Guy Montag's Transformation In Fahrenheit 451

Imagine living in a society where life is routine and mundane, books are banned, and a desire for knowledge is unaccepted. Here authority is not to be questioned. What would you do? In Ray Bradbury’s book, Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist, Guy Montag, is a dedicated man who takes extreme pride in his job as fireman, igniting fires and burning books. However, after meeting an outgoing, 17 year old girl, he begins to change. Guy Montag progresses along with the story. He begins to question both the government, as well as society, with its harsh and rigid ways.

These three little words were all it took for Clarisse McClellan, an innocent, curious girl, to make the world of Guy Montag crumble. As Montag reaches his home, he becomes a bit unsure of his happiness, “Of course I'm happy. What does she think? I'm not?”(8). This leaves us to believe that Clarisse has in fact influenced Guy Montag, not just this, but later we start to see his personality changing. Was his whole life a lie? Montag starts to question his being, “... was it always like this?”(31). From all this evidence, we can conclude that Montag is changing, it's almost as if he's becoming a whole new person. Montag’s realizing that he doesn't want to be in his world and society as it is now, fake and

You never stop to think what I’ve ask you.)” Montag throws back at her and says that “(You’re an odd one,)” because she thinks too much. Clarisse and Montag continued to talk and walk when Clarisse asks, “(Is it true that long ago firemen put out fires instead of going to start them?)” Montag tells her no, that houses have always been fireproof. “(Strange. Clarisse says, I heard that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.)” After their first walk together, Montag’s perspective changed. He could feel his smile slide away, melt, fold over, and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out. Montag told himself that he was not happy. He now defined himself as not being happy. Montag wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off with it across the lawn and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back. The same night after Montag and Clarisse walked together, Mildred had to have her stomach pumped because of her unsuccessful attempt at suicide. At

In Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman whose job is to burn down houses that carry books because it is illegal in the area he lives in. He is married to Mildred, a distant character, who avoids coming face to face with her life and instead develops an obsession for television. Montag starts to think differently and wonders why he should burn the books, why it is illegal to read the books, and how he did not notice a change in society until after he talks to Clarisse.

Guy Montag is a fireman who lives in a futuristic American society. Montag works under the command of Captain Beatty, who is a head fire chief. In his world the firemen start the fires to burn books, which have been banned. Reading is forbidden and the society is all about parlor walls. Everybody is so caught up in the parlor walls, including Montag’s wife, Mildred. One day Montag meets a strange young lady named Clarisse who asks a very strange question, “Are you happy?” (Bradbury 10). Clarisse causes Montag to rethink burning books and eventually he starts to learn more about how the society was before books were banned from professor Faber, an old friend. Captain Beatty, in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is the person who causes

Clarisse McClellan was the person who ultimately changes Montag’s world view. He finds many flaws in the society after he starts to think differently. He no longer respects his career after he witnesses a woman sacrifice herself for knowledge by setting herself and her possessions on fire. After Montag starts to pay more attention to his life, he realizes that the very things that were forbidden in his society were what was needed for personal relationships. Realizing that the content in books was the result of real men with thought and emotion, made him see how disconnected individuals are from one another in his society. Families and relationships seems automated. Even married couples have imperceptible relationships with no apparent beginning or purpose. Montag, himself, becomes melancholy after realizing that his relationship with his own wife is not as it seems. He becomes disillusioned with his job when he realizes that he is part of the government plan to withhold truth and knowledge. Eventually his desire to uncover the hidden truths of society changes Montag. As he joins the resistance group known as “book covers,” Montag transforms from a compliant, proper citizen to a truth seeker on the

First let me tell everyone a little about Fahrenheit 451. Guy Montag is a firefighter whose

Montag discovers new things after meeting Clarisse. Things like the fact that fire fighters used to actually fight fires. He also comes to discover that he doesn't really love his wife. As well as he's not entirely happy. Clarisse's attitude and outlook let's him discover that his view of life is grim and jaded. He begins to realize that things aren’t how he wants them to be, that he doesn't really know much about history - or the truth of it, he becomes curious and attempts to find real happiness.

The protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, fireman Guy Montag, meets his seventeen-year-old neighbor Clarisse McClellan one summer evening after work, and this meeting begins Montag’s transformation of thought. The novel is set in the future, and a new reality in this time period is that firemen don’t extinguish fires but instead burn books. In the past, Montag has enjoyed his job, but upon meeting Clarisse, he begins to wonder why books are not allowed in current society, and that leads to his later actions. Clarisse is the catalyst: she influences Montag’s thinking and actions because she herself thinks and lives differently than others. While most people in the city spend their time rushing through life distracted by jet cars, ‘parlor walls,’

In this book Guy Montag is one of the fireman that goes into peoples and burns the books. He thought that he was happy and that he had a great life. Then he meets this girl named Clarissa Mclellan, she lived down the street from him. She would meet him and walk with him on his way to work and she would ask him questions that made his start to question his life. She was the one that made him open his eyes and see that he was not truly happy like he thought he was. She made his question his whole life, job, and the future. Her family was different than other families in the society. They knew how to be happy and how life could be. Over time Montag started to enjoy Clarissa and her talks but then one day she died and that’s when things started

Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is a novel about a dystopian society in which book burning is legal so no citizens gain any knowledge in that society. Guy Montag is a fireman who never questions his decision to burn books until he cheats on his wife with a seventeen year old girl. Through his change of heart, Montag realizes that knowledge is power and book burning is a form of oppression. The following will describe his transformation by describing how Montag thinks and feels before the change of heart; what causes his change of heart; and how he thinks and feels and behaves after the change of heart.

A dystopian society is defined as an imaginary society that is as dehumanizing and unpleasant as possible; the government often suppresses basic human rights in order to maintain total control over the population. Montag, the protagonist of the novel “Fahrenheit 451”, by Ray Bradbury, is facing many different challenges due to the way society has been altered in his time. The conflict in Fahrenheit 451 is supported by the minor character Mr. Faber, and contributes to the major conflict of man versus man, experienced by the protagonist Guy Montag; which ultimately leads to the development of the major theme knowledge versus power.

Guy Montag, a fireman in the book Fahrenheit 451, undergoes a transformation throughout the book through his character and personality. He changes from being a mindless individual that just does his job each day, to be a man that now has an enlightened and inquisitive state of mind. At the beginning of the book, Guy Montag is just a simple fireman. He goes to work every day and comes home every night to his wife.

Within the beginning of this novel, Montag was a dedicated worker, one who takes pride in his job. One day as he is walking home from work, he meets a girl named Clarisse McClellan. A loner one would call her, she is a reader, which is puts Montag in a awkward place because the books she reads, he has to burn, but she asks him, "Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" (8). He chuckles, only to find that she is not laughing along with him, the question she asked was with all honesty. This kind of changes his point of view on certain things or things he wants to know.

The novel Fahrenheit 451 (published 1951) by Ray Bradbury illustrates a dark future where people are glued to their television screens and firemen burn houses instead of saving them, just because they contain books. One of these firemen is Guy Montag. Although he starts as a mostly normal citizen who is content with his job and his life, by the end of the novel Montag has run away from the city and has joined a group that praises and memorises books should they be needed in the future. Throughout the novel, Montag is influenced by his wife Mildred’s attempted suicide, Clarisse McClellan, Faber, and the book-keepers on the edge of society. These all compound to leave a Montag that is greatly different from the one at the beginning of the book.