CHARACTER PROFILES: MONTAG
MONTAG Quotes
Guy Montag is the protagonist of the novel and
works as a fireman, someone who burns books
in the futuristic city. He enjoys his job but soon He felt his body divide itself into a
starts to reflect on his society and whether he hotness and a coldness, a softness and
is doing a good or bad thing; whether he is the a hardness, a trembling and a not
good or bad one. But as a certain person said trembling, the two halves grinding one
Right and wrong are not what separate us upon the other.
and our enemies. Its our different standpoints,
our perspectives that separate us. Both sides Ray Bradbury uses contrast which shows
blame one another. Theres no good or bad Montag mind dividing into two parts which
side, just two different sides holding different clash.
views.
Good work with lots of variety.
Monday, we burn Miller; Tuesday,
Role Tolstoy; Wednesday, Walt Whitman;
Friday, Faulkner; and Saturday and
Guy Montag is the protagonist in the book
Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. We
Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury. He is
burn them to ashes and then burn the
a fireman, someone who goes around burning
ashes.
banned books and literature. From the first
moment he wonders about what books are, his The author uses irony in this quote with
whole life began to change. This change Montag saying his job was a lot of variety
accelerated when he met Clarisse, a young girl when he himself is actually without any
who is different from the other civilians. She individuality.
asks him whether he is happy or not, and at
first, he answers like anyone else would, with Montag's hand closed like a mouth,
confidence and certainty that he is happy. But crushed the book with wild devotion,
when he thinks about it later, he realises he with an insanity of mindlessness to his
does not know what real happiness is. She is chest.
his inspiration, What incredible power of
identification the girl had; she was like the By using personification, we feel like if
eager watcher of a marionette show, Montags hand has grown a life of its own
anticipating each flicker of an eyelid, each and wont listen to Montag anymore.
gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the
moment before it began. How long had they
walked together? Later on, when his identity
changes more and more, he blames all the
madness on his hands and pretending he has
CHARACTER PROFILE CLARISSE
CLARISSE Quotes
Clarisse McClellan is one of the main "I sometimes think drivers don't
characters in the book even though she only know what grass is, or flowers,
spears in the first part. She is a free-spirited because they never see them
young girl who is different from the rest of slowly...if you showed a driver a
society. She likes to takes things slowly, green blur, Oh yes! he'd say, that's
curious and also is interested into many things grass! A pink blur! That's a rose
like nature. She is the linchpin to the garden. White blurs are houses.
metamorphosis caused in Montag, but Brown blurs are cows."
mysteriously disappears early on in the novel,
apparently dying in a car crash. This shows the difference between
Clarisse and the others as she takes
Role notice in the little things, while
everyone else doesnt as they need the
Clarisse had a simple yet vital role in the rush and thrill of the adrenaline rush.
story, to make Montag change to what he is at
the end of the book, someone who cares and Are you happy?
thinks about life, even though the things he
This simple yet fundamental question is
did on the way might not reflect that. Being a
how the change in Montag started.
pedestrian, Clarisse in unusually interested in
Montag thinks over and over about his
the world around her, also, she had the rarely
happiness and whether he is really
trait of being curious compared to the rest of
happy and satisfied with his life or not.
society. This eventually affects Montag when
she asks him, Are you happy?
"I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix.
Because of Clarisse, Montag eventually
It's so strange. I'm very social
realises that everything is wrong with his life.
He hates him job and doesnt love his wife, indeed. It all depends on what you
Mildred anymore. After continual mean by social, doesn't it? Social to
conversations, Montag also eventually became
me means talking to you about
curious and stile a book for himself, which
changed the direction of the book completely. things like this."
This shows how Clarisse is different
Without Clarisse making Montag realise that
was wrong with his life, Guy might have never from the other people. They view her
