Medi Altakawy Altakawy 1 Ms. Kurtz
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2 October 2013 War Against Society

In this modern society we as people interact and witness other people to have a better understanding of themselves. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 the main character Montag is still in a slump trying to find his personality. Three of Montag’s many personalities that will be said throughout the essay are rebellious, courageous and anti social. Bradbury uses Montag’s apprehension of both Mildred and Clarisse as an indirect way of conceding Montag’s personality.
Montag throughout the book was not all that courageous. At first he was with the crowd not really having his own mind, society was his mind. He was brainwashed by society and by all the technology that surrounded him. When Clarisse tells Montag “They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I wont tell them what. I’ve got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?”(Bradbury 23). This shows what Montag wants to be and at the end of the novel he does change into surveying the area and his surroundings and to really understand that the world is beautiful, not something to just look briefly at.
When Clarisse says that Montag goes through his own courageous journey into trying to be more like Clarisse and less like Mildred. Clarisse is like a sunny day and Mildred is the juxtaposition of that. When Montag walked in on her “Her face was like a snow-covered island upon rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which cloud might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow”(Bradbury 13). This shows that Mildred is cold and the opposite of Clarisse. When