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Fahrenheit 451 Significance Of Women

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Meyall Michael Michael 1

Ms. Sheahan

English ENG3U

December 16th 2014

The Significance of Women

In the books 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 women have a big impact. Women such as Montag's wife Mildred and neighbor Clarisse and in 1984 Winstons girlfriend Julia. These women not only change the plot of these novels but also changed the character of the protagonists which are Winston and Montag. Some affairs were not sexual between the two either. Montags relationship with Clarisse was not any way the same like the one with julia and winston who did have a very sexual relationship. The women in these novels changed the plot and character in the novels 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.

The women in the novels affect the plot greatly in Fahrenheit 451. There are two women who affect Montag, which are Clarisse and Mildred, unlike in 1984 Winston is …show more content…

The good part is he runs away and meets Granger, the bad part is his city he used to live in got destroyed by the war. “Are you happy ?” ( Bradbury 10 ) This quote from Clarisse changed Montag. It showed him that he wasn't happy because he knew he didn't have freedom and he wanted

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to be free from the government, his job and his wife. Even though she appears only in the part 1 of the book she still makes an impact in the end of the novel.

Winston ends up going to the prison with Julia and in the end he like big brother through manipulation. He and Julia lose their bond that they had. "You're only a rebel from the waist downwards," he told her. ( 2.5 p.163 Orwell) Julia and Winston never really did benefit from the other the way that Montag and Clarisse did. Winston said she was only a rebel for the sexual actions and thats it. Julia did do both good and bad stuff for Winston but Clarisse did a lot of good things for Montag. They both whether good or bad impacts ahd big ones on these

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