Harrison Ford once said, “We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.” Guy Montag, protagonist of Ray Bradbury 's Fahrenheit 451, changes and grows significantly over the course of the novel due to his interactions with other characters. Only through the help of his peers and people he meets along the way, Guy Montag is given a chance to get a new perspective on a society where everything is normal instead of everything being backward. Ray Bradbury uses a variety of characters to facilitate Montag’s evolution from nonexistent, someone who is brainwashed and does not feel too someone who is existent, where he understands what 's going on around him.
Throughout Montag’s interactions with Clarisse, Montag realizes that there is so much more to what he sees …show more content…
He decides to take away the source of his problem, “We never burned right… Hand it over, Guy and then he was a shrinking blaze”.(119) From this event Montag realizes that in this current life he is living he can’t escape the society he’s living and the only way that he can escape is to find the people who is holding him back and get rid of those people. This helps Montag change as a character by having Montag realize what everything really is and that what around him is real and how what others portray that society as is not real.Furthermore, as Montag is running away he momentarily suffers a wave of remorse but quickly concludes that Beatty maneuvered him into the killing, ‘“Beatty, the woman, Mildred, Clarisse, everything. No excuse, though, no excuse”(122).Montag is feeling remorse his character from the beginning has evolved. Montag now has developed a sense of regret he now knows what’s wrong and what 's right.After he killed Beatty he keeps telling himself that there is no excuse of why he had killed him this proves that Montag is showing
Throughout Montag’s interactions with Clarisse, Montag realizes that there is so much more to what he sees …show more content…
He decides to take away the source of his problem, “We never burned right… Hand it over, Guy and then he was a shrinking blaze”.(119) From this event Montag realizes that in this current life he is living he can’t escape the society he’s living and the only way that he can escape is to find the people who is holding him back and get rid of those people. This helps Montag change as a character by having Montag realize what everything really is and that what around him is real and how what others portray that society as is not real.Furthermore, as Montag is running away he momentarily suffers a wave of remorse but quickly concludes that Beatty maneuvered him into the killing, ‘“Beatty, the woman, Mildred, Clarisse, everything. No excuse, though, no excuse”(122).Montag is feeling remorse his character from the beginning has evolved. Montag now has developed a sense of regret he now knows what’s wrong and what 's right.After he killed Beatty he keeps telling himself that there is no excuse of why he had killed him this proves that Montag is showing