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Clarisse is a free-spirited young woman in Fahrenheit 451.

“ ‘how did it start? How did you get into it? How did you pick your work and how did you happen to think to take the job you have? You’re not like the others. I’ve seen a few; I know”

From this quote we can see that clarisse bombarded Montag with questions that he would not have asked himself, this shows that Clarisse questions the things that happen around her but Montag doesn’t. Montag goes to work as if it’s a ritual, he never reflects about his actions and their consequences.
This shows that how powerful Clarisse is, as a character who opened the eyes of Montag of the  corrupted society that they are living in.

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Beatty is a very intricate character , as even though he detest books and feels that reading it is useless, he still has a vast knowledge about it.

“ well , Montag, take my word for it, I’ve had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing !”

Through this evidence, it shows that Beatty is very knowledgeable from reading books and uses it to his advantage when influencing Montag about books not holding any value , yet he still hates the existence of it. And doesn’t acknowledge that the books he read puts him in an advantageous position while manipulating Montag

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For each trait and evidence, explain WHY Bradbury has made that authorial choice. Basically provide analysis for the trait and evidence you have chosen. Give insight (how your analysis adds to your ovearll understanding of the text's message) where possible. This should be in post that you have created for that specific trait.

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The hound is a menacing entity in the text that represents the negative and violent side of technology.

'... a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.' -pg 36

Bradbury creates this terrifiying image of the Hound to show readers how violent and opressive technology can be when given over to the negative urges of humanity. From the way the Hound injects its victims with lethal amounts of drugs to how its able to track down its victims so quickly using it's sensors shows how effecient in killing it can be, and is from what we see later on in the text.  Bradbury shows us how technology can be misused if we do not have postive intentsions.

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Mildred is an obstinate character in the text as she refuses to get influenced by her husband’s opinion about books.

“Why should I read? What for?” -95

Bradbury create this character to show readers the negative impacts of technology and media can have on people. Mildred being a victim of technology addiction does not care neither about her surrounding nor her relationship with Montag. No matter how desperate Montag is trying to make Mildred committee to reading, she is still unwilling to listen to her husband’s suggestion. It is also understandable because she is used to a happy society and does not want to disobey it. This characters therefore concretely portrays how influential technology can be in a negative way because people interprets books the same way and are unaware of the disasters.

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Clarisse is someone who has high awareness of her environment and people around her.

This can be seen in the first time she met Montag, before she left, she asked, ‘ are you happy?’

Even though it was her first interaction with Montag, the fact that she was able to sense Montag’s different emotions acted as an irony in the text because of  people usually do not care for one another. Bradbury created this character of a unique personality in the story to show a drastic contrast between the behaviors of the minorities and majorities in the story, therefore reflecting how badly influenced people can be by the politics of their world.  Bradbury made the scene a significant turning point for Montag because he finally accepted his feelings and decided to do something about the corrupted society.

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Clarisse who is a friendly and out-going character , represents life and nature . This is supported by, “I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly.” This shows that Clarisse paid attention to every single thing about nature with interest , which is not a common thing people would do in the society . Furthermore , she has inspired Montag with nature too . Montag thinks about time with her together with weather and the surroundings . To add to that , nature has also helped Montag at the end of the text , the part when Montag was escaping from the city , he “crosses the river which divides the city from the country, the mechanical from natural” Hence , Clarisse is the one who has introduced nature to Montag and has impacted his life .

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Beatty portrayed as a satanic character in the book through how he treats montag by making him burn down his own house.
"I want you to do this job all by your lonesome, Montag. Not with kerosene and a match, but piecework, with a flamethrower. Your house, your clean up."
Beatty wanted to not do the dirty work himself. He is extremely evil and cruel in making montag go through the emotional pain of losing his whole life. Beatty already knew that montag was hiding books and reading them like he used to do when he was younger. Instead of helping and guiding montag he decided to get rid of him and tge books he had been hiding in the worst way ever by making montag burn them.

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Mildred is a lifeless person in the text who doesn't care about her own life and her husband's lives and lives in a fantasy world.
" If we had a fourth wall, why it'd be just like this room wasn't ours at all, but all kinds of exotic people's rooms. We could do without a few things"-pg 30/18
Here Mildred shows how she wants to escape reality through the use of television. With all 4 walls, she could just spend all her time engrossed in watching television and not give a care about anything else in the world. She too doesn't care about montag here as she is selfish about her own needs and doesn't care about her husband who is fulfilling her needs. She is a slave to technology just like the rest of society. This is unlike her husband who thinks about society.

