Clarisse is an odd duck by this new world's gauges. She prefers nature, she isn't into brutality or TV, and she's not into empty mingling. She's occupied with odd things, which is the thing that attracts her to Montag – he's a firefighter without the average firefighter qualities. A darling of life and nature, Clarisse, an approachable neighbor who is seventeen, is the thwart of Mildred — Montag's frosty, careless, accommodating spouse. Delightfully human and mindful of her environment, Clarisse hates the reality discovering that goes for cutting edge instruction. She appreciates rain, dandelions, fall leaves, and even sessions with her expert, who misdiagnosis her richness for living. So Clarisse isn't attempting to show Montag anything. …show more content…
After their short stroll from the recreation center back to their homes, Montag couldn't quit pondering her; "Of course I’m happy. What does she think? I'm not?"(7) "What incredible power of identification the girl had; she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating each flicker of an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it began."(8). The motivation behind why she vanishes from the novel is on the grounds that that is the place he truly begins to do things more for himself since he begins thinking for himself. On the off chance that she hadn't vanished, he may have not done anything distinctive with his life. However, since she did, he changed his …show more content…
The Sieve and the Sand the main theme of the Sieve and the Sand is ignorance. This is apparent through Mildred's attitude and actions throughout the whole section. Her refusal of books displays the book's society as a whole. Their decisions to rely on more modern forms of media rather than books are the main basis for the story. Even Montag acts a bit ignorant based on his first encounter with Faber, not taking a for an answer in despair. He needs help and can't take now for answer rather than listening to reason from Faber. Ignorance is very present in this section, culminating in his house being called for holding books, obvious that Mildred betrayed
Montag eventually reaches a point where he can’t stand his normal life anymore. Clarisse, intentionally or not, has shocked Montag back into his childlike curiosity. All he wants to do is learn, something he’s never felt so attached to before. This is how Montag becomes comfortable enough with his wonder to start reading books. Within just a few moments of interaction with her, Clarisse was able to bring back the curiosity in Montag’s
Montag was never really happy with Mildred, his happiness was a mask he didn't know about. The mask had been taken off when Montag's true colors were shown. Mildred wasn't much of a wife, or friend, to Montag. Mildred was only an acquaintance to Montag, as Montag didn't feel devastated for long. ¨Mildred, leaning anxiously nervously, as if to plunge, drop, fall into that swarming immensity of color to drown in its bright happiness.¨ (Bradbury 152)
The displeasure these characters feel, for Montag, this begins with Clarisse. Meeting her was not the changing point but when she asked the question “Are you happy?” This the beginning of Montag questioning his life. It is shown how these feelings truly blossom by small actions Montag does. Montag not watching T.V., questioning his feelings for his wife and continuing to talk to Clarisse show how he is slowly changing in
Now because of this his relationship with Clarisse is stronger. He starts to go back to work and acquire more and more books. Montag figures out that what he has been doing is going come back to bite him … and it does. ‘You’ll be fine. This is a special case… ‘Here we are!’
Our society is doomed. Everyday we become more and more similar to the society within Fahrenheit 451 as we become less and less patient and more and more conform becoming what we think society wants us to be rather than what we ourselves want to be. Have you ever wanted something so bad and you just had to have it right now, you couldn’t wait any longer? This means you have felt instant gratification the need to have something right now no waiting. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the society is full of people who constantly have instant gratification.
(Bradbury 8). Montag is faced, for the first time, with having to examine his life and if he is actually happy. It destroys his “mask”, allowing him to see the problems of his life, and, more importantly, society. The new perspective “kills” a part of him, the part that was content with his perfect life (having a good,
In the futuristic book Fahrenheit 451 reality is turned upside down when heroes become villains. The world is blind to the evils that lay inside the government. The people who aren't are educated are hunted, and seen as insane. Morals will be put to the test, and although this book focuses on one man's journey through it all, it is very clear that the issues this fictional society faces could not be to far from issues what could happen in real life. Fahrenheit 451 is a direct representation of the theme man vs society and his journey to wake up the sleeping civilians of the United states.
After Mildred had been distracted, and accidentally overdosed on sleeping pills, he keeps realizing more things; like that he does not know where him and Mildred met. Consequently, after learning this he wants people to express their feelings deep down inside. Additionally, Faber influences Montag’s actions and choices. At the very end of the book Faber gives Montag advice, “You’d better head for the river if you can, follow along it, and if you can hit the old railroad lines going out into the country, follow them. Even though practically everything’s air-borne these days and most of the tracks are abandoned, the rails are still there, rusting.
From one of his first experiences with Clarisse, Montag feels something that he realizes he never felt before in his daily life. He ponders to himself, "How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?" (Bradbury 8). What Montag is pondering about is how she behaved so attentive and natural towards
As Clarisse questions why Montag begins to think about his actions and how they affect people as well as society. The reader realizes Montag is a puppet in the dystopian society following the protocol as he is told by society. Montag’s inability to reason with what he is doing makes him gullible. Montag’s society would consider him dangerous within his society, but in reality he is escaping what is a dysfunctional.
" Montag is really not sure because he later realizes that he really wasn 't happy when she asked that. I believe he shows his pessimistic side through all the characters except Montag and Clarisse and through the plot of the
She is the first person who challenges Montag and gets him to truly think. She triggers Montag’s questioning of life, what he is doing, and his relationship with his wife Mildred. Upon their first encounter Clarisse begins asking Montag questions, questions about a time when firefighters put out flames not started them, a time when life was a bit slower. She asks, “Are you happy?” once Clarisse is home Montag responds, “Of course I’m happy.
Throughout the story, Clarisse makes Montag question his surroundings; she makes Montag rethink his marriage, society and job. Clarisse’s claims eventually cause Montag to read books and rebel. Clarisse causes Montag to question his marriage when she claims, “You’re not in love with anyone.” (19). This realization allows Montag not to be dragged in Mildred’s world of drugs and
Everybody has a point in life where someone reminds them of something they have long forgotten and suddenly everything make sense. In the dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury titled Fahrenheit 451, the curious, sweet girl of the name Clarisse pops the bubble that Montag lives in. Bradbury includes Clarisse in the story to act as an eye opener for Montag. She introduces him to a past where firemen put out fires instead of starting them. Clarisse remains immune to the chatter of television and instead gazes through a kaleidoscope of colors that filters out the dull views of the government.
Fahrenheit 451 is a novel written by Ray Bradbury. It is considered to be dystopian fiction which is used to display different social structures throughout the book. Published in 1953, this story takes place in a futuristic city in the United States of America. Books are illegal to own and anyone in possession of them will have to get them burnt. That is the job a the firefighters.