Who Is Montag's Society In Fahrenheit 451

Montag is someone who has rejected his society in order for his own happiness. In the beginning of the book, Montag was a normal civilian living among others exactly like him. Montag starts to realize just how messed up the society that he is living in is. He comes to officially reject society when he's sees that things could be different, even if it's somewhere else. Montag realizes what it means to be a fully functional human. Clarisse comes into his life but he denies that he is not where he wants to be. (Sip) Clarisse asked him questions that made him rethink what he thought the answer was. “Are you happy?’ she said. ‘Am I what?’ he cried. But she was gone-running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently. ‘Happy! Of all

He walked toward the corner, thinking little about nothing in particular”(2). Just like the rest of society, he chooses not to think about things that could put him in danger. Going outside the box is one of those things but by shutting himself out from thinking about the possibilities, he is restraining himself from the world that he could live in where he would be happy. He has ideas in his head of what happiness is but it is not true happiness. “Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame.He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burnt-corked, in the mirror. Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark. It never went away, that. smile, it never ever went away, as long as he remembered”(2). Montag doesn't think about why he does something, he just does it. He doesn't realize that what he is doing, isn't really happiness. He doesn't know what real happiness feels like so he congers ideas in his head. “He laughed. She glanced quickly over.’Why are you

He first realizes how people have no characteristics of their own. “But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else”(28). He looks around him and sees that nobody is different. Everybody acts the same, talks the same, and looks the same but nobody is unique except for Clarisse and that is why everyone doesn’t accept her. He wants to believe that he is one of a kind, but really, he has fallen into the government's trap, just like the rest of society. “They were all mirror images of himself!”(30). He knows that everyone else is no different than one another, but it comes as a surprise to him to see that he is a part of that world of no differences. (Sip) He starts to feel emotions, which is a key trait that the rest of society lacks. At the fire station, he has been around the hound for years, but just now he feels bad that it is being deprived of what it could learn. “That’s sad,’ Montag said quietly, ‘Because all we put into it is hunting and killing and that's all it would ever know”(25). Before Clarisse came, he felt nothing for the hound and never even thought about what it might feel, but Montag is starting to gain more human traits . Montag not only felt sympathy for the hound but he