Character Analysis Of Guy Montag In Fahrenheit 451

As this generation becomes more technologically advanced, we have steered away from literature and have turned to electronics. A large majority of society has begun to pass their time with movies, shows, and video games, instead of books, puzzles, other games to exercise the mind. Instead of sitting with a good book, most would prefer to sit in front of the TV. A complex character would be a person who is mixed between nature and experience, such as a person who has Catholic views, but believes in gay rights although they were brought up to believe it was wrong. Most stories have a complex character, such as Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451. Montag is a perfect example of a complex character. Montag is a fire fighter, but he is not an ordinary fire fighter. In the society of “Fahrenheit 451”, firefighters do not stop the fires, they start them. In the story, no one is allowed to read or have books. Once someone is found with a book, they burn the book, along with the house, and sometimes the people as well. The government had characterized books as …show more content…
He begins reading books and collecting them, finding he does not agree with the rules and regulations that the government has proclaimed. Being a firefighter who is reading books and is interested in them is the same as a police officer doing illegal drugs in our modern time. He begins to find that books are able to move people, and snaps when he must burn a house with the woman in it. He then reads it to his wife and her friends and makes one of the women begin to cry. The other friend then states angrily, “Life isn’t like novels. Novels and tears, novels and suicide. That was sheer cruelty….All those words…evil words, those hurt people” (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451). It’s as if Montag has realized that the government wishes to make everyone zombies, not feeling anything, especially the way a book can move the