Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury teaches that the voice of a people cannot be quieted or controlled. There will always be those that will stand up to authority even in the face of grave danger. Bradbury’s use of fire throughout the novel symbolizes the protagonist’s, Montag, journey of enlightenment, from its ability to take as much as it can be used to give. In the beginning of the novel Montag sees the world like everyone at that time. Fire was meant to strike fear in the hearts of people, but yet Montag says “it was a pleasure to burn.” He didn’t understand what the consequences of him burning the books had, and neither did the rest of the world.
The main character Guy Montag is known as a “firefighter”, but instead of putting out fires he starts them. His job is to burn any and all books that are found and in doing so prevent the people of the world from developing any real ideas for themselves. Montag has three relationships that help in his personal transformation; this includes Clarisse, Mildred and Faber. These three characters aide him in many ways and help him to make a discovery in which he becomes an individual. This novel allows the reader to realize how important interpersonal communication is to society, without it there is no room to develop meaningful relationships or new outlooks on life as we
Fahrenheit 451: Montag’s Change Fire plays a very important and complicated role in Fahrenheit 451. The Phoenix, bird of fire, comes at the end of the book as a symbol of renewal. Granger believes that citizens in the book are much like the Phoenix: they are doing the same things everyday just like Phoenix burns itself, but is born all over again. In the novel, fire symbolizes destruction, but also change, and renewal, so it is considered as a bad and a good thing. Though all the people around Montag have a huge impact on him to change his point of view, it is Clarisse who changes him the most, even more than Faber.
You should read the book to gain more knowledge, improve vocabulary, and let your mind wonder. Our world will become doomed if no one picks up a book, thinks, or tries to improve the
He reads an excerpt of “Dover Beach” to Mildred and her friends, and this can be an extremely dangerous thing to do because he has a book. It takes extreme courage to break the law at all for the purpose of a good cause, which is what Montag was doing. ‘Behind each of these books, there's a man. That's what interests me.’ This quote can mean several things, but what sticks out the most is that Montag is actually trying to read them instead of just following everyone else, and burning the books. All throughout the book, Guy Montag stands up for what he believes is right and not like the dystopian government that takes place during that time.
If he was a good person from the start he wouldn’t have become a fireman in the first place, when his curiosity built on books he was becoming greedy for the knowledge, and finally, he killed his chief because of emotions. People who have read this book might have sympathized Guy Montag for he was changing to be a better person but overall he isn’t really the best hero. In Fahrenheit 451, the beginning of the book describes Montag doing his job as a fireman, a man who burns books. Books were considered illegal and so these men would have to search for them and burn them. These men were considered the “bad guys” right off the bat and Montag was a part of them.
Montag’s Big Change : Fahrenheit 451 Some may say time changes things, but in reality a person has to change things themselves. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character Guy Montag, a fireman who lives in a futuristic society that does no put out fires but starts them realizes that he is actually interested in the one thing he burns. Being a fireman for this community Guy is to burn all books he comes into contact with making it harder for him to find the answers he seeks. Throughout this book Guy shows a change of heart towards the books and their value in this society. This change makes him aware of what is wrong with this society and wanting to read books rather than being like rest of the society by watching and
Visualize a world where books and unique thoughts are forbidden and or heavily restricted as the government attempts to keep individuals from thinking for themselves. While most would dismiss this situation as impossible, in Ray Bradbury’s famous novel Fahrenheit 451, this “unfathomable” dystopian is considered normal, every day life. Although the content and description of the futuristic story make the novel moving, the amazing use of symbolism throughout the chronicle is what truly gives the book its profound significance. Bradbury warns his audience what may happen if novels and society’s ability to be inimitable are ripped away by incorporating the symbols of Guy Montag’s rebirth in the river, how replacing Mildred’s blood did not revitalize her soul, and the sieve and the sand to gaining and retaining facts and knowledge. One event that occurs during times of traumatic change is the renaissance or rebirth of an individual.
Each event had lead to a new beginning for Montag. Guy Montag, his name simple but with deep meaning, what the author thought as he wrote the book wasn’t necessarily what it is deciphered as, in a sense it’s trying to explain he was an average everyday male. He was but a simple man where book burning had become his favorite pastime. The books were his to burn, or were they? He was devoted to his work,
The knowledge and ignorance in the story was greatly important to us as a motivation to do different in some cases. ““Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said. But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic books survive.”” There are knowledge we use today but also some ignorance.