The Main Characters

Mildred Montag

Mildred is the wife of Montag. She is one of the main characters who look like having a very hard time and no hope to live. Everyday she tries to kill herself by taking bottle of pills. She is pretty much insane, and addicted with the pills, and tries to suiside. She is driving Montag crazy, and she also is in great pain. She always watches television without thinking because that way she doesn't need to face her life and take care of it. At the end she betrayed the Guy, by ringing the fire alarm to tell the captain that Montag has books.

I don't like Mildred. It's not because she is crazy or insane, I don’t like her because, and she betrayed Montag, which is her husband. She gave Montag hardships all the times, and in addition to that, how can she betrayed her husband? I can't understand her. She never listens to Montag, and just watches television, and take pills that what she does everyday. She has cold heart, hard to be close and unreadable character of all. I think Mildred reveals to us that even though the life is tough, face it first, or else we are going to be like her.

Guy Montag

Montag is the protagonist of Fahrenheit 451. He is one the fireman, burns books to ashes. He is the husband of Mildred, and he, all the times, wanted to have good relationship with her, but that didn't work out very well. He is often confused, frustrated, and overwhelmed by so many conflicts. He is kind of clumsy, and peculiar towards his goal.

He asks lots of questions to the world to find the truth. He always has curiosity to Find out what is the truth because he felt that something was missing in his life. He began to have questions for meaning in the books that he is burning started from when he met a seventeen-year old girl. He was asking to himself, why should he burn those entire books even though he doesn’t know about anything about a book? He is a very deep thinker. He goes through tough times thinking for himself. He is the character who is totally opposite to word ignorance. And later on, he realizes what the truth about the books is and becomes a book lover.

I like him, because he has very special personality compare to others. He has so many questions like me, I like that part!haha; He acknowledges what is wrong and right, and try to get help from others not like stubborn with himself. The character Montag reveals us that we should try to find the truth of something.!

Captain Beatty

Beatty is the Captain of the firemen, meaning he hates books and also people who read books. But one time, he was really passionated about the books, then as time goes by, he got sick of book, and finally led to an anger. And that anger made him to a fireman. He is very negative thinker, for example, he only thinks the negative points about books, and tells everyone to not read a book. He tells Montag about the history of the firemen, telling him with sarcasm, and anger into him. Betty calls books are the worst thing in the world, however he uses his book to control over Montag.

I don't like this character, because he pretends to control everything with his evil heart. He criticizes the society, and gave people a hard time. He is the starter of all the conflict. Everyone knows that he hates the books but he keeps using sentences or story from the books, that's very shame on him and that's why i don't like him at all!! And this character reveals that there must be a person like evil hearted, the conflict starter, and a stubborn person ends up with death!

Professor Faber

He is a professor Montag met in the park. He loves book, and he understands it very well. So he is against the firemen. He scares of firemen, and he is such a chicken. He helps with Montag planning to be a book lover, meaning that needed lots of times and work. He helped Montag with his smart knowledge, and he was so useful. '

It frustrated me, because he was being coward,who would not speak out against book burning when they still could have stopped it. Neither him, he didn’t like himself being such a chicken. At least he was trying to be brave and gave himself courage. But I liked him because he helped Montag and showed his great knowledge about book. This character reveals that people who can speak out with courage will control over the world.

Clarisse McClellan

She is a wonderful and beautiful 17 year old girl who is very unique from other people and sees the world differently than others. And that special world that she sees attract Montag. She is pure and has a lot of curiosity towards the world. She kicked out from the society because of her strange habbits. For example, playing with flowers, and one time she did something about flower and love and made Montag surprise. Also her family is not normal, they are odd like her, especailly her uncle. She shows Montag beauty of our world, and teaches him different perspective to look at our world.

I love this character so much, because even though she is seventeen, she is very mature, and pure like a flower. She is so much different than other character in this story, she is funny, hopeful, cheerful, and I love way she it is! She is positive thinker and also makes me happy as I read. This character reveals being an optimist and positive thinker is very important to live on the earth.