Comparison Of Icarus In Fahrenheit 451

In a society where firemen starts fires, and people are executed for wanting to gain and learn knowledge, Montag, a fireman for ten years, rethinks his way of living in his society and rebelled against it. Montag finds himself exchanging thoughts with a girl named Clarisse, who sways his way of thinking by asking him one simple question, if he is happy. Montag immediately replies yes, however when he reflects on the question he then realizes that he is not, in fact, happy. From then on Montag rebels against the depressing and violent society to turn to his happiness in knowledge. Montag 's decision to rebel against the social norm is closely related to the stories Icarus and Jesus, that Bradberry alludes to in Fahrenheit 451. In the story of Icarus, and Montag 's life in Fahrenheit 451, they both portray similarities such as; they both have been lock up or confined, they both collect …show more content…
They “collected hundreds of feathers . . . and were held together with a strong wax” in order to make wings which they would use in order to escape, and fly away, from their prison. Once the father and son had successfully built their wings for the both of them, hey both set off to fly to the city of Sicily. “Icarus, not too high, not too close to the sun,” his father yelled at him, not wanting caruss wax on his wings to melt, and Icarus fall into the sea and die. However, with Icarus 's craving of knowledge, and his stubbornness, he flew too close to the sun, and his wax melted, then he soon plummeted to his death.The confinement that they go through is in a cell, for Icarus, then, for Montag, is in a society which he can not express his feelings towards