Montag is an humble character that has to deal with people with suicidal problems, and self-righteous people preventing others from receiving the knowledge from books. The dynamic character is stuck in a life that was chosen by ignorance, and is determined to find a new life through books. In addition, the phoenix that appears often in the novel signifies that Montag's life is finally purified and reborn by the very fire he has been spewing for years. During the course of the plot, Montag evolves from an apathetic, conformist fireman, the very essence of socially acceptable stagnancy, to a new man filled with strong ideals and beliefs. He has a new purpose in life, to preserve books and the knowledge they contain.
As suddenly as Clarisse entered Montag’s life, she quickly exited. Her death itself was an example of the things she talked about, how fast people really go in this society. Her death emphasizes all that is wrong with Montag's conformist society. Bradbury uses her to show the inhumanity of the society in his novel to the reader. Her death prompted him to get serious about the things that were wrong with his world, for him to go ahead and steal books from the fires, and read them openly.
Montag then goes against the society and his boss, Beatty. Beatty realizes that Montag is starting to change, and wants to prevent Montag from going against him, and the law. However, Montag keeps his views against society, and decides to keep his stolen books. “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it”.
The relationships between humans and technology have grown closer than the relationships between humans themselves. If left unchecked, a world where people are impersonal, creatures of habit and seduction is predicted. In Fahrenheit 451, Guy’s wife, Mildred, spends most of time focusing on the T.V screen. She often talks to the T.V as if she were in a play or as if they were her family. Mildred wants to extend her involvement with technology and has little desire to do anything else.
Farenheight 451 Set in the 24th century, Farenhieght 451 tells the story of the protagonist, Guy Montag. At first Montag takes pleasure in his profession as a fireman, burning illegally owned books and the homes of their owners. However, Montag quickly starts questioning the value of his profession and in turn, his life. Throughout the novel Montag struggles with his existence, turning to books for answers. This leads to Montag leaving his censored society and joining an underground group of intellectuals known as the “book people”.
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.
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.
The consumer ethos is taking over our universities and younger generations in general. In my experience people seem to be less likely now more than ever to challenge their own mind set and actually learn anything other than what they feel like they should. I personally gather information from everything I interact with and use that information to update myself. It seems that most people are against rather than for this type of interaction. The outward attitude of “I am too busy, too important and too jaded to care.” comes across quite frequently in my interactions with people.
(3, cell1-3) The dark omens for things to come are shown in pale colors such as grey and brown before the incineration of literature and again the artist highlights classical books such as The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, The Fall of The House Of Usher, Hedda Gabbler (33, cell 2-4) Later on as Captain Beatty recounts the dark tale of how things became the way they are, the classic books are portrayed on a dark light to emphasize the captain’s negative point of view of literature in general. Hamlet, Trasure Island, Moby Dick, and Time Magazine are all bad to society according to Beatty and the artist uses dark greens, to pale greys in this dark picture. (47, cell 3) Then as Montag tries to review the books he has hidden, the background is portrayed in a soft lighter blue and I think it gives a contrast to Beatty’s negativity on books. Blue is soft color that brings tranquility and peace of mind with a solid ground to meditate. This time Guy is searching for a light for the dark world he realizes that he lives in.
The Importance of Perspective “It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view” and the view point you see the world from hinges on your behaviour (Eliot, 91). Fahrenheit 451 is based around the world of Guy Montag, a fireman whose job it is to burn books and the houses that contain them in order to assist the government in supressing dissenting ideas. The government believes that these dissenting ideas come from thinking and as a result they fill people’s lives with television and radio to avoid giving them down time for thought. Early on, Montag is fine with this oppression of free thought until he meets a young girl. This girl turns his understanding upside down and Montag winds up stealing a book from a burning, contacting an old English professor to assist him in his rebellion.