Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury: Character Analysis

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Ray Bradbury’s outlook towards society is strongly pessimistic, for Bradbury depicts a world where innocent men are declared guilty and the people of the world all posses dry personalities. Throughout the story Bradbury draws attention to many negative sides of technology, but what makes the biggest impact is when Montag kills a man and then runs far into the night and out of the city. The city's government knows Montag has escaped, so they target an innocent man walking the streets to ensure the people feel safe and continue to support the absurd regulations, building suspense while making a game of a human's life. Throughout the book Bradbury builds up Montag's hate for Berry, the Captain of the firefighters, using threats and quotes in direct