Fahrenheit 451's Guy Montag: a Hero or a Villain?
Fahrenheit 451’s Guy Montag: A Hero or a Villain?
Unquestionably, all novels can convey multiple meanings depending on a variety of factors with the most important being the manner in which the audience interprets the author’s words. More importantly, to professionally draw conclusions concerning the message the author demonstrates throughout a text, it is essential to discuss and apply the five literary elements of literature to the text. In greater detail, when a work itself is criticized or evaluated, usually one literary element is focused on to prove an argument pertaining to a novel. To bring the topic into focus, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 possesses many points that could be argued in contradictory ways based upon factual evidence from the text. In particular, the story presents a futuristic world that is in the middle of a nuclear war crisis. The futuristic world is ruled by a totalitarian government that forbids society to practice any form of individual thinking especially reading books. The law preventing individual thinking seems to be recently established because the government is just beginning to destroy all of the books. The main character, Guy Montag, is introduced as a so called “fireman” with the chief responsibility to dispose of the books in libraries and even homes. Throughout the first stages of the novel, Guy Montag is portrayed as a heartless, abhorrent human being. Surprisingly, Montag reflects that of a protagonist character towards the end of the novel because he is always changing, growing, and keeping the reader’s interest. Clearly, Ray Bradbury is able to masterfully integrate careful examples from the novel, along with literary criticisms from outside sources concerning the character of Guy Montag, to change the reader’s opinion and prove that he is ultimately a hero and not a villain.
Without doubt, at the start of the novel, metaphors and details point toward the idea that Guy Montag is a ruthless, serpent-like creation. For
Unquestionably, all novels can convey multiple meanings depending on a variety of factors with the most important being the manner in which the audience interprets the author’s words. More importantly, to professionally draw conclusions concerning the message the author demonstrates throughout a text, it is essential to discuss and apply the five literary elements of literature to the text. In greater detail, when a work itself is criticized or evaluated, usually one literary element is focused on to prove an argument pertaining to a novel. To bring the topic into focus, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 possesses many points that could be argued in contradictory ways based upon factual evidence from the text. In particular, the story presents a futuristic world that is in the middle of a nuclear war crisis. The futuristic world is ruled by a totalitarian government that forbids society to practice any form of individual thinking especially reading books. The law preventing individual thinking seems to be recently established because the government is just beginning to destroy all of the books. The main character, Guy Montag, is introduced as a so called “fireman” with the chief responsibility to dispose of the books in libraries and even homes. Throughout the first stages of the novel, Guy Montag is portrayed as a heartless, abhorrent human being. Surprisingly, Montag reflects that of a protagonist character towards the end of the novel because he is always changing, growing, and keeping the reader’s interest. Clearly, Ray Bradbury is able to masterfully integrate careful examples from the novel, along with literary criticisms from outside sources concerning the character of Guy Montag, to change the reader’s opinion and prove that he is ultimately a hero and not a villain.
Without doubt, at the start of the novel, metaphors and details point toward the idea that Guy Montag is a ruthless, serpent-like creation. For