The Role Of Montag In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

The conflict in the story is that Montag’s job forces him to burn books. This wasn’t a problem for him at first, but then he met a young girl. The girl seems to live an old school life, and it makes Montag question himself and his job.

He meets his soon-to-be mentor that way, named Faber, who helps him block out any further government propaganda and assists him with remembering and understanding books. Montag changes as an individual from

First of all, Montag faces government censorship over society’s citizens, which changes him to become a courageous character, and he learns that because the government has taught people to take what they have for

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!

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel published in 1950. The novel takes place in the futuristic American society where technology dominates in people’s lives. This is an era of prosperous technological advances, but people’s life quality is bad. The people live their life without knowledge, wisdom, and self-awareness. People are not critical because all books are banned, and illegal. The people think the same thing and they look alike also. The government uses propaganda to manipulate the people. Fear is the effective method the government uses to control them.

My (TS): Throughout the book Montag’s feelings about society change when he knows something is missing, causing him to rebel against it.

As the story opens, what are the forces acting upon the protagonist, Montag, and what other forces help Montag in the recognition of his dilemma?

Clarisse McClellan is a seventeen year old girl who Montag met while walking down the street one night. She claims she is crazy and always seeks out the answers to questions that nobody else thinks to ask. Faber is an ex-professor who is old enough to have watched the decline of intellectual life in his country. Montag once met Faber in the park carrying a book of poetry on his person and quoting it. Guy never turns Faber in to the authorities for possession of a forbidden book, but keeps Faber’s personal information in the case that he decides to do so. These two people alter Montag’s perspective on the world and the stories concealed in it by the media and government. Montag is so influenced that, by the ending of the story, Montag transforms into a completely different person who, desiring more out of his life, discovers that he can save his burning society by bringing back books and poetry. Montag changes throughout the course of the story by beginning to question authority and doubt the ways of his life and society. He is transformed from the beginning to the ending, through the influence of the people in his life.

The fear Montag feels contains his future, not only because of his actions but his lack of knowledge and his lack of

To begin with, one of the events that lead to this conclusion was when Beatty kept lecturing Montag about the danger of books and asking him questions. For example, “Sir Philip Sidney said. But on the other hand: “Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.’ Alexander Pope. What do you think of that, Montag?” (Bradbury 106) He also chided Montag to burn his down house and told him he would have him arrested and it brought Montag to the point where he couldn’t take it anymore. The event that was the icing of the cake was when Beatty found Faber’s secret radio and he knocked it from Montag’s ear and said he would have it traced. “Well, so there’s more here than I thought. I saw you tilt your head, listening. First I thought you had a Seashell. But when you turned clever later, I wondered. We’ll trace this and drop in on your friend” (Bradbury 118). Overall, the point that I’m trying to get across here is that all these events basically were the reason that Montag decided to burn Beatty to

Although Montag was far outnumbered and had a lot to lose, he is justified in killing Beatty. Even though Montag really never knew if Beatty knew that he had the books, or about Faber, Montag is justified in killing Beatty with the flamethrower. Throughout the story, Beatty becomes more and more against Montag. He also tries to confuse Montag with text from books. Beatty could have found out about Faber and Montag wanted to keep him safe. Because of the way Beatty in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag meets a girl who teaches him that life isn’t as great as it seems. He learns that there are books that are not just for manuals but have stories in them. He begins to hide books inside of his own home and this leads him into some

(MIP-1)Montag used to be completely unaware of what his society was doing and was blindly following it. (SIP-A) They were being harmed intellectually and physically, but no one could even notice. (STEWE-1)The ideal members of this society, including Montag, were completely oblivious that there is a war going on around them. ”As he stood there the sky over the house screamed. There was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black linen down the seam. Montag was cut in half. He felt his chest chopped down and split apart. The jet-bombs going over, going over, going over, one two, one two, one two, six of them, nine of them, twelve of them, one and one and one and another and another and another, did all the screaming for him. He opened his own mouth and let

To begin, rebelling against oppressive rule has allowed Montag to escape their rulers brainwashing and free their minds from the corruptive manipulation put in place by ruling powers. Author of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury goes on to explain, “If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, is a read about how a small

As he walks and runs away, he thinks about what had happened to his life after he had gotten that book at the woman’s house. Then, after a few thoughts, Montag realized that Beatty wanted to die and that is why he didn’t fight. Finally, he reaches a gas station and washes himself, and that is when he heard that war had been declared. After leaving the gas station, he was almost hit by a car and that reminded him of Clarisse and how she had died from being hit by a car. Then, he goes into a fireman’s house and plants one of the books there, he calls in an alarm and they come to burn down his house. Up the street was where Faber lived, they talked about what had happened and how this event was so televised, that every house on that street was watching it all roll out. Faber tells Montag to run to a river nearby and that along some railroad lines would be some hobo camps (the hobos were actually intellectuals who were also running) and that there would be people there to help him. Later on, Faber would go to St. Louis and that was where they were going to