In the current day and age, people rarely pick up a book before they fall asleep, and most people probably could not explain what Aldous Huxley wrote. The way of life in Bradbury’s dystopia was to employ firemen to burn intelligence and promote mass ignorance in an act to create an equilibrium of knowledge. Montag’s wife, who was hospitalized after their house was bombed, was scrutinized by robots and robot-like humans to extract every bit of knowledge (human blood) inside of Mildred and replace it with mechanically administered blood. (Bradbury 17). This act showed society’s need for ignorance and a “don’t ask questions, that’s just the way it is” type of system.
The plan was for Montag to find the hobos and evade the mechanical hound. (147, 152, 153) Evading the mechanical hound was easy with liquor. Another part of the plan was for Faber go make copies of the book Montag brought home from the Old Woman’s house. Montag ends up with the hobos and they memorize certain books. The town was destroyed because of the war nobody paid attention
Montag is her family, but she doesn't consider him as much as a family compaired to the parlor walls. Another example that Mildred should start thinking for herself is she pulled the alarm on her own husband, Montag. Montag did something against the law and Mildred didn't want to get into trouble so as a result of it, "she pulled the alarm" (Bradbury 115). She lost her husband because she listened to the
Overwhelmed by the task of reading, Montag looks to his wife for help and support, but she prefers television to her husband’s company and cannot understand why he would want to risk reading books. He remembers that he once met a retired English professor named Faber sitting in the park, and he decided that this man might be able to help him understand what he reads. He visits Faber who agrees to help Montag with his reading. “Nobody listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me.
He pushes her away so she does not make a scene and Millie insists and places her hand under the pillow. She feels the outline of the book and is shocked. Although she doesn't turn her husband in, Millie asks Beatty what would happen if a fireman brought a book home. Beatty mentions firemen are occasionally overcome by curiosity about the books they burn and may steal one to satiate that curiosity. When this happens, he continues, they are given a 24-hour respite to come to their senses and burn the book before their coworkers must do so for them.
Michael Barnard 12/10/12 English Paper New vs. Old In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the main character Montag is a fireman who burns books for a living. In the society that they live in books are illegal to own and to have in your possession, so the society needs people to help carry out the law of having no books. Montag starts to wonder what is so great about books that make people break the law, so he takes a couple from a house that they were supposed to burn down. When his wife finds out he has to beg Mildred to keep it a secret. He developed these temptations from a girl named Clarisse who is starting to catch on to what the past might have been like.
He realizes that they don't really have a relationship at all--he goes to work, she watches her television, and they don't talk. They don't connect. Later, when Montag tries to drag Mildred into reading books with him, their distance is even more apparent. Millie is irritated,
“Why don’t you keep your room cleaned like your sister? How’ve you got your hair fixed – what the hell stinks? Hair spray? You don’t see your sister using that junk (Oats 899).” Connie and her father did not have the best relationship either because her father “didn’t bother talking much to them (899).” Even to an extent Connie “wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over (899).” So it is easy to think that her personal feeling to her family and her suicidal thoughts could influence her dream in which Arnold Friend threatens to kill her family and ultimately to kill Connie. Arnold Friend was mentioned early in the book when Connie was hanging out with a boy she had just met and hooked up with for the night.
This is because Guy Montag, the main character of the story is a fireman. In this futuristic society, he burns books for a living because they are illegal and supposedly cause conflicts in the thinking of people in society. The second picture is of Montag, his boss Beatty, and the rest of the people that work at the fire station who burn books.
Montag works as a fireman and he has a wife named Mildred. As a fireman he has to burn books and start fires, not put them out. Montag has a man versus society conflict because he hides books in his house. In Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag struggles in his society. Montag struggles because he has a man versus society conflict.