In the middle of the crying Montag knew it for the truth. Beatty had wanted to die. Skip to content Common questions. March 22, Joe Ford. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. Montag grinned before he met Clarisse, but that early grin was an expression of ignorance and power, not an expression of true happiness. In fact, their society with its ban on books and emphasis on being constantly distracted seems to be designed to prevent relationships from deepening and holding more meaning than a superficial bond.
It is only because of Montag's influence that Faber finally finds the courage to truly rebel. Clarisse tells Montag how many of her friends have been killed, either by shootings or joyriding cars. Violence is the only outlet people feel they have to express their anger, frustration, and unhappiness. Ace your assignments with our guide to Fahrenheit !
SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Why did the government ban books? Why does Mildred overdose on sleeping pills? Why does Montag want to read books? How does Montag know about Faber? What happens to Clarisse? Why does Mrs. Clearly, Faber encourages Montag to endure despite the difficulty of his undertaking. The two women seem artificial, superficial, and empty to Montag. The conversation that Montag forces them to have reveals their lack of concern about the coming war, the pervasiveness and casual treatment of suicide in their society, and the deplorable state of family ethics.
They remind him of icons he once saw in a church and did not understand; they seem strange and meaningless to him. In a third instance of religious imagery, Faber describes himself as water and Montag as fire, claiming that the merging of the two will produce wine. Montag longs to confirm his own identity through a similar self-transformation. He hopes that when he becomes this new self, he will be able to look back and understand the man he used to be. After only a short time with the audio transmitter in his ear, Montag feels that he has known Faber a lifetime and that Faber has actually become a part of him.
Here again, Bradbury illustrates the contradictory nature of technology—it is both positive and negative, simultaneously beneficial and manipulative. Bradbury further develops the opposition between Faber and Beatty in this section. When Montag returns to the fire station, Beatty spouts learned quotations like mad and uses literature to justify banning literature. Here he lets Montag make his own decision and stops ordering him around.
Ace your assignments with our guide to Fahrenheit ! Montag's wife whom he courted in Chicago and married when they both were twenty, Mildred characterizes shallowness and mediocrity. Her abnormally white flesh and chemically burnt hair epitomize a society that demands an artificial beauty in women through diets and hair dye.
Completely immersed in an electronic world and growing more incompatible with Montag with every electronic gadget that enters her house, she fills her waking hours with manic drives in the beetle and by watching a TV clown, who distracts her from her real feelings and leads her nearly to suicide from a drug overdose. Unwilling and unable to analyze rationally, she lives the shallow life that Beatty touts — acquiescence to a technological chamber of horrors.
She distances herself from real emotion by identifying with "the family," a three-dimensional fiction in which she plays a scripted part.
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