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mildred is portrayed as someone who lives a very modernised and is very up to date. Just like the society, she is addicted with technology till the point where she considers the tv actors as her family. Her spending more time with the tv rather than reality , she is starting to drift away from the world around her.

“He heard the ‘relatives’ shouting in the parlour.” & “ ‘Will you turn the parlour off ?’ he asked. “That’s my family.”

This shows that due to mildred and montag having such a distant relationship, they tend to focus on their personal lives more which to mildred is her parlour. As she spends most of the time watching shows in the tv and finds joy with it, she tends to perceive the tv characters as her family compared to montag. Thus , mildred is really addictive to technology and is in a happy state now due to the indirect company of the tv characters of the parlour.

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clarisse is portrayed as someone who represents purity , innocence and light - heartened character which is very unlike what the people around the society

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Montag who is a fireman , is the protagonist of fahrenheit 451 . Initially , Montag is presented as a content citizen of a world where books are treated as dangerous . This can be seen in the very first line , “It was a pleasure to burn.” However, as the novel progresses, Montag becomes increasingly discontent as he realizes he has been living an empty, unfulfilling life . Hence he starts to secretly keep and read books to find the true meaning in life .

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Montag is a courageous character, where he went against the norm of the society for a better life he hopes to achieve. One of his bravery act was to find Faber to find out the reality of life and why people hate books.

“The numbness will go away, he thought. It’ll take time, but I’ll do it, or Faber will do it for me. Someone somewhere will give me back the old face and the old hands the way they were. Even the smile, he thought, the old burnt-in smile, that’s gone. I’m lost without it.”

It shows how Montag felt lost and would go against the society in order to figure out why. In which, Montag seems to have the courage in wanting to obtain the truth and happiness.

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Montag is a character who starts out as a discontent but generally complacent fireman, he becomes increasingly dissatisfied with his society as he discovers the price of a book-free world.

‘ the only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I’d burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help.’

Bradbury created this character because he wanted readers to realise the value of critical thinking.  When Montag started to question his life and the society he realised that the society was on the path of destruction. He then realised the value of books and gaining knowledge that made him escape from the society to join men that were like-minded.

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Mildred is portrayed as someone who is really self-centred and cold blooded.

“Let me fix your pillow” pg 53

She was trying to get him caught by pretending to be oblivious about the book underneath the pillow, and then finding it and acting surprised in front of Beatty.
It portrays how the society is like too- selfish, only do things that benefits them only, even in the expense of someone else’s life

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Mildred is a pitiful character in the text, who makes use of technology to escape reality and to avoid confrontation of her own emotions. Mildred also represents how some people distract their own problems with the use of technology.

'how long do you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall put in? it's only two thousand dollars'

'sleeping tablets which earlier today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped and empty in the light of the tiny flare.'

Bradbury shows Mildred's addiction to technology through the way Mildred was willing to sacrifice a few things just to get a fourth parlor walls. From the way Mildred almost died, from a presumably suicide attempt, it shows that Mildred may be terribly unhappy in life. Yet, she is unaware of her own feelings and emotions. This may be due to the constant distraction of technology, such as the parlor walls, to keep Mildred away from confronting her own unhappiness and problems. Hence, this makes Mildred a very pitiful character as she's living her life normally, without knowing fully her own sorrow.

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Montag is a character who changes throughout the novel as someone who is seeking for meaning in his life. He tries looking for this through books which is the most illegal of commodities in his society.

' When he was done he looked down upon some twenty books lying at his wife's feet. '

Bradbury creates montag to be the one who explores the meaning of life to show the contrast and oppression present in the novel. Compared to montag, everyone else, excluding faber and granger's group of intellectuals, were oppressed and were kept under control of the government through technology. Montag shows how he discovers  injustice and escapes the society to find another group of like-minded people and they try to rebuild society where they will recreate books and make sure that everyone has access to them. Therefore, Bradbury makes montag a very significant character in the novel because he signifies the journey to revolution in the novel.

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Mildred is a character whose only attachment to the society is the 'family' she has and has a very shallow and materialistic mindset towards her life. She does not believe in relationships and hence, we see the strain in relationship between her and montag.

' Mildred came down the steps, running, one suitcase held with a dream-like clenching rigidity in her first, as a beetle-taxi hissed to the kerb. '

We see how she betrays montag in the end and all she cared at that point of time was that she lost her only source of comfort and escapism, which was the televisions. It shows the heavy reliance Mildred has on technology in the society. She is completely immersed in an electronic world and grows more distant and incompatible with montag as time goes by. She is unable to think rationally and relieves her stress by immersing into the world of media and technology. Therefore, we can see how Mildred is a character that is unable to comprehend her own thoughts and feelings and eventually succumbs fully to the technology in the society after she leaves montag.

