Guy Montag In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Guy Montag is a rigid and unimaginative character at the beginning of the book. He acts as an uneducated ma who takes on any task asked of him with no questions. As Fahrenheit 451 continues, Montag shifts from his uneducated state to an inquisitive individual of the society as well as neighboring societies around him. The progress of the character Montag is key to the plot of Fahrenheit 451. Without Guy Montag, the story would not have main conflict to focus on. The character curvature of Montag in the entire Ray Bradbury’s book influences the individuals he comes across and the happenings of the narrative (Nichols 680). Character improvement is the character's status that unfolds in the entire story. Such is fundamental to the understanding …show more content…

Depicting a third cohort fire worker, Montag has the orthodox responsibility with his signature black brows, hair, blazing face as well as a blue-steel shaved mustache. Montag assumes massive joy in his work while serving as an archetypal of twenty-fourth-century expertise. Stinking of ash and cinders, Montag takes pleasure in his job attire, assuming the duties of a masterpiece conductor as he points the brass needle toward the prohibited printed material. Montag enjoys the smelling kerosene that enhances temperature to the standard 451 degrees Fahrenheit, which represents the heat at which the books explode (Conor 415). Montag registered as a member of the firemen's brutal game of allowing small creatures lose and betting on which of them would conquer first. The situation happened in the course of his first eight years in …show more content…

After the start of the book, the author depicts Montag as a complete traditionalist with the totalitarian framework in which he resides (Rabkin 98). Here, readers find an obedient man who does not think for himself or question any orders given. Montag is the husband of Mildred (Millie) an insipid female spending her better part of the day in front of three televisions sets. Millie silences to sleep at night with sleeping pills and music. Montag is a government worker where he operates as a fireman, tasked with setting fire to the houses of criminals who possess books (Navratil 50). Montag also doubles up as a person employee who sets loose the Mechanical Hound with the aim of tracking down the people seeking knowledge and information. Routinely, Montag takes pleasure in conducting his destructive and cruel job and makes him happy by watching the agony he causes other people. Together with his colleagues at work, they take part in in masochists’ games where small animals are allowed to fight as they bet for the