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Fahrenheit 451 Character Analysis

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Beatty compares Montag to the story of Icarus to show Montag’s character Development. “Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he’s burnt his damn wings, he wonders why. Didn’t I hint enough when I sent the Hound around your place?” (p. 113) Characters compare Montag to characters in mythology, which can also relate to my life. Montag used enjoy the company of other firemen, who played games of death. “The men slid down brass poles, and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory systems of the Hound and let loose rats in the firehouse areaway… there would be betting to see which of the cats or chickens or rats the Hound would seize first… Montag stayed upstairs most nights when this went on. There had been a time two years ago when he had bet with the best of them.” (Bradbury, 22) Montag no longer enjoys the primal love for death, which shows how he is changing in character from the other fireman. Montag began to change into someone entirely different, a person with an almost overwhelming thirst for knowledge. “He put his hand back up and took out two books and moved his hand down and dropped the two books to the floor. He kept moving his hand and dropping books.” (Bradbury, 63) Montag hiding books in his house is dangerous, and his having a stockpile is irrational and …show more content…

“Do you know the Legend of Hercules and Antaeus, the giant wrestler, whose strength was incredible so long as he stood firmly on the earth? But when he was held, rootless, in midair, by Hercules, he perished easily.” (Bradbury, 79) Faber told Montag this myth to explain that their government and the enablers of it needed to be pulled from the ground to be defeated. They need to have the people no longer supporting it, and they need to pull the government’s hold on the people to kill it. Faber is also saying that Montag, along with others like himself, are like Hercules because they will uproot the

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