Ray Bradbury is making a point about freedom, that sometimes you need to fight for it and go above the limits to do what is right. Fahrenheit 451, explores how the government is the enemy to personal freedom because it decides for society what is supposed to be right. Montag cold never be happy unless he was free. He discovers through the novel that the only way to be free is to face his problems. Not only does he need to face his problems but he needs to kill his problem. Montag must fight for his own freedom.
Montag learns that you could never be happy unless he was free.Clarisse is different from society and she shows Montag that he can be free. Montag has strong intuition and therefore he goes against the law to seek his own personal freedom. Montag didn’t care that …show more content…
Montag learns that without freedom there is no peace. When he witnesses a woman, who dies with her books, it makes Montag question what exactly is so important about books; “Play in the man, master Ridley: we shall this day light such a candle, by god's grace, in England as I trust shall never be put out” After that he takes books from the houses he burns and puts them in the back of the air conditioner. When Montag reads he understands what Clarisse meant when she said how life should be experienced. He knew that books were the key to freedom and that books are the thing that showed him that he could be free. This is when Montag realizes he has been burning the wrong problem.Montag is not happy, he knows that there must be an explanation for why a woman was willing to die for her books. Montag felt that freedom must be worth the high price. Montag fights for his own freedom. When Montag shows up for work captain Beatty, of the fire department, takes him into the house that he must burn; his own house. Once Montag burns his house he confronts Beatty and chooses to kill him with a flame