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Burning Beatty Analysis

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Part Three: Burning Bright B) Critical Analysis: 1) Beatty thinks that fire is lovely and perpetual and its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. If a problem gets too burdensome, fire can remove it. This reveals Beatty’s desire to die because he knows a lot about literature, but he is responsible for the burning of books. Thus, he is full of contradictions and they have been a problem. This problem is too burdensome, but he cannot solve it so he seeks the help of fire to remove his problem. 2) Birds represent freedom and books have knowledge which prompts the people to think and thus, have the awareness of monitoring the government and defending their rights and freedom. When books are burned, it implies that the people’s freedom dissipates. The more books the firemen burn, the less freedom the people have since they become more foolish and fail to criticize the authority. 3) The beetle incident proves Faber’s statement that the people in power think they will run on forever, but they won 't and someday the system will fall apart by itself. Clarisse said that her uncle was jailed for driving slowly on a highway and the authority demanded him to follow the majority’s practice and drive at a high speed. In this incident, the beetle is driving at a high speed and yet, it is why …show more content…

The words he will specifically save for people suggest that Montag is optimistic about the future. The river in the excerpt refers to the river Montag has crossed. On one side of the river, the original society suppressed books and knowledge, and relied heavily on technology. The society is now destroyed and they will rebuild it in a different way. In the new society, the fruits will grow which means that books and knowledge will be prevalent again. Leaves will heal the nations, which means that the nature will become part of the new society and allow people to think instead of being constantly excited by

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Beatty who is a negative person influences and convinces everyone around that burning is good. Mean and bitter people in the world come with very similar qualities, such as negativity, big egos, are hypocrites ect. Which Captain Beatty possesses in the book Fahrenheit 451. He is someone who has read books before but describes to his men that they are evil and not good for anyone or anything. Which is the firefighters only and important job, to burn books which is consider as “helping the people”.

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n. In the book, Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, there was evidence that Beatty was persuading and terrorizing his fellow firemen and society because of the power in his hands. Although, He was educated by reading books, Beatty was not justified for hiding the truth about censorship because he kept society from thinking, used his power for evil instead for good and sent fear throughout society. He is just as guilty as Montag because he to read books. As well as, hid information that was very valid to the knowledge of the people of the society.

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The first point that needs to be addressed is the fact that the book makes people think. In the book firemen are the government censors and they burn any and all books. This makes the people in the story fear both books and opposing the government. As a result,

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Is there a pleasure to burn? Guy Montag has lived a quiet life as a fireman, burning books alongside the rest of the fire squad, and has always found his work to be pleasurable (Bradbury 3). Montag takes pride in his work, and finds it empowering, saying, “his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning;” (Bradbury 3). A chance meeting a young girl named Clarisse, and the actions of a martyr willing to die for her books, light a spark in Montag that definitely wasn’t there before. Montag tells Clarisse that he has been a fireman for ten years, and never put much thought into his job.

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Montag, the main character, is a fireman and he begins to realize that the way of life that he lives in is severely flawed and starts to retaliate against society and asks help from an old friend named Faber. Beatty, the man that goes up against Montag, is also Montag 's fire captain, later in the story Montag kills Beatty to survive. Now, Montag murdered Beatty and that is against the law, but Montag has been justified in burning Beatty, it was either Montag or Beatty, if Montag didn’t kill Beatty it seemed Beatty would kill him. Montag had also trying to protect himself and Faber, Beatty had wanted to die anyway. Montag was already in trouble, by burning Beatty he gave him a second chance to escape and run to sustain his way of life.

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Beatty, the firehouse captain, had been suspicious of Montag being in possession of literature. His dubious thoughts are found to be correct when Mildred turned Montag in. Montag is forced to go on the run, leaving the city for the countryside, where he finds other outcasted intellectuals. The city is bombed, leaving it completely destroyed and the society in ruins. The society Ray Bradbury creates in Fahrenheit 451 showcases how censorship is a threat to free thinking, society’s humanity, and human relationships through the use of imagery, symbolism and motifs.

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Moreover the fire also resembles the purging of Montag. Montag’ burning of his house and the TV signifies his rebellion and rejection of the vales of his society. Through burning his own house Montag like a phoenix destroys his old self by fire to be reborn from the ashes as a new person once again. Killing captain Beatty symbolizes the destruction of the system, because by doing so he frees himself from the influence of his society which give him the chance to think and choose freely for first time in his life. Also, another side of fire is also revealed to Montag ay the end of the novel when he meets the rebel group.

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Then he dressed in Faber’s old clothes and shoes” (139). The river is the beginning to Montag’s new life. He is being reborn into a man more like Faber, and the river is stripping him of his old self. The many instances of water being mentioned in the novel directly connect to its symbolism of life and

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Montag becomes a different person after finally wading into the river because it washes away his old life, letting him start a new one. Living without technology allows the men to think for themselves and set goals too. Granger states,“‘Every man must leave something behind when he dies’” (149). Though a simple statement, it causes Montag to regret the awful burnings and do something that he will be remembered for.

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Beatty understands the way the world works in retrospect to the events leading up to the current situation of their government. As a fireman you must know what you are doing and how it benefits your society. Beatty explains the reason that books are banned to Montag, and doing so helps us understand the most important factor in the story. You must not offend anyone whatsoever. To maintain peace you must cease from reading or writing anything that could slightly be taken out of context.

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