In Ray Bradbury’s futuristic novel Fahrenheit 451, Montag, the main character is influenced by one person who changes his life completely. Clarisse McClellan, Montag’s new next-door neighbor, introduces Montag into an alternate world where it was believed that firemen once saved houses from burning instead of starting fires. Clarisse is an odd seventeen-year-old with some very peculiar thoughts about society. She is not the only odd person in her family, her whole family, mom, dad, and uncle are all very odd. They stay up at night talking while all the other families are sleeping. Clarisse, the beautiful girl, introduces Montag to the world’s hidden beauty and meaning, through her innocent self and her curious nature. Through a couple of conversations …show more content…
But he never realized that he was not happy until Clarisse asked him if he was happy. Clarisse not only shows him into another reality that could exist, but that shows him the reality that had existed and what should exist. Like reading books should be legal and so should stay up late at night talking or watching TV as a family. Clarisse shows and gives Montag the ability to interpret his own world. Once Montag starts to interpret the world he lives, he begins to take little steps toward books and has a couple of sudden urges of wanting to rescue the book. He slowly starts to realize that a man is behind every book and has put hard work behind it. By destroying a book, Montag is destroying history created by another man, especially when he put so much work into the book. Montag notices that many people care for their television families instead of caring for their actual families, like Montag’s wife or even Mrs. (). Montag even notices that all the firemen look similar, like dark-hair and unshaven, mirror images of Montag. She influences Montag so much that Montag ends up becoming a human being who can think, feel, and analyze from the automan he used to
The character Clarisse in the novel Fahrenheit 451 had a very important role towards Montag’s gradual rebellion. She first appears in the novel late at night, simply taking a stroll. This in and of itself is strange, and once Montag begins to talk with her he realizes just how eccentric she is. In our society, she would not be perceived as bizarre, but in Montag’s culture just thinking, exploring, and generally being curious is a crime. Although meeting Clarisse jump started Montag’s journey, he may have been collecting books and having similar thoughts far before. She makes him think introspectively, and he begins to question his association to the firemen. Clarisse even unknowingly unearths the fact that Montag isn’t in love with his wife(19).
Describe Clarisse’s effect on Montag and her function in the novel. How and why does she change him? Why does she vanish from the novel? Clarisse is an enlightened character that walked with Montag at the beginning of Fahrenheit 451. She was described as an outgoing character that was different from the rest. Clarisse made a huge impact on Montag by asking what most would think a simple question, “Are you happy?” Clarisse was only making Montag think differently but there had to be a spark, a driving force that would cause Montag to take action. This driving force was Clarisse’s death. This is when everything snapped together in Montag’s head, “It's not just the woman that died," said Montag. "Last night I thought about all the kerosene
The Change Of Montag Going against society can have a positive or negative impact on your life. This theme is seen in Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, which is a science fiction novel that takes place in an unnamed American city in 2053. In this novel, Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books for a living. He experiences changes that affects what he thinks about his job and who he is as a person. In this text he meets a girl clarisse who changes what he thinks about himself.
Guy Montag is a fireman who believes he is content with his occupation and life in an oppressive futuristic American society portrayed in the novel Fahrenheit 451. In Montag's society, firemen start fires instead of putting them out, burning books and belongings of book owners. In this futuristic society people don't read books, enjoy nature, think independently or have meaningful conversations. Instead, they drive very fast, watch excessive television, and waste unnecessary time on listening to radio. However, his displeasure, undisclosed to even himself, becomes apparent after meeting Clarisse McClellan, the new neighbor and 17 year old girl, who engages in peculiar acts. Through her naive and deep questions combined with her strange affection for people and nature opens Guy Montag's to the true reality of his life.
In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character is Montag a firefighter. In the novel, Montag isn’t just an ordinary firefighter, in this society they cause fires against any household that contains books because it's against the law to read or contain one. This has been Montag’s job for over 25 years, and he has never doubted or questioned his job to why he burns books. As Montag was heading home after a long day of work he comes across a curious, ordinary girl, Clarisse. At this point Montag realizes his surroundings and starts to questioning his life. Overall, Clarisse changed Montag’s ideas about his life which results for him to
In the book, “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, Clarisse is a 17 year old girl who likes to ponder on her thoughts and share ideas with people around her. Throughout the book Clarisse doesn’t change much but she changes Montag’s life drastically. She always shares her what's on her mind without worrying about other people’s opinions. Clarisse is very interested in the past and how times have changed, she mentions about how firemen “used put fires out instead of going to start them,” and how “a long time ago houses used burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames,”(pg 8). Overtime, Clarisse starts noticing the little things in life and reflects on them most of her days, she notices the smell of old leaves how they smell “like
Ray Bradbury’s book, Fahrenheit 451 , would not be the same without the character Clarisse. Clarisse is one of the most vital protagonists in the story, and is one of the most fascinating as well. There are many aspects in this character including, physical appearance, actions, and thoughts. These four elements are what made Clarisse who she was as a person, in the insane era in which she had to live in.
