For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage.
Are books hidden in his house? People who disobey the law end up being punished, but some just want to sacrifice everything they have for the knowledge of what the books gave them. One woman was caught with books in her home and was set on fire because she refused to leave, she wanted to stay with the. It symbolizes this by showing how the firemen are starting fires, and not putting them out.
In the quote it explained how he ignited a fire that burned down a house, when firefighters are supposed to be putting out fires, and not starting them. Another symbolism for fire is the. The world of Fahrenheit is not a place that one may want to live. It is a dystopian world. The novel being titled Fahrenheit one might have thoughts of heat or burning or fire. Whether fire is being used as a weapon of destruction or a way to cleanse the impurity in the.
Throughout the book he encounters many different people who each change him in different ways. Some people convince him that fire is great because of its destruction. It burns away the things that make people unhappy, and changes things. However, as his journey continues, he begins to see fire as an escape. By the end of the book, he realizes that fire does not just take and destroy.
Captain Beatty, as noted earlier, has been suspicious of Montag's recent behavior, but he isn't aware of the intellectual and moral changes going on in Montag. However, he recognizes Montag's discontent, so he visits Montag. He tells Montag that books are figments of the imagination.
Fire is good because it eliminates the conflicts that books can bring. Montag later concludes that Beatty is actually afraid of books and masks his fear with contempt. In effect, his visit is a warning to Montag not to allow the books to seduce him. Notice that Beatty repeatedly displays great knowledge of books and reading throughout this section.
Obviously, he is using his knowledge to combat and twist the doubts that Montag is experiencing. In fact, Beatty points out that books are meaningless, because man as a creature is satisfied as long as he is entertained and not left uncertain about anything.
Books create too much confusion because the intellectual pattern for man is "out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery. Another interesting point discussed by Beatty in this section is how people view death. While discussing death, Beatty points out, "Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust. Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriums. Also in this discussion between Beatty and Montag, the reader can question whether Clarisse's death was accidental, as Beatty states, "queer ones like her don't happen often.
We know how to nip most of them in the bud, early. The major developments of Part One surround the degenerated future in which books and independent thinking are forbidden. Notice, however, Bradbury's implicit hope and faith in the common man by representing the life of a working-class fireman. Though Montag isn't a man of profound thought or speech, his transformation has occurred through his innate sense of morality and growing awareness of human dignity.
Note, as well, the dual image of fire in its destructive and purifying functions. Although fire is destructive, it also warms; hence, the source of the title of Part One, "The Hearth and the Salamander.
In ancient mythology, the salamander was a creature that could survive fire. Possibly Montag himself is represented in the salamander reference. His job dictates that he live in an environment of fire and destruction, but Montag realizes that the salamander is able to remove itself from fire — and survive.
This connection between books and birds continues throughout the text and symbolizes enlightenment through reading. Here, vehicles resemble beetles in the dystopian society. In the concept of nature, the salamander is a visual representation of fire. In mythology, it endures the flames without burning. Clarisse the girl's name derives from the Latin word for brightest. Guy Montag his name suggests two significant possibilities — Guy Fawkes, the instigator of a plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament in , and Montag, a trademark of Mead, an American paper company, which makes stationery and furnaces.
The image reflects the oppressive nature of a society that burns books because the man in the moon is always watching them. Used to describe the interior of Guy's bedroom. The moonstone is connected with Mercury, the mythological guide who leads souls to the underworld. TV parlor a multidimensional media family that draws the viewer into action, thereby supplanting the viewer's real family. That's what the lady said snappy stage comeback that Mildred uses in place of normal conversation.
November 4 the firemen play cards early on Mischief Day November 4 , the eve of Guy Fawkes Day, when bonfires and burning of guys in effigy commemorate his Gunpowder Plot, an abortive attempt to destroy James I and his Protestant supporters, who oppressed Catholics. Stoneman and Black firemen whose names suggest that the hardness of their hearts and the color of their skin and hair come from contact with smoke.
Benjamin Franklin founder of America's first fire company in Boston in Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out! Later, Captain Beatty recites the latter portion of the quotation and indicates that he knows something of history. Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine from Chapter 1 of Dreamthorp , a collection of essays by Alexander Smith, a Glasgow lacemaker.
Tower of Babel in Genesis , the mythic explanation of how Noah's children came to speak different languages. The word babel means a confusion of voices, languages, or sounds. It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end Jonathan Swift illustrates the pettiness of human controversy in Book I, Chapter 4 of Gulliver's Travels.
The satire found in Swift's writing emphasizes the absurd extent to which society will go to enforce conformity. When Montag reads this quote to Millie, he is pointing out that people are willing to die rather than conform, even though others may believe their position to be absurd or irrational.
Previous Character List. Next Part 2. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. Literally everybody is watching the televised chase. As Montag continues to run toward the river, he hears an announcement on his Seashell radio telling everyone to get up and look out their doors and windows for him on the count of ten.
He reaches the river just as the announcer counts to ten and all the doors in the neighborhood start to open.
To keep the Hound from picking up his scent, he wades into the river and drifts away with the current. He avoids the searchlights of the police helicopters, and then sees them turn and fly away. He washes ashore in the countryside. Stepping out of the river, he is overwhelmed by the sights, sounds, and smells of nature.
He finds the railroad track and follows it. As he walks, he senses strongly that Clarisse once walked there, too. The track leads him to a fire with five men sitting around it. The leader of the men sees him in the shadows and invites him to join them, introducing himself as Granger. Granger reveals a portable TV set and tells him that they have been watching the chase and expecting him to come. The men at the fire, though homeless, are surprisingly neat and clean, and have considerable technology.
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