Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a novel about the importance of books; but not only is it about the importance, it also includes the stages of Monomyth. These stages are the departure, the initiation, and the return. Included in each stage are optional variations that aid to the stages and helps in expressing the Monomyth journey. Stage one is the departure, which is the start of an adventure that is not part of the person’s original or “real” world. For Montag, this happens when he accidentally meets Clarisse and she starts asking questions that make Montag notice something different about her. This difference is that she sees life in a whole set of new eyes than anyone else does. What really sparked Montag’s curiosity was the question
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He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run of across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back” (page 9). Montag was truly not happy, he faked his happiness, but when Clarisse asked the question, it made Montag think clearly about life and what would make him happy. He later thought that reading and understanding books would make him happy. It was not until he stole a book from Mrs. Blake’s house that he started to have a greater desire to start this journey in a world of new discoveries. After Clarisse disappeared, Montag went to Professor Faber, who was an old English professor, for help. Faber helped Montag cross the threshold from his …show more content…
Montag had so many dispositions placed before him. However, Faber, who was a father figure, helped motivate Montag when he was in trouble to choose the better right, or even to continue with his desire of learning from books. Montag, later in the book followed in Faber’s ways by living a secret disguised life. Some dispositions in his life were his wife, Mildred, opposed about books and changing their way of life, her friends, and Beatty, Montag’s boss. Beatty had downsized Montag for having books in his possession; he then compared Montag to a fire saying, “What is fire? … Its real beauty is that it gets burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now Montag, you’re a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later” (page 109). This angered Montag because at one point in time Montag thought Beatty was a friend to him. During this journey, Montag envisioned a world where books would be present and how he could introduce them into society. There were so many trials of opposition to get through for Montag, and these proved to be the true challenges that could have kept him from getting to his new life destination. The ultimate boon that occurred for Montag, however, was that he realized that he needed to actually get back to his job and live his life, yet he still had a hope for the future engrained in his
He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run of across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back” (page 9). Montag was truly not happy, he faked his happiness, but when Clarisse asked the question, it made Montag think clearly about life and what would make him happy. He later thought that reading and understanding books would make him happy. It was not until he stole a book from Mrs. Blake’s house that he started to have a greater desire to start this journey in a world of new discoveries. After Clarisse disappeared, Montag went to Professor Faber, who was an old English professor, for help. Faber helped Montag cross the threshold from his …show more content…
Montag had so many dispositions placed before him. However, Faber, who was a father figure, helped motivate Montag when he was in trouble to choose the better right, or even to continue with his desire of learning from books. Montag, later in the book followed in Faber’s ways by living a secret disguised life. Some dispositions in his life were his wife, Mildred, opposed about books and changing their way of life, her friends, and Beatty, Montag’s boss. Beatty had downsized Montag for having books in his possession; he then compared Montag to a fire saying, “What is fire? … Its real beauty is that it gets burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now Montag, you’re a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later” (page 109). This angered Montag because at one point in time Montag thought Beatty was a friend to him. During this journey, Montag envisioned a world where books would be present and how he could introduce them into society. There were so many trials of opposition to get through for Montag, and these proved to be the true challenges that could have kept him from getting to his new life destination. The ultimate boon that occurred for Montag, however, was that he realized that he needed to actually get back to his job and live his life, yet he still had a hope for the future engrained in his