How Montag Changes In Fahrenheit 451

“It was a special pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed”( Bradbury #1). In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag is a firefighter in a futuristic dystopian society. With the idea that books made the society unhappy, books were burnt for the “well-being” of people’s mental health. In Montag’s society, it is ethical for firefighters to start fires than put out. Montag starts to question whether he is happy, he then discovers that he has a big gap missing from his life. He then starts to incorporate books in his life, his attitude then changes from a man who thought it was “ a pleasure to burn” to a man who leads a group of intellectuals back to the burning city.

When Montag burned books it was second nature to him, he described it as if his hands had a mind of its own. He can be considered careless, he wasn’t thinking about the negative effects of burning books. He primarily burned books because he was thought to be a hero in his society. Since he was able to go into a house and cause pure destruction he can also be considered stolid. Montag’s primary focus, in the beginning of the novel, he just wanted to fit into society, he did not want to be different nor stand