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Fahrenheit 451 Montag Vs Society

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(AGG) If there is ever a society that has big problems, will someone ever speak out against it to make a better life? (BS-1): Montag is an average fireman in society, who fully supports the world he lives in. Montag, the average person in his society, is a fireman who will always back up his community. (BS-2): Montag comes face to face with regular people in society who make him mad at and question his society. (BS-3) After a rash decision and a critical event, Montag is now a full antihero. (TS) Montag is driven by the way he sees people act in society which leads him to question things and ultimately leads him to become the antihero. (MIP-1): Montag is an average fireman in society, who fully supports the world he lives in. (SIP-A): Montag belongs in society by saying, and doing …show more content…

(STEWE-1): After the experience, Montag returns home and while he is in bed sick he tells his wife that ”We burned an old women with her books”(47). This experience has a lasting effect on him as it would on everyone else who, ”said nothing on their way back to the firehouse. No-body looked at anyone else. They did not even smoke their pipes”(37). This important event makes everyone sad and depressed on the way back to the firehouse as they rethink what they had just witnessed even though this has happened before. (STEWE-2): Later, while talking to his wife about the prior events he thinks about a big decision and asks her, “How would it be if, well, maybe I quit my job awhile?”(48). This event has a big impact on Montag as he is on the verge of making a rash decision and almost quits his job. This point is a major point that pushes him along the path of the antihero as he starts to doubt if his society has the right intentions and if someone is willing to sacrifice their life for these books. (SIP-B): Montag realizes he is not happy after he spends some time thinking

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At the outset, Montag was consumed by the darkness. He was a fireman who started fires instead of dousing them. Asked how long he has done so. He replies, “since I was twenty, 10 years ago.” (5) All the time he was, burning book after book, not knowing the full extent of his actions; he was totally unaware of all the knowledge being destroyed at his hand.

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(AGG) People have rebelled against their society many times because they do not agree with it, such as Martain Luther King Jr; he rebelled against his society in a non-harmful way because he did not agree with how it worked. (BS-1) Before Montag was not guided he agreed and worked alongside his society because of he was the type of person to want to be the ideal person of the society. (BS-2) The things Montag sees and goes through causes him to think about what the society is doing and whether what they are doing is wrong or not.

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By fleeing and eventually retaliating, Montag completes the final phase of the anti-hero role. (TS) In the book Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is driven to be an anti-hero by the interactions he has with people. (MIP-1): Montag starts off as a flawed individual who believes that there is nothing amiss with his society. (SIP-A): He enforces the laws of the society by being a fireman and revels in his

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Anyone could say that if Montag had conformed he would have stayed on the side of “good;” however, there is no true “good” side there is uniqueness and being individuality which is considered to be “good” to most people in the society in which people live. Conformity and individuality in this book were hard to see due to the fact that Montag’s society wanted everything to be perfect in a world that was not. One should always be themselves even if society tells them to be something different. Be a unique individual not something, or someone, someone else wants you to

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In conclusion, throughout the entire novel, Montag continuously changes. He goes from loving his job, to rethink his job. In the end, he realizes that his job not only hurts him, but it hurts other people. He refuses to burn houses for the rest of the novel. He finally realizes that it is not good to burn other humans and their houses and

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(MIP-2) From certain experiences, Montag comes to realize that he’s not actually happy with his life because he discovers that it lacks genuine, valuable, or humane relationships, eventually driving him to find the truth about his society by making him think about and question it. (SIP-A) Montag realizes from his experiences with Clarisse that his relationships in his life lack genuity, value, or humanity. (STEWE-1)

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“It was a pleasure to burn,” therefore, not only did the firemen start fires instead of putting them out, but they enjoyed doing so. This proves that the society was thinking in a twisted way and was not functioning normally. Montag, after watching the old woman who decided to burn with her book instead of saving herself, decided there must be something special in these books if the government is hiring people to burn them. Next, Montag steals a book to inquire what it is that the government is banning people from reading. Realizing that no one in their society is really satisfied and happy with their lives, Montag’s curiosity grows until he sees the old woman who chooses to burn with her books rather than leave, Guy realizes that he needs to know what was so special about the books that people are willing to die for them.

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His choices throughout the novel eventually lead him to a situation where he is publicly humiliated for hiding books and is then forced to go on the run. Through Montag's decision to take the books for himself and his flirtation with the ideas in them, he is directly responsible for his situation. According to Candace Lately, "[Montag] makes several conscious choices on his journey towards accepting the illegal collection of books and ultimately turning against the government" (25). It is because of these decisions that Montag is forced to become an exile and flee from the oppressive regime he helped

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Guy Montag has a moral dilemma whether to rebel against the government or comply with the law. The law has illegalized books, whether it is owning or reading them. Montag’s responsibilities of being a firefighter ironically is to ignite fires rather than put them out. Guy Montag lives in a very uniform society where everyone acts the same, dresses the same, and even thinks the same. Therefore, it is uncanny to be different and unique.

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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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Montag rebels against everything he knows to gain knowledge that he is not able to gain by the law. Montag also has ideas on how to overthrow the firemen. The largest act of Montag being an anti hero is killing his boss to stop the burning of books. He switched the safety catch on the flamethrower. Bradbury states, “.”Beatty glanced instantly at Montag's fingers and his eyes widened the faintest bit.”

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One example on why Montag is an anti- hero is because he soon starts to realize that it’s time to change his society, but when his anger comes in play he realizes that he the best changes he made aren’t the best changes(page 71 ) “ They read the long afternoon through while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house” The quote provides proof that Montag is starting to want to change his society because he is doing something that is illegal he is reading. In the beginning Montag was against reading books he was a member of the fire company that burned them. now he reading a book with millie and he is now starting to enjoy the books. Page 81) ‘Someone who may have been a friend was burned less than Twenty-four hours ago” This is making him change the society because he doesn’t think people should be burned for reading book.

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