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Beatty is a cruel character as in the text when Beatty arrived at Montag's house to burn it down, he insisted that Montag did it himself, and burn down his own house.

" I want you to do this job your lonesome, Montag. Not with kerosene and a match, but a piecework, with a flame thrower. Your house, your clean-up."

Bradbury symbolises Beatty this way as Beatty represents what a model citizen would be like in that society, a fireman who detest books and knowledge and burns them down. Beatty acts as an rival to Montag in the text and was an huge obstacle Montag had to face in order to achieve what he wanted, knowledge and books and in the midst of that process, Montag was cornered by Beatty and was forced to burn the one thing he cherished which were the books and his house in the process which can really shows us how cruel Beatty is in the text.

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Beatty is shown to be condescending.

This can be seen when, "Beatty grinned his most charming grin. "Well, that's one way to get
an audience. Hold a gun on a man and force him to listen to your
speech. Speech away."

With the way Beatty chooses to intact with Montag on this moment makes him appear as condescending as he spoke in somewhat of an irony. In that moment, Montage should have had the power with him having the flamethrower, and yet Beatty still had the 'audacity' to talk back to monatg with such a tone, further more to tell him to carry on as if he still had the power in the position. As if he did not care for what montag had to say, letting Montag speak for the sake of letting out with it having no affect overall, looking down on montag with his monologue being inevitably useless.

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Granger is a valiant character in this text as he goes out of his way to make sure knowledge forever lives on.

“All we want to do is keep the knowledge we think we will need, intact and safe. We're not out to incite or anger anyone yet. For if we are destroyed, the knowledge is dead, perhaps for good. We are model citizens, in our own special way”

Bradbury creates this character to show the readers of how a person would become if they were to choose knowledge in a censored society where books are seen as taboo.Bradbury also shows us Montag’s future through Granger’s attitude and actions as we come to know that Montag and Granger share similarities such as thirst for knowledge and sharing with others as well.

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faber can be seen as a cautious character

this can be seen when, "Montag had only a glimpse, before Faber, seeing
Montag's attention diverted, turned quickly and shut the bedroom door
and stood holding the knob with a trembling hand."

this shows that with faber being quite on edge and his actions done with much fidgeting makes him appear scared and worried for or of something in the moment when Montag interacts with Faber. With the extra tension of the atmosphere helps to show Faber being cautious as he cares deeply for his own wellbeing, probably being afraid of Montag.

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Beatty is very strong willed character as he tries to brainwash everyone around him to thinking that books and knowledge is bad influence on us.

“with school turning out more runners,jumpers,racers,tinkerers,grabbers,snatchers,fliers and swimmers instead of examiners,critics,knowers and imaginative creators,the word “intellectual”,of course,became the swear word it deserved to be.”

Beatty was brought up in a society where books are censored.From reading the text and his speeches,you can tell that beatty was once a avid reader but an event must happen that made him feel differently towards books now.It must have been a very significant event as now Beatty is very didicatwe towards being a fireman and making sure knowledge is not shared between people in the society.He was even willing to burn the old lady together with her books which shows how much hate he has towards books now.Beatty also make sure that no one around him becomes an “intellectual” and dosen’t allow anyone to talk otherwise and as they did,he would burn them to death.

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Faber is a source of help to Montag who was once like Montag except that he did not act to try to change the direction in which society was headed.
"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were it books....The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through radios and televisors, but are not." This shows how strong Faber’s character is because he is the one interacting most with Montag especially through a seashell and give Montag directions. Thus, Faber is like a guide for Montag to follow because he once had experience as a former English professor.

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Granger is brave and has more courage than Montag  to act on his convictions and leave civilisation. This can be seen in, “...We're going to build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them." This shows how Bradbury made Granger a character which only appeared at the end of the book but created a large impact on Montag. Granger is the leader of the “Book People,” the group of hobo intellectuals Montag finds in the country. When Montag met them, Granger was mostly the one leading the conversation and he shared that once the world “ends” he wants to rebuild the whole society and do everything that the society was once against. This shows how powerful his character is because he is confident in the human spirit and committed to preserving literature.

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Beatty is a knowledgeable character who uses his own thinking to brainwash Montag into thinking that books are useless.