One of the principal characteristics of a dystopian novel is the implementation of undesirable and horrifying conditions to its setting, and Fahrenheit 451’s society certainly has those conditions. These conditions are first shown when Clarisse describes to Montag what schools is like. She describes how they have “An hour of of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don’t; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film teacher” (29). Clarisse shows that the children in this society are not taught to be critical thinkers; they do not have any real
The text starts off with rather stirring imagery, the imagery of books being set ablaze by the protagonist, Guy Montag. As a member of a modern society where there is always a plethora of books available and therefore, a plethora of knowledge at one's fingertips it bothersome that one would want of rid the world of that commodity. Bradbury starts off his work by painting the vivid beginnings of a tale of a dystopian culture.
When he came home from this first unplanned meeting he found his wife laying on her bed, unconscious, because of she overdosed on sleeping pills. But, emergency responders come to their house and performed an operation to bring Montag’s wife, Mildred back to perfect health. They get her back to perfect health by pumping new blood into her system, but this new blood makes Mildred forget everything that happened the night before. After this event he has more and more meetings with Clarisse and she starts to influence his personality by making him more and more dissatisfied with how society is run. Clarisse makes him realize that books are not a real problem in society and the government portrays this problem for a reason unknown by Montag. This belief becomes so influenced upon him by Clarisse that he even starts stealing books from houses he helps burn down. Clarisse suddenly disappears making the reader infer she died. This combined with his very little knowledge and curiosity of books caused him to have psychological illnesses that refrained him from going to work and let him stay home and read the books that have been banned for the entirety of his life. But, Montag’s change of behavior and his constant missing of work causes his boss, captain beatty, to become
In the novel of Fahrenheit 451 it describes the life of the protagonist, Guy Montag a“fireman” that burns downs houses containing books, for the “good” of the public. Guy Montagwas living a normal life as a firefighter and didn’t question anything he was told, he followed therules and procedures. Until he met Clarisse McClellan, a 17 year old girl full creativity and wascapable to think outside of society laws. She is an important character because she shows Guythe evil and insanity of their society. This makes Guy think of the books they have burned andwonder what information they contained, even though owning or reading books is against thelaw.The author, Ray Bradbury, was greatly influenced by occurring events happening aroundthe world. It took place during the McCarthy Era, when the threat of book burning
In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag, the main character, is a normal man living a life as a Firemen. He thinks he loves the job, but there is one difference between the firemen today and the firemen in the book that makes him question his happiness. The firemen in the book create fires to burn books instead of a traditional firemen role, to put out fires. Montag begins to realize the something is amiss when Clarisse makes him understand that he is not truly happy and he tries to find the underlying root of his unhappiness. While still conforming on the outside, Montag secretly changes his views on the mindless
After Clarisse shatters Montag’s perception of his own reality, his view of the world begins to rapidly change. In a nutshell, Clarisse serves as the catalyst for Montag’s painful, but necessary self-examination of his character and beliefs. Clarisse’s words begin Montag’s journey for the discovery of freedom, where he fights against the constraints of the status quo and finds himself closer to happiness. This proves that free-thinking, a constituent of innovation and knowledge, is essential to one’s personal happiness. This event sparks Montag’s curiosity, but as the book progresses, his interest in knowledge only continues to grow. Later in the novel, Montag, and his fellow firemen are dispatched to burn books found at a woman’s house. The men do their usual work of spraying the building with flammable kerosene, but as they attempt to take the woman outside to prevent her from being injured, she struggles against them. She screams that she would rather stay with her books, whether destroyed by the flames or not. The firemen give up quickly and leave the woman in her house to burn alive with her literature. This decision destroys Montag’s conscience. He realizes that the ignorance he supports is dangerous, and that books, which support
Guy Montag is a fireman who is greatly influenced in Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451. The job of a fireman in this futuristic society is to burn down houses with books in them. Montag has always enjoyed his job, that is until Clarisse McClellan comes along. Clarisse is seventeen and crazy. At least, this is what her uncle, whom she gets many of her ideas about the world from, describes her as. Clarisse and Montag befriend each other quickly, and Clarisse's impact on Montag is enormous. Clarisse comes into Montag's life, and immediately begins to question his relationship with his wife, his career, and his happiness. Also, Clarisse shows Montag how to appreciate the simple things in life. She teaches him to care about other people and
Clarisse begins to have Montag question his lifestyle and other aspect about his life in general Montag realizes the books he burns every single day are the missing part of this unhappy world .Guy Montag, started to struggles to be happy in his daily life. He then notices that the flaws in society serves as a damage to his lifestyle. He rebel against the government by stealing the book that he supposed to burn it. He started to finds real happiness from books that he steal, rather than getting impress by the artificial happiness from television entertainment.However, after meeting a young and unusual woman name Clarisse. Montag life changed