A man who'd always had charcoal fingers seems to have washed his hands. After 20 years of burning books, Guy Montag met a young girl who led his hands to the water. Clarisse McClellan was "seventeen and crazy," and somehow, she entered his mind and showed him that he was unhappy. Earlier in his life, he'd met an old, cowardly philosopher by the name of Fabor. Fabor also helped push through the thick skull that the society had built up over his brain. Why would these people try to convince…
Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books for a living. Yes, that's his job! That’s because books are banned! The government banned books and has turned America into an awful place. School starts early so they can manipulate the little one’s minds and it results in a passionless world. Marriage without love and kids murdering kids without a care in the world sounds like a lovely place to live, doesn’t it? Not at all. The First Amendment claims that no law will be made to respect or disrespect any…
A hero is not someone who goes against the law and society. Guy Montag does just that in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. He goes against what being a hero means. Montag cannot be considered a heroic figure because of his past as a fireman and his criminal acts even though some might say they were justified. Montag’s past as a fireman and his way of thinking is why he can not be a hero. As a fireman Montag used to burn books just like all the other firemen. He didn’t just do it because it was…
“The Obsolete Man” takes place in a futuristic time in which books are banned and the occupation of a librarian is seen as a crime. In the episode, Romney Wordsworth, who served as a librarian, is put on trial for being obsolete, or outdated. The episode is essentially focused on two sides of the argument, Wordsworth acting as the protagonist and advocator of books, while the Chancellor is seen as the evil counterpart who holds the ultimate power in the matter. Later, the Chancellor rules that…
Fahrenheit 451 is an impeccable book written by Ray Bradbury. This novel contains a government that banned books and a tightly controlled society. The characters live under laws that influences the civilization to be ignorant and only depend on technology. Creativity and being considered different is rare in the dystopian society. Books and ideas are burned, books are burned physically, whereas knowledge burns in the mind. Fahrenheit 451 creates an image of a “perfect” culture that in the end…
The primary conflict of the novel is the character Guy Montag as he tries to act against Beatty. In spite of the fact that Montag and Beatty looked the same toward the start of the novel, they are altogether are different both psychologically and rationally due to their age contrast and the general people they meet. To begin with, they both share the same profession, and have worked in the book burning for a long period of time. Moreover, they both love to read books; it is indicated that Beatty…
Life is full of decisions, and one bad one will determine one’s fate. When one is raised not knowing right from wrong, he or she is bound to make a poor decision. In Werner Herzog’s film, Into the Abyss, released in 2011, two young teenagers make a horrible decision that affects the rest of their lives. Both of these boys, having been raised poorly, do not know better than to do something as atrocious as murder. When Michael Perry and Jason Burkett, the two teenage boys, see a nice car in…
Imagine a world where books are forbidden, everything is fast paced and firemen don’t put out fires they make them. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury published in October of 1953, there is a main character named Montag. The book is about how Montag learns to like books. The characters in the book try to either teach Montag to like books or steer him away from books. One of the characters, Clarisse teaches Montag that not everything has to be fast paced or you don’t have to follow…
In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury introduces two women who influence the life of the main character Guy Montag, a firefighter whose job dedicates to destroying books. The seventeen-year-old neighbor Clarisse McClellan is mentioned first and provides the stimulus for Montag’s new outlook on life. His wife Mildred, whose personality differs completely from Clarisse’s, portrays the second woman who impacts Montag. With their differences, Clarisse and Mildred influence Montag in opposite ways with…
Ray Bradbury definitely wrote a very good story about a possible dystopian future, but he also inclines that our current society could go down that path if we let it happen. Firemen burn books, and that's what we see with our main character, Guy Montag. He works as a fireman, a literal fireman, and burns books. But what is Ray Bradbury really trying to tell us with this book? He is trying to warn us about our society. In the society in the book, the lack of realistic information, or information…