Transformation In Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

Montag's desire to acquire knowledge through books is dealt with by the rulers is that Montag’s boss, Beatty, says it was normal for a fireman to go through these phases of fascination of what books have to offer. Beatty tells Montag,” What traitors books can be! You think they’re backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.” But, Beatty is missing the point on how valuable books can be. So Beatty tells Montag to read through all of the books Montag has stashed to see if the books contain anything worthwhile, then the next day turn them in to be burned.

Ray Bradbury wrote his novel, Fahrenheit 451, during the Cold War. Although he initially wanted to warn people about the danger that technology can greatly affect a society and community for the worst, Bradbury 's novel was interpreted as commentary for censorship at the time he was writing the novel. His use of many examples of reality was thought to emphasize this point. Even so, the main character of the novel is an example of a drastic dynamic character. A dynamic character usually undergoes a transformation in relation to events of the plot. Ray Bradbury’s dynamic character in Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag, undergoes a transformation throughout the novel that is influenced by his interactions with other characters and his feelings of separation from society as he explores himself through reflection in books.

No apparent conflict with Montag and his cultural upbringing was introduced in the opening of the novel. Montag lives in a futuristic society so advanced that all houses are fireproof and house fires are not an issue. Montag laughed as his inquisitive neighbor, Clarisse, began telling him that she once heard that a long time ago "they needed fireman to stop the flames" (6). The reader knows it to be true that firefighters did, in fact, stop fires. Along the line of advancement in society, firefighters were in need of a new purpose, so they were given what was seen as one of the highest honors. They were to protect their society from nihilism and free-thinking; to burn all books, manuscripts and written information. Not knowing what a book is or the reason anyone would value one, gave the protagonist the illusion that he was only doing what was best for his society. In chapter 1 Bradbury announces that "It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed"(1). Towards the beginning of the novel Montag favored his job as a firefighter above all else; he loved to burn things. Books and their

Montag is now at the point where his views are being tested and new beliefs of life are being created. “Montag had done nothing. His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief” (35). Here Montag sees a plethora of books inside of Mrs. Blake’s house and seemingly of its own accord Montag’s hand takes a book. He has now broken a rule that everyone in Montag’s society knows, never to take or read books. Mrs. Blakes, instead of coming with the firemen out of the house decides to burn with the books. This confuses Montag and piques his curiosity to figure out what inside the book could drive someone to die with

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Guy Montag,experiences a personal journey of loss, love, and hope. He changes from a ruthless and fierce fireman who burns books because it his job and he is dedicated to someone who loves and admires books and wants to learn from them. He would not have made it on this journey if it were not for the encounters he had with other people. Some of these encounters were positive, some negative, but all helped Guy become a stronger person. These encounters influenced and shaped Guy Montag’s thoughts and decisions.

Guy Montag, in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, exhibits great change through his actions, thoughts, and choices that completely shifts his views of the world around him, as he transitions from an enforcer of the tyrant, censoring government, to an outlaw, a fugitive trying to break the tight-knit conformist view of society. Through this change, he begins to question everything he once believed in: his job, his lifestyle, and even his own wife.

Despite the firemen’s efforts to force books into irrelevancy, the opposite effect happened; books became even more valuable, to the point of risking oneself’s life to not save the books, but to die with them. Bradbury’s use of books represent two contradictory significances: damnation and salvation. On Montag’s first mission in the novel, he confronts a woman that continues to confuse Montag even further than he already was about to truth of a roles of the firemen, and the value of books: “She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall, as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head” (cite). It is heavily implied in the novel that Montag has never felt the emotion of passion. Witnessing a scene such as this, Montag is in disbelief at the thought of a person sacrificing their life for worthless and blasphemous things such as a books. This is essentially the turning point in Montag’s mentality, for it is also implied that the old woman’s death is the first that Montag ever witnessed in his ten years of being a fireman. For his entire life, Montag had been taught to be turned away from books, and that the possession of books leads to death. This sacrificial act towards books is Montag’s first exposure to the fiery passion of martyrdom, and it confuses him. During his conversation with Millie, he tells her that “[people] need to be really bothered once in

Montag started to question his duty of book burning and the structure of his society. He starts to read the very books that he is meant to destroy.

Have you ever wanted to change one little thing about the world ? Ray bradbury “Fahrenheit 451” is dystopian. Dystopia is the opposite of perfect. In the novel , the society is brainwashed by the government. he society is not able to express their feelings because they don’t know how,they can’t read books because if they get caught reading , all the books they have stashed away in their homes will be burnt or sometimes they burn the whole house down. Guy Montag meets a very unique character in the beginning of the book named Clarisse. Clarisse is a unique character because she takes walks around the neighborhood, looks at the everything, and she is very interested in everyone’s personality. Clarisse opens Guy Montag’s eyes by telling him how the society used to be; the firefighter used to stop the fire, not make it. The main character Guy Montag plays many roles as a firefighter, husband,and a lover of books as described by bradbury through the use of imagery and simile.

The beginning pages of the novel describe Montag’s role in burning down a house full of books and the joy that he experiences when he sees fire. As he walks home from his day of work, he is, “Whistling, he let the escalator waft him into the still night air. He walked toward the corner, thinking little at all about nothing in particular” (Bradbury 2). This quote shows how Montag is going through the motions of his life without really thinking about his actions. Additionally, this demonstrates that Montag has no awareness of the consequences of burning books.

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction novel, that shows a society where citizens are narrow minded and cannot think for themselves. In this society, firemen start fires, instead of putting them out. The story follows the protagonist’s journey, as he develops and comes out of conformity. As the novel progresses, there is a dynamic change in Montag’s character, which mirrors his changing perception of fire. There is an evident change shown when Montag’s thrive and passion changes, when he starts to question everything, and when he rebels against the established system.

Montag was a fireman that burned books for the firehouse where he has been working. Montag loved burning books in the begging of the novel, but now at the end of the novel he doesn’t like burning the books anymore because he actually enjoys reading them.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag was a citizen of a dystopian world where books were banned because they promoted creativity and free thinking. Montag loved his job as a fireman; which was burning books. After meeting his neighbor Clarisse, who asks him if he was happy; Montag starts to question if he truly is happy. Montag later on, starts to think about the books and houses he burned and starts to feel sick and hate his job as a fireman. At the end of the novel Montag realizes he does not want to live in a society where you can't be a freethinker and learn from new ideas.

At the beginning of the book, Montag makes a friendship with his seventeen year old neighbor, Clarisse. Soon, he realizes he is unhappy and no longer loves her. He also begins to question the ways of the world. For example, he wonders why books are aware to be so dangerous and why some people are so loyal to them. Montag lost his mind, job, and family. He also finds himself running away from everything he knows. Even when Montag meets Clarisse, Montag wasn’t a normal guy. Through most of the book Montag lacks knowledge and believes what he hear.

Montag in the beginning of the book is totally controlled by the system and lets the government control him. His setting made him a pawn for the government and made him burn books. Without this setting, Montag would have no reason to burn books. Later in the book Montag rebels and starts questioning authority and the