“We must all be alike. Not everyone is born free and equal , as the Constitution says but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make”

Bradbury creates Beatty as someone who can easily manipulate Montag with the knowledge that he has. He persistently tries to ensure that Montag knows how bad books are and that they are not helpful to anyone.

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Faber can be seen as a teacher to Montag as he teaches Montag what to do and give home the guidance,reassurance Montag needs.

This Can be seen throughout The whole text as Faber Teaches Montag what to Do using a sea shell and giving Montag The courage.

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Clarisse is seen as a friendly character in farenheit 451
and is The character that make Montag realise that he is not happy

this is seen from "Do you mind if I walk back with you? I'm Clarisse McClellan."

Even though this is The first time that Clarisse meet Montag and fireman is known to be destructive, Clarisse still wanted to talk to him and even walk with Montag back home.Something that a stranger would not Do

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Faber is shown as a passionate man through his care of books.

This is seen from when Montag tears out pages of the Bible in front of him and he reacts protectively. He then goes further on to show his passion by elaborating on the significance of literature.

Faber is a representation of the people who care about books but are afraid to embrace it. His refusal to helping Montag, and then only agrees to help when he sees Montag tearing up the Bible. His passion for literature takes over and he stops Montag. This implies on how he loves knowledge and literature. Hence, Faber shows that knowledge and literature is meant to be treasured and protected.

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Granger is an intelligent character as he used his own scientific methods to get out of danger.

This is seen from, “He held out a small bottle of colourless fluid. ‘Drink this too. It’ll change the chemical index of your perspiration. Half an hour from now you’ll smell like two different people. With the Hound after you, the best thing is Bottoms up.’

Granger knows what he’s doing. He understands how the Hound works and it’s weaknesses too. He understood that changing the smell of the perspiration would throw the Hound off. This shows that Granger has done this before, many times. Probably not just for himself, but for others as well, saving them from the clutches of the Hound. This shows how important Granger is as without him, Montag would not have been able to survive.

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beatty is a complex antagonist in the text that represents how he has the potential to change montag to become just like him, a villain.

‘drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.’ -pg 137

'Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads' - pg 137

Bradbury creates such a complex and terrifying image of a villain in the text, captain Beatty to show the readers what kind of character Montag could have become. From the way Beatty was throwing quotes after quotes at montag, shows how manipulative Beatty can be, in an attempt to sway Montag's determination of saving the humanity. This also shows that Beatty has read many books throughout his life and is very knowledgeable, and may have even used to be just like Montag, determined to change the society. However, Beatty is now portrayed in a very villainous way which shows that if Montag had listened to Beatty, he might become just like him, completely gave up on humanity and prefers to burn down books and all things that provides knowledge.

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Granger is very wise character in the book as he acts as an teacher and a guide for Montag as her entered a new perspective of what life is.

This can be seen in, " We're used to that. We all made the right kind of mistakes or we wouldn't be here."

This shows us how Granger actually went through what Montag did and so when Montag first felt like he wasn't a part of them, he comforted Montag by sharing part of his life experience and how they were similar. This creates a bond between the and gives Granger a teacher figure vibe in Montag's perspective as finally someone in the world can finally understand how he feels from the restless and controlled society that he once lived in. This also shows us that Granger is one of the many professors who studied in society which can represent wisdom and knowledge which is what the society finds an anomaly and is part of the reason why Granger left that society. (Hence we can see that wisdom is meant to be treasured and not just be thrown away like what the society did.) (☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞

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Montag is violent and selfish.

“He slapped her face, he grabbed her again and shook her” pg 86

Shows how he uses force when things don’t go his way. He did not try to empathise with Mildred, to understand how she feels. But forced her to go his way, even though she did not agree to it, she was frightened.

“We’re in this together” pg 86, he assumed and forced Mildred to do it together with him even though she was freaking out and unwilling.

“Her face was paled out and her eyes were fastened wide” pg 86, in this society, it’s illegal to own books, it might even get them killed. They are even taught that books are dangerous. Hence, it explained why Mildred didn’t want to join Montag, because she do not understand what’s so important about books, like how Montag perceived books as. She was just obeying the law. But Montag was just being really selfish and abusive to Mildred, forcing her to read.

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Clarisse is seen as an heroic character who helped Montag become a better person

“No one has time any more for anyone else. You’re one of the few who put up with me . That’s why I think it’s so strange you’re a fireman, it just doesn’t seem right for you, somehow.”

Clarisse knew that the society is corrupted and that rarely anybody communicates with one another because of how technology has changed people. Montag probably didn’t realise how different he was from others thus, Clarisse acted like a wake up call, and that she helped him realise how unhappy he was in life.