1.This quote refers to Montag’s guilty feelings about his reading books. He begins to see this as a disease of some sort, manifesting first in his hands. His hands quickly become a symbol of Montag’s rebellious, defiant and moral side. Montag’s thoughts here are similar to that of Mildred’s over dosage, as they are the result of some hidden dissatisfaction Montag rarely acknowledges. 2. This quote refers to a piece of Beatty’s speech explaining to Montag the revised history of firemen. It is interesting that Beatty’s speech has a very ironic tone. He defends the disintegration of authenticity in a passionate, almost regretful tone. He is willing to defend the “equalization” of society while still remaining educated himself, and denounces the
Montag is a fireman who is thirty years old. He has been a fireman for ten years; he takes pride in his work with the fire department. Montag’s job is to search for books and burns them because there’re illegal. Also, enjoys burning books. Montag is an unhappy, cold hearted and emptiness person; in the story Montag is described "black hair, black brows…fiery face, and…blue-steel shaved but unshaved look.
happy and free Clarisse, and during one of their conversation, he, in an almost threatening way, says, “"Well, doesn't this mean anything to you?" while tapping the numerals 451 stitched on his char-coloured sleeve (Bradbury, page 4). As soon as he mentions the numbers and shows them to Clarisse, she becomes extremely uncomfortable and changes the subject of the conversation like those numbers are alive and deadly. In fact, they are.
Fahrenheit 451 uses many symbols to describe people and objects in the story. One sentence may seem like another, but what many don’t know is that there are hidden meanings in each. The author conveys these messages through the symbols in each chapter which are the phoenix, the sieve with the sand , and most of all...fire. After Montag’s city was burned, Granger related it to the phoenix bird; he says,” ...
In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag repeats “consider the lilies of the field (Bradbury 74)” to remind himself to be subdued in his journey of discovering the meaning of books in past and present society. Montag is on a path to disclose the truth behind the forbidden books. This is a tough and challenging task, but he must be careful with how he handles this. He cannot bring light to his plan, or he will be shut down quickly and fail to make any changes. This quote he remembers from the bible is crucial for this point of the story.
This quote from George Orwell's novel 1984 ties heavily into the world and reactions of society created in the world of Fahrenheit 451. The most prevalent and literal link back to the quote is from part one of the novel, where Montag’s wife describes what has happened to Clarisse: "She's gone for good. I think she's dead. Run over by a car. Four days ago...
Imagine a world which is almost empty of love, peace, and goodness. A world whose people find it entertaining to drive over animals and humans. People who mindlessly pass day by day without a meaning of life.(122) Such this world is implemented in a dark, but beautiful book, Fahrenheit 451. Guy Montag wept deeply for Clarrise because she had, taken the “mask” from him, which enabled him to emerge from the shadows, and, by doing this, she helped shape his destiny.(9)
Chase Nicks Period: 6 4. Montag thinks that turning to books “can get (him) half out of the cave,” instead they only cause him to lose his wife, job, and home (70). At first, Montag has an assignment he is called to that involves a woman and books. When Montag arrives at the scene, the woman will not leave the house and instead dies in the fire. Montag thinks, “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in the burning house; there must be something there.
In many stories, strong words and phrases are used to gain the attention of people’s interests. For example, the story Fahrenheit 451 mentions contents of the term “Power of Words” such as provoke and inspire. Ray Bradbury uses these types of quotes to give the readers different types of emotions when reading the story. Fahrenheit 451 shows people a society in which people are being provoked and inspired by the people around them. Provocation and inspiration are two powerful words that indicate change which are mentioned in the novel Fahrenheit 451.
We, as humans, are known for having the most complex minds in the history of the universe. Emotions, expressions, words and so many other ways we connect with one another, and yet there are still other concepts unable to put into words. Fahrenheit 451 is a crafty novel written by Ray Bradbury, about the corrupted sides of a superficial “perfect society,” or a Utopia as one might describe it. The main character, Guy Montag gradually realizes that the world he is living in was not at all perfect like it was displayed. The world of Montag is filled with temporary happiness, plastic-like emotions and overpowering technology, similar to our world and how people are growing dependent on a small screen along with the dropping methods of communication.
Throughout the book Fahrenheit 451 it is evident that It is acceptable to rebel when society limits you of doing certain things that will improve or enhance your life. It is acceptable to rebel when society limits you of doing certain things that will improve or enhance your life because society could be holding you back,Rebelling could change things for the greater good,and you could gain knowledge. It is acceptable to rebel when society limits you of doing certain things that will improve or enhance your life because society could be holding you back. My first piece of evidence that shows this is,”You weren’t there, you didn’t see,” he said. ‘There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house;
"(page. 50) and continue to talk to Mildred “There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there.” (page. 51) without consciously noticing his different perspective towards fire from the first encounter with Faber before the novel. These quotes represent that he rejected the idea of being a fireman by questioning himself and the cause of the incidents occurred on that day.
“Do you ever read any of the books you burn”, Clarisse asked Montag. In the excerpt I read about the book “Fahrenheit 451” this quote made me conclude that the society in which Montag and Clarisse live in seems to be very controlling and strict. I believe this because reading books is considered a crime, and I think they are trying to make people forget about how the past was and make them follow their rules. An example of this is “His hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.” This quote is talking about how the firemen are burning books that have information about the past.
In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Montag, the main character, goes from loving his job to rethinking of his job. Montag came in mind that his job not only hurt him but also hurt society. He began to realize that he no longer enjoyed his job. Montag did not like the fact of knowing that his job was only hurting other people.
Bradbury the Prophet Written in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 was way ahead of its time in predicting the mass spread of technology and our potential to over-indulge and become addicted to electronic media in our desire for information and entertainment. Books and written words are no longer important, the only thing that interests people are news headlines and random blurbs without context. In this novel, Bradbury creates a parallel world to critique our own and to express how our society could become that of a dismal fiction book. A huge point that is presented by him is that if technology continues advancing as it is, it could easily take our interactions from one another away, make us more ignorant of the world around us than we already are, and has the potential to take matters into its own hands if we give it to much reign.
His resultant search for knowledge destroys the unquestioning ignorance he used to share with nearly everyone else, and he battles the basic beliefs of his society. Bradbury shows through the development of Montag’s character that people must have the freedom to think for themselves and to act on their ideas—to be individuals. As Montag opens his eyes