Taylor Schulte Period 3 May 4, 2016 Study Guide Questions Montag lights a house on fire and enjoys it. In this part of the novel, fire represents hell. Montag is cheerful, oblivious, and somewhat normal. Also he is characterized as easy-going. Montag's helmet has that number 451 on it because paper burns at 451°F. In the setting, it is near the end of the year. Maybe something new will come, or the exact opposite- maybe something bad will happen. Bradbury describes Clarisse as white in shining, which shows she's angelic. Also she's very positive with curious eyes. Electric light is considered harsh and impersonal, while candle light is natural, welcoming, and warming. We learned that no one in the society wonders or questions anything, and technology is very relevant. It is very futuristic …show more content…
She quotes him during her horrible death. This part from the story shows that, in this society, humans are not taught to have opinions or feelings about anything, and some are willing to die for it. Montag uses a lot of figurative language, and says things like "winter islands". When lying on his bed, she has "sweating cold fingers". These quotes are very contradicting. Montag begins to cry when he thinks about Mildred dying because he realizes that their relationship has been very dull and without love. She doesn't know if he'd be sad or miss her if she died. Mildred and Montag don't act like family. They aren't loving towards each other and barely even notice or pay attention to each other. As Montag laid in his bed thinking what is wrong with his marriage, he thinks about how both him and Mildred can't remember when they first met, which shows how distant their relationship is. Mildred doesn't exactly care that Montag is ill. She doesn't make an effort to help in and act selfish and only worries how his sickness affects
Mildred is not just self-centered, she is also unfeeling. For example she forgot to tell Montag that clarisse had died, and didn’t seem fazed at all. She is also robotic. When captain Beatty came to talk to Montag, Montag had asked her to leave the room. She did angrily, but she still did as she was told.
Last Mildred shows how unfeeling she is. This quote shows how she is unfeeling “ McClellan. Run over by a car. Four days ago.” Mildred acts like a death was normal not a big deal. Beatty had told montag how they only want people to have fun. The government just wants people totally carefree about everything. They basically just want unfeeling people to control. This is crazy that a government would think fun is the only emotion people need.
As the story progresses, Montag’s relationship with the fire changes through his relationships. By meeting characters such as Clarisse, Beatty, and the academics, he learns to understand the fire after his whole society has collapsed around him. In the start, Guy believes that the fire is clean, then he started to realize how destructive it was, and only later did he find out that fire can provide the crucial life that people need.
First, Mildred could be described as unfeeling. She does not care and is emotionless to everything that happens no matter what it is. In the novel, a woman kills herself in front of Montag, and because of this he is upset. Mildred’s response to this included, “She’s nothing to me; she shouldn’t have books, it was her responsibility, she should have thought of that.” She does not care that her husband is upset, and she doesn’t feel sorry or sad that someone died. Based on Captain
...about the Clarisse girl dying. This upset Montag that she didn’t tell him till 4 days after it happened. Today we do not take death seriously. It’s because of the video games that have a lot of death in them. This kind of numbs us of death says the Do You Know What Your Child Is Playing website. We are like Mildred, how we don’t even think death is a big deal unless it is someone we know.
Many times there are numerous meanings of a single thing, and Ray Bradbury effectively demonstrates the different implications of fire through the progression of Montag’s thinking. From the start Montag just knows the damaging force of fire, yet gradually comes to comprehend that fire can be comforting and reviving. It is this advancement of believing that helps Montag in turning into an individual and breaking the obligations of his mindless society. As addressed by Bradbury, while fire can result in death and devastation, the warmth, hope and solace of flame supports and replenishes through the ages, and the same fire that controlled Montag in the recent past, will now aid him in making a new city assembled from knowledge.
The third reason why Mildred is a bad wife if because she doesn’t have a heart. Everyone feels the lost if someone you know died. Montag just realized that he’s been killing people for the wrong reason. People whose only offense is reading books, and killing an innocent soul is no different than being a murderer. She doesn’t care that people died. She doesn’t give a crap that her husband is a murderer. “She means nothing to me!” are the exact words that she used because she only cares about herself.
The second cause that had a huge impact on the society was relationships. Montag and his wife Mildred seem to lack the love and communication they had when they were first married. When Mildred was happy about the White Clown,...
It is only once in a while a book comes along so great in its message, so frightening in its inferred meaning’s of fire as in Fahrenheit 451. Fire, which is used as a symbol of chaos, destruction, and death, can also lead to knowledge. Fire has 3 different meanings. Fire represents change, which is shown through Montag’s symbolic change from using fire to burn knowledge into using fire to help him find knowledge; fire can represent knowledge as demonstrated through Faber, and fire can represent rebirth of knowledge as shown through the phoenix. Fire represents change in the novel because fire allows Montag to undergo a symbolic change in which he stops using fire to burn knowledge but instead help him find it.
Firstly, fire is shown to provide as a symbol of warmth. This is shown at the end of the book when Montag meets the group of men on the train tracks. Towards the end of the book, you can see how Montag’s view of fire has changed. “It was not burning. It was warming.” (pg. 145) At the beginning of the book, Montag sees fire as a means of destruction and control.
Later in the book Montag has a connection with nature and has a real connection with another person. Guy Montag ...
At the beginning of the novel, Montag considers it a pleasure to burn due to the power it gave him. For Montag, burning was the only thing he knew, and to him the only way of life. Getting to be apart of the wonderful experience of helping your government made Montag feel important, being able to help out. It also let him have control over the fire, which all means for him burning is a good thing.
Of all characters, Bradbury uses Mildred Montag to effectively portray the idea that the majority of society has taken happiness as a refuge in nothing but passive, addictive entertainment. She immediately reveals her character early in the book, by saying, “My family is people. They tell me things: I laugh. They laugh! And the colors!” (73). Mildred is describing her parlors, or gigantic wall televisions, in this quote. Visual technological entertainment is so important in her life that she refers them to as “family,” implying the television characters as her loved ones. By immersing herself in an imaginary world, Mildred finds herself able to relate to fake characters and plots, giving her a phony sense of security. This is necessary for her to achieve her shallow happiness, or senseless plain fun, as she lifelessly watches other people in her walls with a senseless mind. Her family in real life only consists of Guy Montag, her husband, whom she has no fond feelings about. Montag is so frustrated with Mildred because of her inability to express feelings for ...
Within the many layers of Montag lay several opposite sides. For example, Montag is a fireman who burns books for a living but at home, spends time reading novels, poetry, and other written material. Although Montag could be called a hypocrite, he does not enjoy both the reading and the burning at the same time; he goes through a change that causes him to love books. Humans have the power to change and grow from one extreme to another, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. In addition, when Mildred is with Montag, Montag does not have feelings for her but thinks of her as she is killed by the bombs. He possesses both the knowledge that Mildred does not love him and the heart that truly cares, but he knows not how to deal with this. His feelings are oppressed; it takes a major event (the bomb) to jolt them from hibernation.
... chin. She tells Montag that this means she is in love. When she rubs the dandelion underneath Montag's chin she has a very different result. There is no powder. “'What a shame,' she said. 'You're not in love with anyone' 'I am very much in love!' He tried to conjure up a face to fit the words, but there was no face 'I am!'” Montag goes home, and thinks about this. He later realizes that he isn't in love, and would not care if Mildred died.