Fahrenheit 451, a utopian and dystopian fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was set in the future, or in this case, sometime after 1990. The book was published in 1953, referring to the future, which would be present day, or even the past at this point. The novel was originally published by Ballantine Books and is in third person omniscient point of view. The protagonist of the novel is Guy Montag, a fireman who burns books for a living. Everything about Montag is as ironic as it gets. For one thing, he is a fireman, yet, he starts fires for a living. Also, his last name, Montag, was from the founder of the National Pencil Company, and yet again, he burns books for a living. I believe the author did this on purpose to one, make the situation more dramatic in irony and two, to foreshadow events that happen later in the story. Other characters include Mildred Montag, Guy's depressed and unemotionally attached wife who at one point, attempts suicide, Guy's fire chief, Captain Beatty, who hates books and seems …show more content…
Montag pulls out a book of poetry and the women are mortified. To his surprise, Mildred comes to his rescue by telling the women that reading the poetry is how the firemen demonstrate the book's uselessness. The women go off to file a complaint against Montag. To escape trouble, Montag goes to the fire station to give Beatty the book he was reading and to tell him how he was right. Beatty somehow knows Montag is lying. They then go to answer a call for a house, which ends up being Montag's house. His wife told on him. Montag is forced to burn his house. As Beatty is still bullying Montag, he throws the flamethrower at him and he burns to ashes. Montag begins to run. Suddenly, he sees it. The Mechanical hound, a gigantic machine that Beatty created injected him with an anesthetic. Montag destroys it with the flamethrower and continues to run with some books that were hidden in his
Mildred betrays Montag by telling Beatty that he has been reading books. Captain Beatty comes to Montag’s house and is going to make him burn his house down. Secretly, Montag is communicating with Faber through a special earpiece. Faber is trying to give Montag advice on how to get out of the situation but it is no use. Faber says, “ Montag, can’t you run, get away!
Montag had been caught reading books instead of burning them. Montag then was also told by Beatty to burn his house with a flamethrower and was going to be arrested after. While he was burning his house he had suddenly shot Beatty with the flamethrower and killed him so he could escape. He didnt think about what he was gonna do after he shot him; he just did it, with no care in the world. “And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling, gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him” (Bradbury 113).
Fahrenheit 451 is a novel by Ray Bradbury about a dystopian future where people are not allowed to have individual thoughts. The main character, Guy Montag, is a fireman whose job includes burning books in this censored society. Montag meets a young woman who completely changes his perspective on life. He then starts keeping books instead of burning them and becomes a rebel fleeing the ruined city to join a group of gypsy professors. As the protagonist, Montag undergoes many changes throughout the book due to many characters serving as catalysts: primarily one girl,
Confused and Unsure While ready 451 Fahrenheit by Ray Bradbury, impression that this book was pretty simple to understand and characters are completely straight forward might appear. However, analyzing behavior of each character and taking a different perspective on their actions will give more details about them and why did they react this way. Montag, the main character of the story, is very dedicated fireman that lives his daily routine. He never asks questions, until he meets Clarisse and Faber that open a whole new world to him. Now he is taken out of his routine and he faces new reality.
An alarm is called and soon they’re in front of Montag’s house where he is forced by Beatty to burn his own house with a flamethrower. When he is done, he comes out the house and Beatty starts to taunt him saying he’s going to arrest him. He then starts hitting Montag which causes the earpiece Faber gave Montag to fall to the ground. Beatty picks it up and hears Faber, he threatens to trace it and find him. Enraged by the thought, Montag points the flamethrower to Beatty and burns him to ashes.
After Montag reads the poetry to his wife’s friends, he gets reported to the firefighters. He then is forced to burn down his own house with a flamethrower. He follows through with the captains orders and destroys his own house. Following this, the captain begins to taunt Montag about his new passion for books. Montag proceeds to kill the captain with the flamethrower and flee the scene, all out of anger.
Fahrenheit 451 is a book written by Ray Bradbury that describes a time in the future when all literature is forbidden. Books are a rare sight and if they are owned by a person they can be placed under arrest. Firemen are called in to reported houses that contain books to burn the house down. Firemen have rules such as, answer the alarm quickly, start the fire quickly, burn everything, report back to the firehouse immediately, stay alert for next alarm. Guy Montag is a fireman who enjoys starting the fires.
After Montag finished burning the books, he went on to burn the parlor without hesitation. He described the people of the parlor as monsters. Beatty watched Montag burn the books, the walls, and also his house. He then threatens
Montag believes that the mechanical hounds or the other firemen will possibly catch him. Montag could of got away with having books until Mildred turns him into the fire station and come to his house in search for the books. Mildred brings out her shallow side in the relationship and does not believe Montag should have books what so ever in the house. Mildred kicked at a book, “ Books aren’t people. You read and I look around, but there isn’t anybody” (Bradbury20).
Montag with the Fire Captain, Beatty and the rest of the firemen went on a call later to be discovered as Montag's house. When arriving aat his house Montag struggles with straying away from his old views and believing his new values. During the time that Beatty is forcing Montag to burn his house. Montag thinks “and as before, it was good to burn…fire was best for everything,” he’s conflicting between his old and new views (110). After Montag burned his house he had a moment of clarity, realizing that all Clarisse had told him had made sense.
Montag lives with his wife, Mildred, and works as a fireman who burns books along with the houses that they belong to. For Montag, burning books was a pleasure and he convinces himself that he loves his job. But Montag’s character developed more as the story continued on. Events that caused a change in Montag’s personality was when he first talked with Clarisse, when he saw Mildred attempting suicide, when he stole a book while burning a house, when Montag goes to see Faber, and when Montag sees a woman kill herself along with her books.
The novel, Fahrenheit 451, presents a future society where books are prohibited and the firemen burn any that are. The title is the temperature at which books burn. It was written by Ray Bradbury and first published in October 1953. In this novel, protagonist Montag changes his understanding in various aspects such as love or his human relationship throughout the book. However, among all of these, fire – the main theme of this novel – has the most significance as it also changes his understanding of knowledge from books.
Then Montag went and did the worst thing possible, he read a poem to Mildred’s friends, Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles. After he read the poem, he fled the house and went to turn in a book to Beatty. What he didn’t know is that the ladies have turn in an alarm and Mildred did too. The firemen, Montag, and Beatty made their way to Montag’s house. Beatty reveals that he knew all along that Montag was lying and made Montag burn down his own house.
Montag rebels against everything he knows to gain knowledge that he is not able to gain by the law. Montag also has ideas on how to overthrow the firemen. The largest act of Montag being an anti hero is killing his boss to stop the burning of books. He switched the safety catch on the flamethrower. Bradbury states, “.”Beatty glanced instantly at Montag's fingers and his eyes widened the faintest bit.”
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury in 1953, is about a dystopian society in the future times. Bradbury successfully argues that an individual's ability to be physically and mentally active is destroyed as we are blinded with technology and pure knowledge in books are eliminated. Although his book is well supported through his creative use of figurative language, his failure to create suspense makes the resolution predictable. Montag the main character is a fireman whose life and thoughts change when he meets Clarisse, a intellectual teen, and witnesses a woman set ablaze for having books.