Ray Bradbury’s characters in Fahrenheit 451, have completely different opinions, but are participating in the same action. The antagonist of the novel, Beatty, is one of the most significant characters that symbolize the phoenix. He read all the prohibited books from curiosity. This can be predicted when he quotes from those banned books persistently. Beatty has attained the knowledge required to prevent tragedies, but he does not realize the importance of the books that are prohibited. The phoenix does not acknowledge the fact that it will die when it falls into the fire of death, so it continues to repeat the same thing again. Beatty is doing an identical action by not realizing how the society is being affected by the book burnings. He just considers the books as nothing else, but a medium to create debates and contradictions. He is not capable, of understanding the reason for such debates. According to Beatty, “If happiness and thus freedom, insofar as it is the pursuit of happiness, is the objective, then books must go”(Filler 531). Happiness relies on whether the problem has been solved, although, according to Beatty’s …show more content…
However, this statement can cause an instant to think, “it is significant that we never see Faber with books” (Filler 538). This expounds the trepidation of the society to rise up from the destruction, or the courage to prevent the destruction. Although, Faber understands the consequences created by the society. The understanding and knowledge Faber pertained are the next level to the cleansed regeneration of their civilization. Unlike Faber, Montag has the guts to take this problem a step forward. If every single citizen, has the courage Montag had, and the understanding Faber had, the ultimate regeneration of a new civilization with the requisite knowledge, will be