William Shakespeare 's ' The Helmet '

On the morning of Thursday November 4th, a group of firemen were called to an old lady’s

Guy Montag wears a uniform with a salamander patch on the arm and a Phoenix disc on his chest. The salamander represents the descendant of a dragon that breathes fire. The salamander and fireman both destroy things with fire and represent destruction.

Fire and flames have been used as symbols by many authors. Fire is representative of Montage. He was a fireman who made fires rather than put them out. He was around them all the time, whether it was around a campfire or burning down a house. Montag and fire were

“You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow. (Page 21)

He takes a lot pride in his hard work with the local fire department. He was not a happy person, he was unhappy with his marriage A third-generation fireman, in the book Montag is stereotypical , with his black hair, black brows, fiery face, and blue-steel shaved but unshaved look. He all of a sudden realizes the vacancy in his life. One thing he wishes he could change in his life was not having a closer relationship with his own wife.

He is only the fire chief. He is the closeted to the books and the quote on quote people haven't even seen a book in their lives.

Captain of the firemen and he is the one who discovers Montag’s secret and tries to make him burn down his own house.

He shows Montag is a fireman but has a softer side when he runs into a young girl. He is different from other firemen because he listens to what the interesting girl is saying.

Imagine a society where books are banned, technology has taken over and is on the verge of a world war. This is what you encounter when reading the totalitarian novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury from the perspective of the protagonist Guy Montag, a fireman with the task of burning every still existing book there is. Throughout the course of the novel, he begins questioning his current life-situation and evolves from a workaholic to a rule-breaking rebel in a matter of days. Considering the occupation of the protagonist, fire coincidentally has a significant role in this story, however, the symbolism changes coherently with Montag himself. The meaning of fire and burning provides dimension and depth and thus making it a food for thought type

Ray Bradbury once stated, “I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act … During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.” (The Paris Review). Bradbury’s may not have consciously placed symbolism in Fahrenheit 451, but his use of symbolism throughout the story allows the reader to relate back to their most basic instincts, all while seeing a deeper meaning to what they are really looking at.

2). Of course, the other firemen dismissed the old woman as mad. Montag starts to wonder if he will end up the same.

“And then Clarisse McClellan said: ‘Do you mind if I ask? How long’ve you worked at being a fireman? ‘Since I was twenty, ten years ago.’ ‘Do you ever read any of the books you burn?’ He laughed.

Fisher and paul watched an old red fire engine cruising slowly up and down the streets. The fire engine turned in there direction. They waved and hollered and manages to attract the driver’s attention. When the engine rolled up in front of our house and the driver got out, he came alone. He had on knee-high black and yellow boots, a pair of cutoff shorts, and a white t-shirt that had Tangerine Volunteer Fire Department Wayne written over breast pocket.

The crew was not prepared for the fire when it suddenly arrived. A wave of fire, heat, and smoke over took them by surprise, Eight of the crew deployed their shelters on the road and the two civilians took shelter with one of the crew members. The squad boss was high above the road in the rock scree watching the fire. He ran down towards the road but couldn’t get there before the fire arrived, He turned around and ran back up the slope were the other four crew members and the crew boss was.

In this novel the “hero” is Guy Montag. Guy is a fireman who believes he is happy. Contrary to the jobs of firemen today, his job is to start fires rather than put them out. He burns books and the houses that inhabit them to ashes. Montag lives a very mundane life, like the rest of society. However, when he meets Clarisse McClellan, a young curious neighbor, everything begins to spiral down as she makes him notice what he is missing in his life. Something has been taken away from him that makes him feel empty and discontent. “He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.” (Bradbury 12).