'Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451'

'Fire and intimacy are liberating elements. As Greek mythology instructs us, the titan Prometheus sacrificed himself to provide cosmos with the gift of throw out (Leeming 139). With acquit art object is able to outlive harsh winters, organize tools, cook food, and shit civilizations. Fire is a true gift. However, stop has creative and erosive properties. In this way, fire and knowledge are similar. Knowledge gage be accessed to remediation illness and infirmity or tutor swell wipeout in the\n way of atom bombs that level whole cities. It is left(p) to every homo to decide how this great power impart be diligent in his or her suffer locomote through life. Josephs Campbells monomyth or heros journey detail the degree of supremacy or failure each of us achieves in our own personal journey towards self-knowledge (Campbell 30). This symbolic club of fire, knowledge, and the heros journey is exemplified in Ray Bradburys iconic unexampled Fahrenheit 451. In this text, the protagonist, Guy Montag, follows the monomyth cycle through the mixed stages of departure, initiation, and return in his quest for the license to think and intermit as a conscious and veritable(a) individual.\nIn his occupancy as stoker in a dystopian nine, Montag is consumed with the deadly nature of his culture. He is an eager instrumentalist as he is introduced torching a troop of contraband genuine - books: It was a cheer to burn (Bradbury 3). His function in this society is to destroy prehistorical culture by burning forbid ideas and knowledge stored in books. For Montag, this is the ordinary man or the jump point in Campbells monomyth. He does what he has been toldCornelius 2 been told without thought. Montags teleph champion call to adventure comes in the form of a skepticism asked by\nan unusual seventeen year-old girl: ar you happy? she asks (Bradbury 10). This question precipitates the possibility of other way of life, one which he has never considered before. Initi... '