How Does Montag Create Happiness In Fahrenheit 451

Throughout this book we can see people who live their lives without asking themselves if they are doing the right thing, or why am I doing this, or what is my life goal. Some characters may conclude that they want to spend their entire lives with their TV. Others to have fun. Montag had been one of these people for many years. When he met Clarisse he slowly began surface from his shell, and transform into a true

Soon, he began to wonder why he was not satisfied with his life, he began to question why nobody had the time to sit back for a minute and reflect upon their lives. He discovered that nothing he had done through out his life defined his character; everything Montag had done was merely influenced by his community. He had adapted an image of someone that was not him. He had to met Clarisse in order to realize that his behavior and his way of living was not who he wanted to be. Subsequently, he began a desperate quest to find his true character and comprehend his purpose in

He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He wore his happiness like a mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back" (Bradbury 9). Here, Montag realizes the fictitious illusion of happiness that society has put him under, thanks to Clarisse’s inquisitions.(STEWE-2) When Montag meets with Clarisse again, he continues to wonder about his previous thoughts and his beliefs.

And I’d never even thought of that before.” (49) Montag begins to realize how wrong what he is doing really was. Books were powerful, Clarisse was powerful. Montag’s world was widening, his vision was expanding.

Fear of doing the same thing and being the same person as everyone else drove Montag to try and bring books back. Montag meets Clarisse a few pages in and immediately starts to realize what he’s missing. He doesn’t seem to mind too much that he’s missing the big things, but rather that he didn’t realize the face of the moon, or dew on the grass. ““Did you know that once billboards were only twenty feet long?

Now because of this his relationship with Clarisse is stronger. He starts to go back to work and acquire more and more books. Montag figures out that what he has been doing is going come back to bite him … and it does. ‘You’ll be fine. This is a special case… ‘Here we are!’

(Bradbury 6). Clarisse tells Montag details about him that he didn't even know about himself. Montag thought

(Bradbury 8). Montag is faced, for the first time, with having to examine his life and if he is actually happy. It destroys his “mask”, allowing him to see the problems of his life, and, more importantly, society. The new perspective “kills” a part of him, the part that was content with his perfect life (having a good,

To begin, At first montag is the average civilian living a normal life. He does what he needs to do to survive, all the while he knows something is missing. Before he met the life changing character Clarisse, he was conformed to society just like everyone else. However, Clarisse was the spark that grew the fire of knowledge in his heart. Then when he seen a woman rather be burned alive then to live without books the spark only grew.

Is ignorance bliss? Or can true happiness come only from knowledge? In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist, Guy Montag, lives in a futuristic, dystopian version of the United States in which knowledge is frowned upon, ignorance runs rampant, and uniformity is imperative. To fit in with the societal assumption that sameness equates to happiness, Guy feels he must conform and play the part of a contented citizen. However, Guy frequently finds himself questioning the validity of his society’s mindless, materialistic approach to life.

(MIP-2) From certain experiences, Montag comes to realize that he’s not actually happy with his life because he discovers that it lacks genuine, valuable, or humane relationships, eventually driving him to find the truth about his society by making him think about and question it. (SIP-A) Montag realizes from his experiences with Clarisse that his relationships in his life lack genuity, value, or humanity. (STEWE-1)

In a society where books are burned, an unlikely hero Montag is awakened. In this dystopian society, Guy Montag gives us a perspective to a dark, but changing without much Montag must guide himself through a civilization of lucid vegetables. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, predicts a shocking future where parlor walls and violence have taken over the social life of civilians as the corrupted government promotes and restricts knowledge. At first Montag is depicted as a dense character that takes everyone’s word for it, until he faces an internal conflict he never thought of, his happiness.

She is the first person who challenges Montag and gets him to truly think. She triggers Montag’s questioning of life, what he is doing, and his relationship with his wife Mildred. Upon their first encounter Clarisse begins asking Montag questions, questions about a time when firefighters put out flames not started them, a time when life was a bit slower. She asks, “Are you happy?” once Clarisse is home Montag responds, “Of course I’m happy.

It is seen here Montag was following Clarisse’s footsteps and that throughout this novel he was trying to follow what Clarisse stood for. This is accomplished when Montag begins reading and vacates his job. Looking back, it can be seen Montag had an appreciation for Clarisse like a mentor. Clarisse influenced Montag to read books and therefore eventually act

Clarisse helps Montag reflect on his life and prompts him to search for meaning and purpose in his life which is shown in the quotation “he wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.” This quotation infers that Clarisse forces Montag to see the truth he has been hiding away from: the fact that he is in fact very unhappy with his life. A mask is something you wear to hide your identity; in Montag’s case, he has been hiding his unhappiness from himself. I conclude that Montag is such a unique character because of the certain physiological, sociological, and psychological traits that he has. Montag at the end of Fahrenheit 451 is a thinker.