Guy Montag's Transformation In Fahrenheit 451
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society” - Jiddu Krishnamurti. This quote really goes along with the theme of this book because the society in this book clearly has a disdain for books and knowledge while the outsiders of the society want nothing more than the very thing that is despised. This is the society that Guy Montag lives and changes in. Through the use of characters and events, Ray Bradbury shows a transformation in Guy Montag through the novel Fahrenheit 451.
Using Clarisse McClellan as a catalyst, Bradbury begins to show how Montag questions his perceptions of society, which creates an inner conflict within himself. Before Montag met Clarisse, he was a proud fireman always ready to start a fire …show more content…
The man take in Montag and open his eyes to the fact that he is not alone. The man tells him, “We all made the right kind of mistakes, or we wouldn’t be here when we were separate individuals, all we had was rage”. Here, Granger is explaining how he and his men are like Montag . Montag discovers that they’ve been through the same things he had. The men had all realized that their life was wrong, so they escaped. In another scene, Granger tells Montag a story about why he remembers his grandfather so vividly. He says,”Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die. It doesn’t matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away”. Granger makes this statement to explain how people are remembered. He says people are remembered for what they did, not who they were. Montag, who suddenly misses Mildred, is told this to realize she meant nothing to him. At the end of the novel, Granger talks to his men about the Phoenix. He explains, “But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we’re doing the same thing, over and over, but we’ve got one damn thing the Phoenix never had… We know all the damn silly things we’ve done for a thousand years.” This statement is made when the men come to after the nearby city is bombed. It reflects on the twisted system that the nation lives on. If something goes wrong, the government just bombs the source of the disturbance. They think this will solve all of their
Using Clarisse McClellan as a catalyst, Bradbury begins to show how Montag questions his perceptions of society, which creates an inner conflict within himself. Before Montag met Clarisse, he was a proud fireman always ready to start a fire …show more content…
The man take in Montag and open his eyes to the fact that he is not alone. The man tells him, “We all made the right kind of mistakes, or we wouldn’t be here when we were separate individuals, all we had was rage”. Here, Granger is explaining how he and his men are like Montag . Montag discovers that they’ve been through the same things he had. The men had all realized that their life was wrong, so they escaped. In another scene, Granger tells Montag a story about why he remembers his grandfather so vividly. He says,”Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die. It doesn’t matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away”. Granger makes this statement to explain how people are remembered. He says people are remembered for what they did, not who they were. Montag, who suddenly misses Mildred, is told this to realize she meant nothing to him. At the end of the novel, Granger talks to his men about the Phoenix. He explains, “But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we’re doing the same thing, over and over, but we’ve got one damn thing the Phoenix never had… We know all the damn silly things we’ve done for a thousand years.” This statement is made when the men come to after the nearby city is bombed. It reflects on the twisted system that the nation lives on. If something goes wrong, the government just bombs the source of the disturbance. They think this will solve all of their