtime. He becomes very courageous about hiding books and is also curious about reading them. Throughout the novel his actions, ideas, and his feelings change as he starts to think for himself.

Many times one forgets how they should think or act depending on how they are surrounded. Perhaps It's the people they are surrounded by, maybe it’s how you live your life. It could also be how you don't want to be different and tend to act like everyone, ignoring whatever else could be. The impact the society you live in and how they view what you stand by might also affect the things you do. Throughout the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, he uses symbols, figurative language and other methods of characterization to describe how Montag is unhappy, curious and determined.

In a society where firefighter’s purposely burn books, anything is possible. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a firefighter, Guy Montag, follows the rules and expectations of burning books. The job of a firefighter is to burn books because they are banned in the society Montag is a part of. Throughout the book Montag meets various characters that create curiosity and help him gain knowledge about the rules of his society. In the end, Montag is able to develop his own opinions and views about the rules he is following.

In a conversation with his wife, he said, " ‘There must be something in 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’ “(Bradbury 51). By saying this, he is showing that the old woman really got to him. The woman challenged his viewpoint of books by staying in her house because she believed the books were more valuable than her own life. After witnessing this, Montag begins to steal and read the books that he is supposed to burn, and starts to understand their purpose. The old woman’s actions challenged his viewpoint which started his character change. Ultimately, through the first part of this novel, Guy Montag is depicted as a law-abiding citizen but later starts to change when an old woman challenges his viewpoint of books.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there is a fireman named Guy Montag who has been burning books for ten years. However, once he meets a 17-year old girl named Clarisse and a professor who tells him about the value of books, he realizes that he would rather give up his job than burn books. Unfortunately, there are many individuals in Montag’s society who have differing mentalities about books. The individuals in Montag’s society are distracted by outside forces that prevent them from forming and maintaining a stable community.

It’s very clear that in this book, the main character Guy Montag struggles with Individuality. Throughout the beginning of the book, Montag enjoys his job as a firefighter and finds pleasure in burning books. The opening sentence of the book explains how, “it was a pleasure to burn [books],” (Bradbury 1). The first page also describes a symbolic meaning, that is special to Montag and the other firefighters. This symbol is the number “451,” and it’s engraved on his helmet, because it is the temperature that books burn at. This is important to know, because it leads into the book, and into one of the main themes, which is burning books. Eventually, Montag meets his new neighbor Clarisse, who is 17 years old, and dislikes the idea of burning books. One day when Montag and Clarisse were talking, she asked him, “‘Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them,’” (Bradbury 6). Montag responds with, “‘No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it,’” (Bradbury 6). This lead Clarisse to think about the real purpose of burning books, and if Montag was telling the truth. She was sure that at one point in time, people actually read books, and firefighters put out fires instead of starting them.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by author Ray Bradbury we are taken into a place of the future where books have become outlawed, technology is at its prime, life is fast, and human interaction is scarce. The novel is seen through the eyes of middle aged man Guy Montag. A firefighter, Ray Bradbury portrays the common firefighter as a personal who creates the fire rather than extinguishing them in order to accomplish the complete annihilation of books. Throughout the book we get to understand that Montag is a fire hungry man that takes pleasure in the destruction of books. It’s not until interacting with three individuals that open Montag’s eyes helping him realize the errors of his ways. Leading Montag to change his opinion about books, and

Guy Montag is the protagonist and central character of the book, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury that transforms from a conformist in a totalitarian society to rebuilding a society that reads books. Montag fits the cliché description of a good-looking male with “black hair, black brows…fiery face, and…blue-steel shaved but unshaved look.” (Bradbury, 33)  For the past eight years he has burned books. He is a 3rd generation firefighter, who in the beginning of the story, loves his job, which consists of burning the homes of people who perform criminal acts of reading and keeping books in their homes. By understanding Montag’s relationships, discontentment, and future, one can begin to understand the complexities of Guy Montag.

In a society where the government practices censorship and the people embrace conformity, Guy Montag risks everything in the pursuit of knowledge and individuality. In Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, the government imposes censorship through the outlawing of books. They enforce this law through the use of firemen, such as Montag, who are employed to destroy books and the houses in which they are found by incineration. After meeting Clarisse, a strange young woman who lives next door, whose insatiable curiosity inspires him, and witnessing the suicide of a passionate bibliophile Guy Montag decides to risk everything he has in the pursuit of

The book Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about the elimination of originality and having control over one’s life. The main character Guy Montag represents the shift from conformity to individuality throughout the book when he becomes self aware and starts to think for himself through reading books. Guy’s job as a fireman was to burn down the buildings that housed books, but was curious and started to read them. A turning point for Guy was when he was caught housing books and his house was burned down. He had three options, die in the fire, be arrested, or escape. Guy chose to escape with the books and make a stand and think for himself. Fahrenheit 451

In Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’ (1953), media has overrun the population, and television has replaced spending time with friends, family and time away from the screen. The “firemen” instead of putting out fires, they go around the town, and light people 's’ books on fire. Books aren’t relevant because they make people use their brains and think. People who sit in front of the television all day are sponges who absorb all the information they are getting, while reading causes people to create their own “version” of the story. Guy Montag, the protagonist is a firefighter, and this essay will state how Montag developed and changed throughout the book, such as finding a mind of his own, to

Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is a novel about a dystopian society in which book burning is legal so no citizens gain any knowledge in that society. Guy Montag is a fireman who never questions his decision to burn books until he cheats on his wife with a seventeen year old girl. Through his change of heart, Montag realizes that knowledge is power and book burning is a form of oppression. The following will describe his transformation by describing how Montag thinks and feels before the change of heart; what causes his change of heart; and how he thinks and feels and behaves after the change of heart.

In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The year is 2053, in a large U.S. city. The theme contains futuristic devices, with a sad and yet very confused man. Guy Montag is the star of this story. Alongside are a few more important characters such as Beatty, Mildred, Faber, and Clarisse. During this time books were completely banned.