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Many would rather sit back and go with the government’s rules, than go against the government. Going against the government takes lots of time and dedication and also can be misfortunate to the one who goes against the government. Going against the government can result in torture or even death for those revolting. People who tend to go against the government go against it because of their beliefs. Most who rebel believe that what the government is doing is wrong. Even though going against the government can be risky, people will fight for what is right to change society. Equality 7-2521, the protagonist of Anthem by Ayn Rand struggles through a journey to find himself in a collectivist government. As he tries to find himself, he finds a secret …show more content…

Faber also explains that hopefully in the future measures would not be taken as harshly towards books and learning as before. Montag agrees with Faber because he takes a stand against the Firefighters a bit further in the novel. Montag faces a grave decision to convict every fight fighter of treason by planting book in their firehouse so every fire house is burned, or go with the society. Montag rather face the firefighters and his society, causing ever firefighter to be convicted of treason just to bring books back into society. Equality 7-2125 and Montag are both willing to fight for bringing knowledge to their society by breaking the rules. If they didn’t break the rules their society’s would have continued their old ways. Equality 7-2125 and Montag face against the Moral rules of their …show more content…

Since he has a connection with her, he feels as though the Place of Mating would take her away from him. He believes he should have the right to share this sexual act with her, and not a stranger. Later in the book they run away together, taking her away from this act. “Still, without reason, as we stood there by the hedge, we felt our lips drawn tight with hatred, a sudden hatred for all our brother men” (45). Even here, Equality 7-21-25 and his lover shows his hatred for the men of his society due to this immoral act. Montag on the other hand faces against a moral decision of his society as well. In Fahrenheit 451, while on the job Montag witnesses a woman burn herself alive with her books. Montag felt like this was morally wrong of the firemen to burn a woman with her books, because she believed books should be

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Finally, Mildred and Clarisse impact Montag differently throughout Fahrenheit 451 as he starts changing his way of thinking. For example, Clarisse is the first person that makes Montag think by himself. She asks Montag about his job and being a fireman; asking if “it [is] true that long ago firemen put out fires instead of going to start them?’” (8). After this moment, Montag starts to think more and more about the history of fireman and everything about his job as a fireman.

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Throughout the course of Fahrenheit 451, Montag has become more introverted towards his wife Mildred and no longer feels the pride that he used to in his job has a fireman. Montag even says to his wife “Mildred, how would you feel if, well, maybe, I quit my job for a while?” (Bradbury 54). Montag is unhappy with his job and does not want to return to work, because he had not only witnessed a woman burn to death on her stack of books, but he stole a book and was keeping it under his

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Quotation: “Last night I thought about all that kerosene I’ve used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper.

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(MIP-1): In Ray Bradbury’s, Fahrenheit 451, Montag starts out as a flawed person who agrees with his society. (SIP-A): Montag is a person who agrees with his society. (STEWE-1): Montag enjoys his job as a fireman in his society, “It was a pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (1). He is fond of the smell of kerosene and enjoys burning books and houses.

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In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Montag, the protagonist and book burner, battles between the light and dark sides of society, first with Beatty, his boss, and the government and then with Clarisse, a neighbor girl and Faber, an English professor. Montag is stuck in the dark burning books and is ignorant to the world around him. He moves towards greater awareness when he meets Clarisse and is awakened to the wonders of deep thought and books. Finally, he risks his life by trying to save the books.

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In this part of the book, all of the firemen including Montag received a call to burn a house with the books in there. Here became the turning point for Montag as he saw the woman, who already had made her decision to die rather than live in a world of oppression and restricted freedom of thought which books symbolize in this part, burns with the illegal books in the burning house, refusing to go out without the assurance of the safety of the books. We can suppose that his perception is gradually changing through the phrase showing that Montag felt a huge guilt over this, unlike the other firemen or Beatty. Furthermore, during the conversation with his wife, Mildred, Montag says, “We burn a thousand books. We burnt a woman.

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(STEWE-2) Besides asking questions about society’s relationships, Montag questions further and starts asking about society’s rules on burning books after he experiences a woman burn with her books. He says to Mildred, “'There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there.'" (Bradbury 48). Montag, before, had blindly followed and enforced society’s rules about burning books.

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Anthem is a dystopian novel by Ayn Rand, set in a society where individualism is banned and people are stripped of their personal freedoms. The protagonist, Equality 7-2521, struggles to reconcile his own desire for freedom with the restrictions placed upon him by his society. Throughout the novel, Rand uses powerful quotes to highlight the importance of individualism and the dangers of collectivism. One of the most striking quotes from the novel is "I am.

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Even though Montag appears to accept society,he has some experiences that make him think about his role and life in his own society.(BS-3) By the end of the book Montag realizes that books have very valuable information, and that being a fireman is wrong and that his society was very damaged. (TS) Although Montag initially accepts society and his role as a fireman, he is eventually driven by his thirst for knowledge to reject this society and strive to change it. (MIP-1) Initially, Montag believes

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As 20th century novelist Ray Bradbury examines individual identity in his science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury transforms Faber from coward to courageous through the character Montag in order to prove man's ability to change. After Montag takes the book he stole to Faber, Faber reminisces life from a long time back when things were changing for the worst stating that he is an, ”innocent who could have spoken up” (Bradbury 78). Faber becomes too frightened of the government, causing him to not speak up and become guilty of cowardice. To think for oneself in this world is wrong and frowned upon.

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Fahrenheit 451 Do books really harm the world or does the government dislike the idea of society turning knowledge into power? Montag was a heroic character, he did what he thought was best, despite what the laws said. Montag went against the law and sought knowledge. Despite his flaws, Montag can be considered a heroic figure.

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It’s an obvious difference between taking pride in oneself and taking another's life, but where does humanity draw the line between wrong and right. In the dystopian world of Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, none of these problems are existent due to lack of individuality. This makes Equality 7-2521’s need to be an individual seem all the more drastic, no matter how innocent it may seem to readers. Equality’s need to be his own person and motivation to follow his childhood dream of being a

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Victory Over Collectivism “I”, one of the only one-letter words in the English language. Yet its power and meaning do not match its quantitative value. In the collectivist dictatorship found the in the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand, this word has disappeared and consequently, society has fallen into a dark age, all because of the loss of a single-lettered word. However, the hero of this time, Equality 7-2521, breaks down the barrier of the collectivist society and allows him to make advances that show him the power of the word “I” and the idea of individualism in government and in society. Although the word “I” has vanished from society, Equality is able to free himself from the collectivist government through the use of science and free thought,

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Ayn Rand’s Anthem depicts a collectivist society where no man is allowed to be an individual. Due to this society making the people believe that there is no “I” but only a “we” the people of the community blindly believe what the higher power tells them. The people in the society of Anthem live with jobs that the head of the government give them and emotion is pushed to the side, all leading to Equality questioning and eventually breaking the law. Equality is a symbol of identity within Anthem who rebels against the system secretly. The ideals and rules of a collectivist society represented in Anthem by Ayn Rand show that collectivism is not an efficient way to create peace and order in a society.

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The critical flaw in the collective state that Equality capitalizes on to escape lies within its very foundation. Anthem best exemplifies this flaw through Equality’s escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention, as he describes “It was easy to escape the Palace of Corrective Detention. The locks are old on the doors and there are no guards about. There is no reason to have guards, for men have never defied the Councils so far as to escape from whatever place they were ordered to be” (66-67). The Council believes the fallacies it espouses, making it easy for Equality to escape.

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