Fahrenheit 451 Essay: Monttag Handling Situations

Montag Handling Situations In a world where books unexist, society struggles for individuality. Main character, Montag decides to take matters into his own hands by going through a series of dramatic events in hopes of improving the government and society ways. In the book, Fahrenheit 451, author Ray Bradbury uses the motif of hands to reveal that one's subconscious thoughts sometimes consume people, impacting decisions in both positive and negative ways. Montag’s hands played a big role throughout the novel, sometimes in negative ways. His hands would almost take over his decision making, often leaving him in troublesome situations. At the beginning of the story, readers were not yet familiar with the societiy. Because of this, readers …show more content…
Montag’s conscious remains blank and his self confident hands resemble a reflection of his emptiness that he will soon realize. As readers were taking through the firemen’s everyday job, one horrific experience for Montag arises. The woman called on refused to leave her home, resulting in the firemen (specifically Montag) burning down the house, resulting in the women’s suicide. “His hand had done it all, his hand with a brain of its own, with a conscious and a curiosity in each trembling finger had turned thief,” (Bradbury 35). Showing that Montag feels scared by using the word “trembling” really pulls out the fact that his hands worked as Montag’s subconscious. Trembling is a physical effect caused by the subconscious of his hands. In the moment, he really could not control himself as his hands took over to commit the wrongdoing. After the women had died, Montag carried a guilty conscious around, causing himself to become frightened and uneasy about his …show more content…
But most of them only lasted in the moment. Before he knew it, his hard times turned into favorable times. The first time Montag met Faber, he had asked for help. To get his way, Montag used his hands. “His hands, by themselves, like two men working together, began to rip the pages from the book. The hands tore the flyleaf and then the first and then the second page,” (Bradbury 84). This scene seemed very drastic in the way he tore apart the book and how Montag could have completely ruined his chances with Faber by acting out. In fact, at the time Faber had even thought that Montag resembled insanity. In the long run, little did either of them know that they would become a team in order to change the society and government they live in. “Montag saw the surprise there and himself glanced to his hands to see what new thing they had done. Thinking back later he could never decide whether the hands or Beatty's reaction to the hands gave him the final push toward murder,” (Bradbury 112). Killing Beatty could be considered one of the most impactful events that occurred in this book. Montag met a helpful group of people in the woods after causing a whole search party to form across the city. Granger, being one of the men Montag had met while running from the city who had the same thoughts and opinions as Montag did. “ It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it