Characters
The protagonist’s name
Who is Guy Montag?
What makes this society dystopian and toxic?
What is weird about the houses in the society?
They are all dark and mundane.
What does the use of fire represent?
What is both destructive censorship and the creation of something new.
Montag’s and Mildred’s complicated relationship
Who is Montag's teenage neighbor who enjoys nature and meaningful conversation and is free-spirited?
Who is Montag's teenage neighbor who enjoys nature and meaningful conversation and is free-spirited?
Who is the “family” for Mildred?
The “family“ is a group of fictional characters displayed on large televisions around the house, also known as “parlor walls”. Mildred views these characters as real, and prioritizes them over actual people in her life.
What does the abundance and reliance on technology represent?
What is a society that uses devices to escape reality.
What do books symbolize?
What is knowledge and dangerous ideas.
She is Montag's one-dimensional and technology-addicted wife who betrays him to the firemen.
Who is Mildred Montag
Who is the animal (sort of a character) that intimidates Montag?
The mechanical hound
What is Captain Beatty’s role in relation to Montag?
Captain Beatty is Montag's boss and the primary antagonist. As the fire captain, he uses his own knowledge of literature to confuse Montag and defend the book-burning regime.
What do the large parlor wall TVs show?
What is shallow human entertainment that replaces real connection with people.
What does Clarisse’s character symbolize?
What is rebelling, the danger of having new and individual thoughts.
What relationship that Guy Montag has helps him channel his innermost self, rather than encouraging him to blend in with the rest of the society?
What is his relationship with Clarisse McLellan
Who is resistant to Montag’s rebellion and turn against the societal norms?
Who is Mildred Montag
What moment in the story serves as a crucial turning point in Montag’s perception of the society
The old woman’s house burning down and her choosing to die with her books rather than to escape and survive
What do the seashell radios represent?
What is the governments invasion and control of individual lives through technology.
What does blood represent?
What is the primal, repressed part of humanity.
Who is Faber and what is his relationship to Montag’s?
What is the retired English professor that is a major character in the story, and helps guide Montag to breaking free from the toxic society
The people that Mildred talk to in their house
The family on the television (the parlor walls)
What person was falsely claimed of burning books to normalize what the society was doing and how it operated?
Benjamin Franklin
What do the river and countryside at the end of the book show?
What is true freedom and escape from government, what is life outside of technology and screens.
What does The Hound represent?
What is the oppressive and dehumanizing control of the government.
This cynical and well-read fire captain pushes Montag to the breaking point before being killed with a flamethrower.
Who is Captain Beatty