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Montag's Responsibility In Fahrenheit 451

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In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, their are two significant characters called Montag and Mildred. Montag is the protagonist of the book and is a thirty-year-old in the twenty-fourth century. Montag’s responsibility as a fireman is to not save lives from burning buildings, but to burn the books he finds and burn the homes in which he finds them. Montag has a pleasure to burn anything he finds, too. He also has a wife name Mildred and Mildred is completely immersed to technology. She loves to go on her beetle and drive like a maniac, killing people and loves to watch a television clown. Mildred distances herself from real emotion by using technology everyday. She is also not compatible with her husband and over time, their relationship …show more content…

When Montag tried to tell Mildred that “you took all the pills in your bottle last night”, she blatantly lied and told him, “Oh?, I wouldn’t do that” (17). Even though he thought that both him and Mildred was happy, he came home and saw Mildred’s lifeless body on the floor with pill bottles. When Montag tries to talk about it, Mildred was in denial and told him that she would never do that. Later, she just ask to get another wall which would allow her to submerge back to another world and not have the responsibility of being a human being. Montag then realized that his marriage was not as perfect as he thought it was. After Montag tries to talk about the incident with Mildred, Mildred asked to “get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall put in”, so she can watch more television (18). Montag was curious why would Mildred want to commit suicide ,so he asked her about it, but Mildred was in denial and rejected his claim. Mildred requested for a fourth wall and did not care about Montag’s pain which he endured watching her lifeless body on the floor. This caused Montag to be exasperated that Mildred would not discuss about herself during that incident. Montag truly cared about Mildred, but Mildred broke his heart and made him feel that “his chest was chopped down and split apart”

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This quote alludes to Montag's robbery of books from the old lady's home. Montag, feeling remorseful, depicts his activities as an automatic real reflex. He depicts his wrongdoing as programmed and claims it includes no idea on his part. He accuses his hands for a few different wrongdoings over the span of the book. Montag sees his hands as contaminated from taking the book and depicts how the ¨poison functions its way into whatever remains of the body.¨

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Clarisse McClellan makes Montag feel uncomfortable for several reasons. First of all, she has knowledge from reading, unlike most of the society. She says, “Bet I know something else you don’t.” (Bradbury 7).

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In stories, a character can be influenced by many things. In Bradbury’s, Fahrenheit 451, Montag meets new people, and finds out new things about people whom he already knows. Along the way, the people he interacts with influences his choices and actions; including Clarisse, Mildred, and Faber. Frequently, Clarisse influences Montag’s choices and actions. In the beginning of the book, she influences Montag by making him realize that he is not happy with his life, by asking him the simple question, “Are you happy?”

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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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Montag starts arguing with Mildred about how she is acting. She is depressed and does not even know it. Mildred thinks that the voices in the walls are her family. Montag tries to get her to see what is really happening in society. She is so unaware of her actions that Montag has top tell her, “maybe you took two pills and forgot and took to more, and forgot again and took two more, and were so dopey you kept right on until you had thirty or forty of them in you” (Bradbury 17).

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Would anyone conform to their societies wishes if they were in Montag’s place, or would they still be their own individual as Montag did throughout Fahrenheit 451? Montag was told, on multiple occasion, to conform to the society and that it would be easier; however he denies society and forms his own individual personality due to the influences of his friends. Although Montag’s society told him to be indifferent and conform to what the society wanted, many other societies would have told him to be unique, not the doll that his society and government had made and told him to be. Montag was told to be what society wanted him to do; however, he lived by being an individual against the grain of society in the book. Montag had been told to conform to society and the government and even by his boss, yet he still rebelled against everything that had to do with conformity.

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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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Then Montag went and did the worst thing possible, he read a poem to Mildred’s friends, Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles. After he read the poem, he fled the house and went to turn in a book to Beatty. What he didn’t know is that the ladies have turn in an alarm and Mildred did too. The firemen, Montag, and Beatty made their way to Montag’s house. Beatty reveals that he knew all along that Montag was lying and made Montag burn down his own house.

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The word illicit sums up the confusion and weakness of the main character, Montag, a follower of the dystopian society, but introduced to a new way of thinking, but he is incapable of handling the contrast of reality and what life is really about. The oppression of dystopian society reveals when he is unsettled about his life due to several instances which make him begin to think beyond his ability and act irrationally rebelling to in an attempt to make changes in society. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury illicits a rebellion through the characterization of Guy Montag as he questions the direction of society in order to suggest the audience does the same thing. Unsettled in his life, the protagonist, Guy Montag is forced to question the status quo of his 2025 society which make him begin to think beyond his ability and act irrationally rebelling to in an attempt to make changes.

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Montag never talks to Mildred about what’s going on in his life but after Mildred snapped at Montag and he revealed his secret about hiding the books, she went a little crazy. She wanted to make sure it was kept a secret and demanded that Montag get rid of them, but he didn’t. Throughout the novel she went from crazy to even more crazy, being demanding and not knowing how to handle situations she’s put in because the way that society conditioned her to be. She is short tempered, easily manipulated, impatient, and seems to lack any sympathy or empathy for anyone. At the beginning of the novel she attempted suicide.

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Mildred struggles with showing her true thoughts and feelings throughout the book and acts as if she does not care because of society's influence and this only distances her from her husband, Montag. While Montag’s curious about a missing friend, Mildred’s thoughtless personality persevered when she answered his question about the missing girl; “McClellan. Run over by a car. Four days ago. I’m not sure.

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