Tuesday, February 5, 2008

My 3rd Post!

Now, the climax of Fahrentheit 451, I think is, when Montag burns Captain Beatty to death. He killed Beatty and left him dead. He supposed he had to, and I guess that was well done. But, thinking that the Captain wanted die, I think that was a bit over-reacting, sort of trying to avoid the reality of things. I think that needling people would be one of Beatty's way of getting people to do what he wanted them to do. Beatty was a persuader. He uses his voice. Sort of like Saruman in The Lord of the Rings. So after Montag killed Beatty, he hurt the two other firemen who were with Beatty, and lost one of his legs while he was fighting with the Hound, a mechanical robot which kills people and animals which it is programmed to kill by injecting something into them. After the climax, he succeeds in running away and meets the nomads. He regrets everything, everytime he just lived on, not thinking nor feeling about anything in his life till the very moment he started to read books. So there's my thoughts about the climax.

1 comment:

Jane Lee said...

I totally agree with your climax~. It is when Montag kills Beatty right? Well, Beatty did deserve to die, like you said. And I also agree in saying that the captain wanted to die. If I was the captain, I would not have been saying these weird quotes and telling Montag to push the trigger, not if I had wanted to die. He just kind of stood there.
But did Montag really regret everything after he started to read the books? I don't remember reading that. Anyways, nice analysis