Who Is Guy Montag A Dynamic Character In Fahrenheit 451

Montag's desire to acquire knowledge through books is dealt with by the rulers is that Montag’s boss, Beatty, says it was normal for a fireman to go through these phases of fascination of what books have to offer. Beatty tells Montag,” 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.” But, Beatty is missing the point on how valuable books can be. So Beatty tells Montag to read through all of the books Montag has stashed to see if the books contain anything worthwhile, then the next day turn them in to be burned.

I mean, well, once upon a time …” (34). This shows us that has been reading books before. Therefore, he would have eventually seen books as tools of knowledge, instead of bringing people to depressing lives. This also shows that Montag is asking questions regarding the history of the firemen, which tells

With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.” (Bradbury 5). Montag lived in a society where books were burned instead of read,people never admired the little things in life, they always were focused on technology or things that don’t matter. No one took the time to be curious about life and what life is truly about. This quote from the book truly shows how this dystopia was. Instead of firefighters putting out fires like they would in today’s society, they would start

On page 7 Bradbury writes “But I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in the morning.” He suddenly couldn’t remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite irritable. “And if you look”---she nodded at the sky---”there’s a man in the moon” (Bradburry 7). He hadn’t looked for a long time.” Montag has been brainwashed by the government to think that TV and electronics are everything. This makes Montag start to understand what has been forgotten in life. He is starting to understand that he doesn’t want to do what the government is making him do. Later in the novel Montag gets stuck in predicament. Page 48 notes, “You weren’t there, you didn’t see,” he said. “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a women stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing” (Bradburry 48). Montag is forced to kill the innocent women because she is in possession of the books. He is starting to have rebellious thoughts. When Montag finally starts understanding that the government is being unlawful, he acts on the situation. On page 115, Bradbury types, “You always said, don’t face a problem, burn it. Well, now I’ve done both. Goodbye, Captain. And he stumbled along the alley in the dark” (Bradburry 115). Beatty and the government have been forcing Montag to burn books, houses, even people to show power. But Montag realizes it

Knowledge is power. A power that gives the people their right to have influence in society. Imagine a world where this power was taken away. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a fireman named Guy Montag lives in a society some time in the future where a fireman’s job is to burn all books in order to prevent people from trying to revolt against the government with knowledge, and the books are replaced by mindless technology. Montag is originally one of the majority of people who is brainwashed and conforms to this society. After meeting an unusual teenager named Clarisse who introduces him to books, Montag starts to wonder what books are really like. As he begins reading literature, Montag breaks away from the others and becomes one of these non-conformists himself, speaking out against the corrupt society. Many key aspects of the society set up by Bradbury show how technology has destroyed this fictional society and causes readers to notice similarities in today’s real society.

Montag, being a fireman, didn’t extinguish fires but started them. This mostly pertains to books which are outlawed in his society. Montag never questions this, until he meets a girl named Clarisse on his way home one evening. As they start talking, he notices that she’s different than everyone else. She asks him questions that make him anxious. When they say their goodbyes she asks him if he’s happy. Unable to answer, Montag goes home and in the darkness of his home, attempts to deal with a surge of emotions. He then comes to the conclusion that his whole life up to this point was a mechanical existence. When Montag goes into his bedroom he finds his wife Mildred unconscious. He found different types of pill bottles next to her and came to the conclusion she had overdosed. Despite their marriage becoming fiction a long time ago, Montag is still worried and calls for an ambulance. Incidents in this world happen so frequently, that there’s a machine for rapid blood transfusions. Handymen who are equipped with these machines come and quickly

In the novel, Montag eventually realizes the importance of rebelling against his employer and society. Montag later recognizes the significance of books and information and knows that the society he lives in is not ideal. Montag begins to wonder if books actually do have meaning and are important to civilization itself. Montag first rebels against his employer early in the novel by stealing a book from a house that had been called in, yet when asked to turn that book in, he had planned on lying to his boss and turning in a “substitute” (Bradbury 72). This early sign of civil disobedience hints toward bigger acts of rebellion and is just the beginning of what Montag, unknowingly, has started. This simple act of rebellion leads Beatty to believe that Montag has stashed away a full library of books. As the novel progresses and Montag meets Faber, Guy Montag recognizes even more the importance of rebellion. Montag says to Faber, “Plant the books, turn in an alarm, and see the fireman’s houses burn” (Bradbury 82). This idea itself is an act of rebellion by Montag to try and

