Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Beatty is the fire chief and everyone is feared by him. Beatty tries to stop Montag on going down the road of believing books are not a bad thing, he himself has gone down that road and does not believe it is one worth traveling. Shortly after Montag kills Beatty he realizes that he wanted to die, all this time he wanted to be a character of his own book and after he died he finally was. Beatty had wished he could forget his past life and be happy like everyone else. Captain Beatty did not feel that books provided him with enough information about life he felt as if all the pages in the book were blank. He believes that books only lead to confusion and thought, which should be avoided at all

He knows she called about his books. Captain Beatty then tells Montag again to burn all of his books, but instead he burns all of Mildred’s things. He loves the desire of burning and destroying all of her things. Captain Beatty tells Montag that he is to be arrested afterwards. All of the firemen watch as Montag’s house burns. Captain Beatty and Montag start to argue about books and their importance again. They start a physical fight. The fight escalates to Montag pointing a flame thrower at Captain Beatty. Captain Beatty goes on to taunt Montag, so Montag decides to burn Captain Beatty

Well, now I’ve done both.” When it comes to this quote Montag is referring to Beatty and how he always told him that if he had a problem that he should burn it and eventually Beatty became Montag’s problem so he decided to face it by burning him and killing him in the process. Ultimately, Montag killed Beatty because of all the events that led up to the final showdown between the two.

When an author produces a work of literature, they are greatly influenced by the world around them. Inspired by life in society, authors are able to create work that speaks to their observations and views on society and its functions. In the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury incorporated the corruption of the society in which he lived in into the dystopian society created in his book. Fahrenheit 451, a fictional book about a protagonist’s attempt to overcome a dystopian society’s corruption, was written by Ray Bradbury while living in 1950’s America. The book focuses on themes of censorship, and illustrates the effects of when a society is controlled and limited. The correlation between the story and the time it was written is

In the end Captain Beatty turns Montag into a killer. After Captain Beatty makes Montag burn his house, he grabs his ear piece from Montag and threatens to trace it back. Montag does not want this, because he had received the transmitter from his friend Professor Faber. This causes Montag to aim the flame thrower at Captain Beatty. “ Go ahead now, you second hand litterateur, pull the trigger.” He took one step toward Montag” (Bradbury 119). Beatty then pushes Montag until he cannot take it anymore and Montag finally shoots hot flames,

The tension between him and Beatty kept building and then reached a breaking point right before Montag burns down his own house and Beatty says to him “Now, Montag, you’re a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders…” (Bradbury 115). When he says this it becomes clear that Beatty is enjoying destroying Montag’s life.

Although Montag was far outnumbered and had a lot to lose, he is justified in killing Beatty. Even though Montag really never knew if Beatty knew that he had the books, or about Faber, Montag is justified in killing Beatty with the flamethrower. Throughout the story, Beatty becomes more and more against Montag. He also tries to confuse Montag with text from books. Beatty could have found out about Faber and Montag wanted to keep him safe. Because of the way Beatty in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag meets a girl who teaches him that life isn’t as great as it seems. He learns that there are books that are not just for manuals but have stories in them. He begins to hide books inside of his own home and this leads him into some

In Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, books are banned from society. The job of a fireman is to burn books and the ideas they contain. Captain Beatty is the head fireman, and leads firemen such as Guy Montag. When Beatty realizes that Montag is harboring books, he arrives at Montag’s house and tells Montag to burn down his house. Montag does so, but then kills Beatty with a flamethrower. Montag then believes that Beatty wanted to die. Like Montag, I also believe that Beatty wanted to die because he didn’t defend himself and felt guilty for seeing people get arrested for owning books when he knew he owned them too.

Beatty is a complex character, full of contradictions. He burns books however; he has an immense comprehension of poetry. Although Beatty was his friend and captain, he appears to be an enemy of Montag due to his hatred towards books. Beatty calls books “treacherous weapons”, yet he uses his own knowledge about books to manipulate Montag cruelly.

Towards the end of the passage, Montag threatens Beatty with a fire hose, prompting a lengthy dialogue from Beatty. Beatty responds to Montag’s threats with an allusion to Shakespeare, saying, “‘There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am arm’d so strong in honesty that they pass by me as an idle wind, which I respect not!’ How’s that?” Beatty’s ease and familiarity with Shakespeare confirm that Beatty has definitely read books, and that he is an intelligent man has some notion of what books have held deep within their pages. In this way, Beatty is similar to Montag, he is another book burner that is knowledgeable about literature. What separates the two is that Beatty is simply unable to diverge from societal norms, and his stubbornness takes over and refuses to admit the worth of books. This differs greatly from Montag, who is finally starting to rebel against society. In this same scene, Beatty also taunts Montag when the fire hose is pointed at him, urging Montag to, “Go ahead now, you second-hand litterateur, pull the trigger.” While this may have just been Beatty egging Montag on, later on Beatty’s lack of resistance seems to suggest that Beatty really didn’t care whether or not he died. Moments before his death, Beatty simply says, “‘Hand it over, Guy,” and then proceeds to smile as he knows he is about to be burnt. Through dialogue, Bradbury is able to reveal information about Beatty’s background and knowledge of books, as well as his

This scene displays ironic, because usually main characters do not die in a story. Another death in the book would be when Montag kills Beatty. He orders Montag to burn his own house, but he did not want to destroy his book. Montag has a fire thrower in his hands and turns it upon Beatty, after he told Montag to set it down. Montag did not follow this command and turns the fire thrower on Beatty: “And then he [Beatty] was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or unknown, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him” (113).

Although Beatty decides to reject what he learned when given the opportunity to read books, Beatty is unhappy with his life as a fireman and persuades Montag to kill him by using pathos as shown through his words and actions. Firstly, Beatty orders Montag to burn Montag’s own house, creating anger and sadness within Montag. Messing with Montag’s emotions makes it a pathos appeal. This action alone does not make Montag kill Beatty, but it does push to that goal. In addition, Beatty continues to irritate Montag by insulting him, saying “It was the act of a silly, damn snob” (Bradbury 118). Even though Montag was acting like a snob, or a stuck-up individual, when he read the “Dover Beach” poem to Mildred and her friends, Beatty calling Montag

Montag encountered a kind seventeen-year-old girl named Clarisse McClellan, who opened his eyes to the purposelessness of his life with her innocently clever questions and her odd love of people and nature. As Montag's dissatisfaction with his life increased, he began to search for a solution in a stash of books that he had stolen from his own fires and hidden inside an air-conditioning vent.

Beatty was a character made to drive Montag by pressuring him to admit he had more than one book stashed in his house by quoting other books to confuse him. In this section we learn that he has also read books which go against the law and clearly, he has read many since he quotes many different pieces of literature through memorization. The first time we see Beatty quoting a book is when he is talking to Montag in Guy’s bedroom. It states,” At least once in his career, every fireman gets an itch. What do the books say, he wonders?

Beatty uses his knowledge to attack Montag after the fireman has made the decision to join the radicals and to oppose the burning of books. Montag returns to the fire station in order to surrender a book, creating the illusion of conforming to Beatty’s expectations. Before Montag has an opportunity to speak Beatty begins to confound him with contradictory statements from