Fahrenheit 451: Self Identity Theming

Happy Thanksgiving! Theme is the topic of this post and after finishing Fahrenheit 451 a little over a month ago I can safely say that I see a BIG theme of Self Identity. The whole story the audience is following along with Guy Montag and we find that Guy thought that he knew himself and what he personally wanted. He was a firefighter and was totally against the idea of books, but after he has a unique experience with the books we see that he truly doesn't know himself. Throughout the ending of the story he completely makes a u-turn on his believes and attitudes toward life. Now he is fighting on the book side and saving them from the firefighters and the government.

"He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other." (Page 21) Even early on when he first met Clarisse McClellan he was experiencing this change in himself that he never experienced before.

Another example of the theming of self identity is this quote from page 81, "Montag leaned forward. "this afternoon I though that if it turned out that books were worthwhile, we might get a press and print extra copies-". The Montag of the beginning of story would have never said something like this nor acted the way he did towards the end of the book. But now he is truly finding himself in his discovery of the goodness of books.

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