The Role Of Montag In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Montag and Anderton thought they knew their companies, but they only knew what the companies wanted them to know. John Anderton and Guy Montag work for companies that are regular in their society, but they soon realise that the companies are not perfect and they are actually bad for their society. The roles of Anderton and Montag as iconoclasts in their society have negative effects but are ultimately portrayed as positive figures in their societies.
Montags job in the beginning of the novel was a fireman who burned books and arrested people who had books. However, he discovers that it was bad for people to not know history. Montag finds book hobos outside the city and gets talked to by them. The leader of the book hobos, Granger, explains why it is bad for books to be burned and why we should remember our history. Montag finds book hobos outside the city and gets talked to by them. The leader of the book hobos, Granger, explains why it is bad for books to be burned and why we should remember our history. “He tells the story of the phoenix and how he always burns himself up because he doesn’t remember his past and always has to start over. He says ‘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 the damn silly thing we just did.” (163 Bradbury) When people don’t remember
In Fahrenheit 451, Montag Destroys the fire department with a nuke and Anderton makes the creator of pre crime kill himself. There should be iconoclasts in every society because most people see the big picture but very little people see what is behind it all and their dirty little secrets that no one knows about. People don’t realise that there will always be a flaw in something and nothing is perfect but iconoclasts need to stand up and prove them wrong because it could cause