Protangonism In Fahrenheit 451 And Equilibrium?

Register to read the introduction… People in this society are miserable. They don't care about one another or have anything to talk about. Mrs. Phelps, a friend of Montag's wfie Mildred, has had 3 husbands that either killed themselves or went of to war. Mildred's other friend, Mrs. Bowles sends her children away to school to get away from them. She even had given birth by Caesarian sections because there is "no use of going through all that agony for a baby". They often enjoy violence and danger for entertainment such as driving jet cars at fast speeds and running animals over or cartoon that invovles chopping off limbs. Captain Beatty, tells Montag that this soceity became this way because people we're offended by things that written in books, so to keep peace they were destroyed. Also, as society gotten more advanced in technology, books lost their value. There wasn't a need for them because the were too long so they we're made simplier, shorter, less conflicting, and barely a book at all. In the film Equilibrium, the protangnist is John Preston. He is a warrior and enforcement that is supposed to burn all objects that kill bring …show more content…
She tells him about how firemen used to put out fires, not start them, and that people had thought for themselves. One night after Montag left work, he meets Clarisse on the walk home. She talks to him and before she leave she asks him "Are you happy?" and that changed him. After he meets Clarisse, he takes a book from a home while they were burning it. It is revealed he has a lot of books and he starts to read them. Montag wants understanding of the books he has read so he seeks a man name Faber to help him. John Preston wakes up one morning and accidentally breaks his vial of prozium and oesnt have a replacement. They place they go to get their dose is closed so Preston starts to have feelings. He continues to not take his doses