Monday, January 22, 2007

Characters *Fahrenheit 451*


* Who are the main characters in the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them? What do they reveal about the universal human experience?
-Montag is the main character in the story. His occupation is to burn books as a fireman. He has had no thoughts about his occupation and the value of books until he met Clarisse. Through her, Montag learns the nature and the reality. Later he learns more about books and its knowledge from Faber. He realizes that there is no reason to oppose against reading books. He is the protagonist who tries to save books later.

Clarisse McCellan is a seventeen year old girl. She is the new neighbor of Montag, and the first person who told Montag about nature, firemen’s past, books, love, etc. Although she is young, Clarisse is very mature and thoughtful. Through her, Montag decides to start reading books later. She dies because of a car accident.

Mildred is Montag’s wife. She is obsessed with television and acts like a robot. She is thoughtless and immature without any emotions. She tried to suicide by taking many sleeping tablets, but turned out to unsuccessful.

Beatty is the antagonist and simultaneously Montag’s fire captain. He used to read books and has quite a large knowledge of books, but changed his mind to burn them because he could not understand and felt betrayed by the books. Beatty is one of the few who don’t act like robots. He is a human who tries to burn books. Later, he is killed by Montag.

Faber is a retired English professor, who teaches Montag about the value of books. He helps Montag to escape the city.

2 comments:

chris said...

My novel has many round characters. But there are many differences between your novel and my novel. I pity that why they burn all the books instead of extinguish the fire. And my novel is about fighting and combatting.

African Globe Trotters. said...

Tremendous characterization. You have made accurate representation of the novel. Mrs.Mc.

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