Character Analysis Of Montag In Fahrenheit 451

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Throughout the Star Wars saga, Anakin Skywalker undergoes a major personality change. He transforms from an aspiring youth into the Padawan of Obi-Wan Kenobi, finally becoming a Sith Lord. He accomplished all of this in three movies. Obi-Wan inspired the young Anakin to become a Jedi Knight and Darth Sidious convinced him to transfer loyalties to the Dark Side of the Force. Skywalker also shows how a single idea can change all of a character’s life. One of Ray Bradbury’s classics, from three-fifths of a century ago, contains a character who changes in reverse of that of Anakin. Guy Montag, from Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury, undergoes an alteration from bad to good in his book. Montag experiences a character change from …show more content…

He finally transforms into a rebellious character that is willing to take all chances for the preservation of literature by waging a battle. Montag hijacks numerous books and flees towards a forest, commencing a high-speed police chase. Montag escapes in plain sight with another rebel, Granger, who philosophizes “becoming” a book, therefore telling Montag, “you are the Book of Ecclesiastes” (151). Bradbury includes an exemplary use of metaphor to prove that Montag is a true supporter of profound thinking. Bradbury presents Montag as a forbidden book and that 130-mile-per-hour police cruisers and the Hound were assaulting the expediting Montag. As Montag flees towards a forest after he is spotted, he demonstrates his pleasure for books and massive character change. Bradbury expresses that Montag undergoes a character change once more while the novel progresses because the former saturnine, antiheroic fireman, hears, “Guy Montag. Still running. Police helicopters are up. A new Mechanical Hound has been sent from another district” (133). He sacrifices Mildred and flees into an unknown forest where Granger, another supporter of literature, is residing. As major police forces chase Montag down and he sacrifices Mildred for the sake of his society, his saturnine qualities are superseded by heroic and bon vivant ones, transforming him completely. Therefore, Montag is a different character at the end of 163

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