Montag was disengaged from himself and the world. During the intro of the book Bradbury exemplifies this when he writes, “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists. with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and

Montag finds out that Mildred was the one that put in the alarm when she comes running out of the front door and into a beetle taxi mumbling about how the family is ruined. After personally burning his house down with the flamethrower, Beatty announced to him that he was under arrest. While Beatty was lecturing Montag, the green bullet fell out of his ear. Knowing he had no other choice, Montag turned the flamethrower on Beatty and watcher him burn alive. Having nowhere else to go, Montag takes off with a hurt leg due to the Mechanical Hound. Stopping at Mr. Black’s house along the way to Faber’s, Montag drops off a book and calls in an alarm to watch his house go up in flames. Continuing on his way, Montag shows up at Faber’s house where he is welcomed inside only to let Faber know he can’t stay for long.

Montag was first shown as a person who loves to burn book but, after Montag saw the death of the lady and the books he realizes, “...There must be something in books, things we can’t, to make a woman stay in a burning house…”(Bradbury 48) the government is hiding what books are trying to show us and that is what he’s realizing. He now knows that the truth lies in the book and we’re getting false information, and that is what Bradbury is trying to show us. Montag also knows that firemen were different back then and not what the government is actually showing us. Before the death of the lady he tells Beatty, “Didn’t firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going”(Bradbury 31) he finds out from Clarisse the truth of firemen and not what the government is telling us when Beatty reads, “...First Firemen:Benjamin Franklin”(Bradbury 32) to show that firemen were book burners since the beginning in 1790 but. In reality it was to water down

There was no apparent conflict with Montag and his cultural upbringing in the opening of the novel. Montag lives in a futuristic society so advanced that all houses are fireproofed and housefires are not an issue. 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. Montag laughed as his 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. Without knowing what a book is or the reason anyone would value one, it 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

Sydney Mr. Soard English 16 November 2016 Guy Montag “He would not be Montag anymore…and one day he would look back upon the fool and know the fool. Even now he could feel the start of the long journey, the leave-taking, the going away from the self he had been.” In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, guy Montag is a fireman who I believe has changed throughout. Firemen in Fahrenheit 451 do not fight fires but start fires by burning books. Guy Montag goes through many optsticals during this story such as, becoming distant from everyone around him.

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.

and it confuses him because "’There must be something in books… to make a woman stay in a burning house” for “you don't stay for nothing" (Bradbury 48). The fact that someone would die for their books baffles Montag, and this urges his curiosity to want an explanation for why. His “freedom” has always been to burn the books and never to read them, but if these people were free, they should be able to think. These people should be allowed to interpret things rather than be misguided by that fact that books hold nothing

Montag is on a fire call, drowning books in kerosene, this routine is familiar, then Montag does something he knows he shouldn’t have, in fact, Beatty was just around the corner. “Montag’s hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest” (Bradbury 34). Montag Fears fire because it burns books, it burns fantasy, he also knows that fire is an obvious boundary. He knows that taking a book is frowned upon by most of society. Regardless, he took the book because he was curious and hungry for knowledge. Having knowledge would allow him to realize how important, and wonderful things really are supposed to be, he could experience happiness. He overlapped his fears and went past his boundaries and that’s what made him take the book in the first place. He becomes so intrigued in solving the concealed reality he feels that he should reveal his position to others. Upon entering his living room Montag is disgusted by the stupidity of the opinions and the viewpoints of Millie and her friends. “Montag said nothing but stood looking at the women 's faces as he had once looked at the faces of saints in a strange church he had entered when he was a child. The faces of those enameled creatures meant nothing to him, So it was now, in his own parlor, with these women twisting in their chairs under his gaze, lighting cigarettes, blowing smoke, touching