Key Moments + (Characters, Themes, Motifs, Dystopia)

Beatty forces Montag to burn his own house and the books

Characters: Guy Montag, alienated protagonist
Captain Beatty: alienated protagonist
Themes: Society vs. Man, fire vs. culture, information vs. understanding
Motifs:Fire cleanses
Dystopia: Montag doesn’t want to burn his house and therefore kills a mechanical hound.


Guy Montag meets Clarisse

Characters: Guy Montag, alienated protagonist
Clarisse, Catalyst

Themes: information vs. understanding

Motifs:

Dystopia: Montag is starting to ask himself deeper questions after meeting clarisse.




Guy Montag watches the old woman and her house burn + reads a line and steals the book.

Characters: Montag, alienated protagonist
Old Woman,

Themes: information vs understanding
fire vs culture

Motifs : fire, fire cleanses

Dystopia: Montag is deeply irritated why someone would die for books, and draws deeper questions.

Montag toasts Beatty with the flamethrower and Flees.

Characters: Montag- Alienated protagonist
Beatty- alienated antagonist
Themes:

-Society vs. Man
-Fire vs. Culture
-Fire Cleanses

Motifs: Fire, seashell

Dystopia- Montag is beginning to put things right.


Mildred tries to kill herself
Characters: Montag-Alienated Protagonist
Mildred, Symbolically representing society

Themes: Medicine vs. Health, Man vs. Society

Motifs:

Dystopia: His wife taking too many sleeping pills.



Mildred tells Montag that Clarisse died after a car accident.

Characters: Montag-Alienated Protagonist
Mildred, symbolically representing society
(Clarisse, Catalyst)

Themes: Man vs. Society, information vs. understanding.

Motifs:

Dystopia: The person he tried to understand has now nothing to say.


Beattys dream about Montag

Characters: Montag, alienated protagonist

Captain Beatty, alienated antagonist (catalyst and enabler)

Themes: information vs. understanding

Motifs:

Dystopia: Beatty tries to convince Montag by arguing that books confuse the thoughts of man, before Montag gets taken to his own house where he hid many books.



Montag and his escape to Faber, while being hunted by television network helicopters.

Characters: Montag, alienated protagonist

Faber, catalyst/enabler


Themes: Man vs. society, (media vs. knowledge??)

Motifs:

Dystopia: Montag is now a criminal and is going against the moral of society.