The purpose of conformity and cooperation revolve around the idea of people being each other 's equal and everyone following the rules laid upon them, but when their is a resistance the result could be catastrophic. Guy Montag is a man who embraces his job of burning books and is too ignorant to see what he is actually doing, but when he meets his neighbor she opens his mind to see what his life actually consists of and alters his awareness towards what is occurring all around him. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Guy Montag, evolves throughout the book and is influenced by the people he meets including his troubled wife Mildred, his peculiar neighbor Clarisse, and his unpredictable boss, Captain Beatty.
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Captain Beatty is an unpredictable and strict man who may not be all that he seems. In the beginning of the book, Montag is seen to have a “fierce grin” that “never went away” and has been a fireman “since [he] was twenty” or for “ten years”(2,5). To do a job this long you need to like and respect your boss who in this case is Captain Beatty. When Montag goes to a call and burns a women alive who “stood below like a small girl” surrounded by “slaughtered birds[books]” he stays home “sick” from work the next day (34,36). After Beatty comes to visit him and preaches that the government is right Montag sees that he is becoming like his boss and begins to rebel by “putting his hand back up [grill of air conditioning system] and took out two books… moved his hand down and dropped the books to the floor”(63). Montag begin to rebel by reading, which greatly interested him, and made him happy. When Beatty finds out and almost makes Montag burn his own house Montag makes Beatty a “shrieking balze, jumping, sprawling gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame” (113,116). After all of this happens Montag realizes that Beatty wanted to die by taunting him through reading a poem in a book that he read. This shows that Beatty wasn’t completely sold on the society’s way of doing things, but didn’t have the courage to do anything. This made Montag take a step back and look at what is going on and then confront the fact that he can never be truly happy until he accepts that he needs to follow his heart and do what makes him happy. This is the final push for Montag to leap through that new door and grab hold of his new
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Captain Beatty is an unpredictable and strict man who may not be all that he seems. In the beginning of the book, Montag is seen to have a “fierce grin” that “never went away” and has been a fireman “since [he] was twenty” or for “ten years”(2,5). To do a job this long you need to like and respect your boss who in this case is Captain Beatty. When Montag goes to a call and burns a women alive who “stood below like a small girl” surrounded by “slaughtered birds[books]” he stays home “sick” from work the next day (34,36). After Beatty comes to visit him and preaches that the government is right Montag sees that he is becoming like his boss and begins to rebel by “putting his hand back up [grill of air conditioning system] and took out two books… moved his hand down and dropped the books to the floor”(63). Montag begin to rebel by reading, which greatly interested him, and made him happy. When Beatty finds out and almost makes Montag burn his own house Montag makes Beatty a “shrieking balze, jumping, sprawling gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame” (113,116). After all of this happens Montag realizes that Beatty wanted to die by taunting him through reading a poem in a book that he read. This shows that Beatty wasn’t completely sold on the society’s way of doing things, but didn’t have the courage to do anything. This made Montag take a step back and look at what is going on and then confront the fact that he can never be truly happy until he accepts that he needs to follow his heart and do what makes him happy. This is the final push for Montag to leap through that new door and grab hold of his new