In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag risked his life by reading books, planting books, and showing his books. In that day and age, book are illegal, they are bad. If you own any, you and your house with your books will be burned. Risk is a theme in Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. Guy Montag, is a fireman. A fireman’s job is to burn books, which is ironic because the firemen are the people starting the firings, not putting them out. Although Montag is a fireman, he hides books because that is something he truly enjoys, even though he is risking his life and his wife's life. In his house, he hides books behind the air conditioning vent, deep inside the wall. Montag has hidden these books from everyone, even his wife, Mildred Montag. “Then he reached …show more content…
Now he is showing the books to Mildred and her friends who are not pleased with their lives. “Then he began to read in a low, stumbling voice that grew firmer as he progressed from line to line, and his voice went out across the desert into whiteness, and around the three sitting women there in the great hot emptiness” (page 99). Since Montag has now exposed his books, and is now reading his books to Mildred, and her friends, he could be in serious danger. They could call an alarm on him, or they could be so pleased that they were able to hear literature for the first time. Mrs. Phelps, has no children and has many divorces. Her third husband, has just been sent off to war, and she acts oblivious about it. When she hears the poem, she just lets her emotion out. Mrs. Bowles, had a very different reaction. She was furious at Montag, she found ways to connect poetry with all sorts of bad things. “I’ve always said poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness, and all that mush” (page 101). Mrs. Bowles, has two children that don’t like her. She sends them to school as much as she can, and puts them in the parlor for any other times she has to be with them. She also has three husbands, one being divorced, one being killed in a car accident, and one committed suicide. Their reactions makes Montag nervous, because they could call an alarm on him, and then his
His personality is different from other firefighters. He isn’t intimidating and doesn’t necessarily think that burning books is good. I do like Montag, but I’m waiting for him to make up his mind about whose side he’s on.
Clarisse tells Montag this, and it makes him wonder if anyone really does care. Montag realizes that he lives in a world of conceited people. He realizes that he does not really care about anyone, including his wife Mildred. People in his society don't think about others feelings when acting. From this, Montag learns the meaning of caring. He learns what a terrible place it is to live in, where no one cares about anyone but themselves. This only changes Montag for the better. At one point, Montag and the other firemen go to a house because a lady has books concealed in her home. The lady, not concerned about being burned to death, is determined to stay with her books. Montag is stunned by her decision, and cares very much about her safety. “Montag placed his hand on the woman's elbow. 'You can come with me'” (Bradbury 39) This is a turning point for Montag, in which he starts to care about everyone and their feelings.
In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Guy and Mildred Montag are a married couple who have a very distorted and ever-changing relationship. At the beginning of the book, the reader can tell right away that the Montags are very distant from each other and don’t have a strong bond. Mildred seems to live in her own world by essentially tuning Mr. Montag out completely. She is never without her TV family and the “thimble-wasps in her tamped-shut ears” (Bradbury 11). Guy Montag on the other hand is quite the opposite. Although we don’t get to see very much of him before he meets Clarisse, a very defining young girl in the story, the reader can only assume how Montag behaves with such seriousness and investment into his work. In a way, Montag too tunes Mildred
Immediately Faber replies with “It’s not books you need its some of the things that once were in books” (78). From there Montag begins to understand the magic within books and its effects on people. Montag finally understanding books for what they are uses this knowledge in an attempt to bring Mildred’s friends to the realization of their errors. What Montag did was read a poem to his wife’s friends one night while playing it off as a joke, Montag knowing the meaning of the poem and what effects it could have on an unstable housewife. Montag successfully brought them to reality at least for a time making one of them rethink about their past decisions to the point of tears. Although Faber was totally against this act he was the one who could be held accountable for changing Montag’s view on books because now he understands what books mean and how to use them to his advantage.
The book Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is about a man named Guy Montag who breaks away from societal norms after realizing how ugly they are. He begins as a fireman who’s job is to burns books and destroys the houses they’re kept in. After meeting a girl named Clarisse McClellan, a person who opens his eyes to different ways society can be, Montag starts to see the way people are being brainwashed in they’re community . Montag tries to show a different way life could be to his friends but they refuse to change. The growth of Montag is shown through the book as he breaks away from society and thinks for himself.
Montag once liked his job and then he meets Clarisse and begins to question is career choice as well as his personal life because he does not feel complete or happy. Montag wants to change his life and tries to open up to Mildred about his feelings but Mildred is so caught up with her “T.V. Family” that she does not have time to discuss anything with Montag.
