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Fahrenheit 451 Captain Beatty Character Analysis

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Nearly every story has a protagonist needs an antagonist or some sort of evil to fight and that's the same for this story. Captain Beatty, a ruthless antagonist, and leader of the fire company that burns countless lives along with the books. Beatty believes everyone should live life in this world through instant pleasure instead of going through any form of pain. Beatty wants all the books he finds to be burned and they shouldn't be read. However, he may have enjoyed reading at one point because he has a vast knowledge of literature as he's proven to Montag and the readers by quoting many different books in his speeches. During one of the speeches, he gives to Montag about why books are banned he states that "Colored people don't like Little
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