At first Montag likes to burn things because it makes him happy, like some kind of strange high. Burning is wonderful to him. He is doing what he’s told to do and he believes he is serving his society in which he lives. Life is wonderful or so he thinks. When Montag sets fire to his own house he realizes it’s wrong and that he has lost everything including all of his memories. Montag knows it’s wrong and is just doing what he’s told. At the same time though I think he also realizes he is being set free from Captain Beatty and the power that was over him before.
When Montag first meets Clarisse he notices she is odd. He still believes burning is good. She then starts to make Montag question if he is truly happy and if what he has been taught all his life is the way it is supposed to be. If it is right or not.
Montag then starts to talk more to Captain Beatty. Captain Beatty tells Montag in a very round about way about what happens to those who don’t conform to society. This makes Montag question more if what he is doing is right or not. Montag comes up with what he has been doing is wrong and changes are needed.
Montag’s own wife Mildred even makes him think twice. She has attempted serveral times at taking her own life by over dousing on her prescribed medications. She does nothing but talk to the parlor walls which are TVs the size of a wall or she talks to her friends. He wonders if she even loves him and if electronics is part of what society does to keep people from seeing the wrong in which they are doing. The kids are constantly going though out the day that by night falls they crash.
Montag finally realizes that burning was wrong when he leaves the city I think. He knows he is doing something right when the government doesn’t like it and sends the hound after him. I think he also knows it when his gut is telling him that burning is bad by questioning everything that happens. Montag knows that the society in which he lives is wrong when he if forced to burn a lady and all of her books. I believe that is when he realizes for the second time in a very clear way that things are screwed up. No one should die because of a book. It is not the same as murder so why should people suffer.
2 comments:
When Montag first started out he did like burning books but like you said he realized that burning was wrong. But I personally think that he do things quite right. For example he could have wrote a letter to like the mayor or something like that. But then again the book wouldn't be as exciting as it was. :)
Montag didn't know anything really. He was just following orders and rules. When he met Clarisse is when he started to doubt his job and everything in society. I think he's a great role model for how a person can change. You mention he's wife Mildred who was not the best wife, just like you said she was never really there in the book the author described her as numb, cause she was there but wasn't really there.
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