In the first part of Fahrenheit 451, the character Guy Montag, a thirty-year-old fireman in the twenty-fourth century. In this dystopian (dreadful and oppressive) setting, people race "jet cars" down the roads as a way of terminating stress, "parlor walls" are giant screens in every home used dually for entertainment. Governmental propaganda and houses have been fireproofed, thus making the job of firefighters, as they are commonly known, obsolete. However, firefighters have given a new occupation; they are burners of books and the official censors of the state. As a fireman, Guy Montag is responsible for destroying not only the books he finds but also the homes in which he finds them. Books are not to read; they are to die without question.
The book fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about Montag, a 30 year old firemen who is someone who burns books for a living. He has always done what he’s told, he became a fireman because his father was one and his father before him was a firemen. Montag never questioned if he was truly happy with the profession that he was essentially given at birth, marrying his robotic like wife, and always going with the social norm. That burning books was good and knowledge was unnecessary in their society. Montag meets a life altering acquaintance, a 17 year old girl named Clarisse, she changes Montag’s viewpoints on life, causing him to rethink everything. Although, Montag has never questioned anything in his life, he learns he may not be as happy as
Fahrenheit 451 shows Montag is confused and struggles with self-doubt. “Montag, you idiot, you damned fool; why did you really do it?'" (p.120) Montag is questioning his actions; this shows he is still working through confusion. He is never had an issue with his job or life until he meets Clarisse, who confuses him with her questions The author shows a clear change in Montag. He begins to rethink everything, his wife Mildred, his job, and the thought of books; he is confused. Freud’s theory of personality as well as the theory of the conscious and unconscious can be applied. Guy often does things he himself is not clearly aware of or has no control of some of the things he does, which may be because he is so confused with himself. In addition, he has the feeling that his hands are out of his control. “Montag had done nothing. His hands had done it all, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief”.
Question: How Montag develops as the novel progresses Fahrenheit 451 is a science-fiction book by Ray Bradbury. The protagonist is Guy Montag, a person who lives in a world where books are burned and censorship is an issue in society. The world that Montag lives in is governed in a manner that forcefully influences people's views along communist lines. At the start of the novel Montag was blindly conformist and bought into the government's agenda. As the story progresses, Montag starts to question the problematic society he lives in.
In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is the main character. Ray Bradbury, author of the book,
In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Clarisse’s intellect and insight forces Montage to confront his loneliness, despair and the dehumanizing traits of his dystopian society, demonstrating that self-reflection of core beliefs is necessary when searching for happiness. Montag starts out as a heartless man who would rather live a superficial life than thinking about the very prominent issues in his society. When he meets Clarisse she presents him with a new way of perceiving the world around him, that makes him question the motives of his previous actions and his censored society’s. Montag finds himself rebelling against the laws he once enforced, with the people he once alienated. Clarisse’s wisdom, which is the match that lights up
What if you were stripped of your knowledge and left with technology to teach you how to think and feel? What if you weren’t allowed to own a single book, as you were in fear of everything you loved being burnt? Fahrenheit 451 is that story. It’s the story where a man who goes by the name of Guy Montag, spends his life as society tells him to. He destroys books, and the stories of those who own those books.
Fahrenheit 451, a novel written by Ray Bradbury, is set in a fictional dystopian world of the future. The main character in the novel, Guy Montag, is a respected fireman. However, in this era, firemen are government workers who start fires to burn illegal books, instead of putting fires out. Guy Montag changes slowly throughout the plot of the novel, acting based on his desire to better understand the reasons for books. In this novel, people that think and read books are treated as misfits and criminals, who are on the receiving end of punishments and mistreatments. Ray Bradbury speaks to the reader through the words and actions of Montag throughout the novel, Fahrenheit 451, to warn the reader of the corrupt and manipulated societies
In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is about a fireman named Guy Montag who loves his job of burning books since, they are illegal and houses of the owners of the books. When he meets his neighbor Clarisse, she made him realize that he is unhappy with his life and he does not love his wife, Mildred. Then, Montag starts to question why books are illegal and why do people have them. Throughout the novel, Montag is on the run from his censored society, he finds new friends that love books, when a jet bomb hits the city, Montag and his book friends go back to look for survivors and to rebuild the society.