His voice is like butter. I’m afraid he’ll talk me back the other way I was. Only a week ago, pumping a kerosene hose, I thought: God, what fun!’”(Bradbury 85) With Faber's help, Montag returns to his job to confront Captain Beatty. Beatty recites many lines of several different works of literature, in attempt to change Montag back into a follower of society. Again, Beatty tries to bring Montag down one last time, his dying words are quoted from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “There is no terror, Cassius, in your/ threats, for I am arm’d so strong in honesty that/ they pass me in an idle wind, which I respect not!” (Bradbury 119).
At the climax, the hero is severely tested once more on the threshold of home. He or she is purified by a last sacrifice, another moment of death and rebirth, but on a higher and more complete level. By the hero’s action, the polarities that were in conflict at the beginning are finally resolved. RETURN WITH THE ELIXIR. The hero returns home or continues the journey, bearing some element of the treasure that has the power to transform the world as the hero has been transformed.
The monomyth, on the other hand, is the “mythological adventure of the hero” (Campbell 30). This is the general path that the mythic hero travels to complete his quest. The two cycles are intertwined. As the cosmogonic cycle descends from the unconscious to the conscious, the world loses touch with the divine. “And then a savior will be born [...]” (Campbell 264).
Yen Chung Chung 1 English 101 Spring 2013 Professor Mark Higgin The Art of a Hero There is a saying that goes: “Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy”. Every hero’s story is a journey from the most beautiful moment to the most painful tragedy. Victor from the movie “Smoke Signal” personifies a hero’s journey as defined by Joseph Campbell in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The Reward stage, which belongs to act II, is the achievement of the hero takes possession of the treasure won by facing death. “I might be a special weapon like a magic sword, or a token like the Grail or some elixir which can heal the wounded land.
The book shows many examples of sacrifice, with many different characters. The main character in the novel is named Guy Montag. He is one of the firefighters in the book that is directed to go to any home with books, and burn it to the ground. In the novel, firefighters start fires rather than putting them out. He lives in a city in the future where books, basic nature, and simple things are outlawed.
In the novel Fahrenheit 451 about a dystopian 24th century society, Ray Bradbury included several themes. One of the major themes throughout the novel is knowledge must always overcome ignorance. The actions of the main character, the other characters that Ray Bradbury included in the novel and the actions of the supporting characters combine to make this a major theme of Fahrenheit 451. Throughout the novel the actions of Guy Montag, the main character, reminds the reader of the importance of knowledge. In the story Guy Montag is a firefighter who sets fires instead of extinguishing them.
Through greatness one must die to be remembered as a legend. The poem allows Death to voice that he doesn't reflect gory, but glory. Death speaks of the runner as a champion, but justifies that in life; victors fade and become meaningless in the eyes of the masses: So set, before the echoes fade, the fleet foot on the sill of shade. Death was able to set the runner free before he would face humiliation of witnessing his prestige fade
Throughout the course of the 1953 novel, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses fire to symbolize multiple different things. As people know today, the outlook on the use of fire can vary from scenario to scenario based off of its effects, but Bradbury takes those outlooks and meaning to the extreme. Bradbury uses fire in many different instances to powerfully symbolize the destruction, or even the purification during several parts of his prophetic novel to empower his work with a deeper meaning. To begin with, the future turns to a world flooded with pyromaniacs searching for a way to completely engulf their problems in flame. These people adore fire, adore the reason for a lack of confrontation, because, “its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences” (Bradbury 115).
Bryan Liang Mandie Dunn 9th Lit/Comp Honors 12 Sep 2012 The Egg of the Phoenix Fire is more than the combustion of chemicals. It ignites infernos, as well as grand revolutions. Fire is life itself, a perpetual motion of destruction and construction replenishing and destroying at the same rate. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury depicts fire as both ying and yang, symbolizing the constant balance between death and rebirth, the cycle of life. Throughout the novel, death and destruction are represented through fire.
It is the job of the firemen to burn books to prevent the spread of dissension and independent thought. Guy Montag is one such fireman. He enjoys his job and is happy, or so he thinks until one day he meets his new neighbor. Clarisse McClellan is a 17-year-old who is unlike anyone Montag has ever met. She is inquisitive and interested in the world around her