The Significance Of Fireman In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

The vision is bleary and hazy, and only the noise of crepitating flames dissipated over the cornsilk colored pages of a book can be made out. In Ray Bradbury’s enthralling novel Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag the protagonist, embraces the occupancy of a fireman in a futuristic society. However, firemen from this epoch ignite ghastly infernos rather than cease them. Within this dystopian government, books are banned and disintegrated with scorching flames upon discovery, and Montag has no remorse about his responsibility. One day Montag is acquainted with a peculiar Clarisse McClellan whom possesses a genuine perception, and later opens Montag’s eyes to the world of nature. Exposed to an unfamiliar set of experiences, Montag develops a newfangled way of reasoning later proving that when a

During a conversation between Montag and his wife Mildred, Montag cracks and says “Let you alone! That’s all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered?” And it’s true what Montag says, when had Mildred ever been bothered by something of importance or grandness? Never, and that’s why she is still in a blinded state. Therefore, Montag is fed up with Mildred not worrying about anything and not thinking about situations like he has learned to do, and he believes that it’s a good thing to worry about something once in a while. It’s good to be able to apply logic and reason to a situation, something uncommon in the current society that makes people like Clarisse and Montag stand out.

Many hidden symbols about Identity are portrayed in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, but if anything is clearer on what the author is trying to deliver to us, is that only the unexpected events /people in a person’s life can spark a light of that beings natural