Theme Of Hands In Fahrenheit 451

In Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Montag’s hands play a very important role in contributing to the work as a whole. Montag portrays his hands as having a mind of their own, when in reality he is the one who controls them. He uses his hands as an escape because we ultimately know that he blames his hands on doing things that he is too afraid to admit. Montag blames his hands when he has done something bad, but when he has done something good and wants credit for it his hands suddenly become his partner instead of enemy. Throughout Fahrenheit 451, Montag’s hands foreshadow his own journey into coming to realization of what he really wants. Hands are very important in this novel because they show up at the very beginning before anything else

He secretly takes books to his home and hides them. Even though most of his book stealings are secretive the one we witness, Montag’s hands are the one to blame for it. “Montag had done nothing. His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of it’s own, with a conscience and curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief” (Bradbury 35). Montag uses his hands to cover up his own guilt. He knows that taking books is wrong and especially wrong because he is supposed to be burning them so he simply says his hands did it and feels better about the

Faber “saw what his hands had done and he looked surprised” (Bradbury 84). Montag just stood there while “His hands, by themselves, like two men working together, began to rip the pages from the book” Faber tries to stop him but Montag “warded him off and let his hands continue” (Bradbury 84). This is important because he compares his hands to actual human beings. Which means that his hands are taking so much of a toll on him he compares them to something with a mind and brain, which is why his mouth used words to tell Faber to stop but his hands just kept tearing pages out because they had a mind of their own. Even though Montag does not want to actually destroy the Bible, he lets his hands act on their own because he is desperate for Faber 's