Fahrenheit 451 characters

Guy Montag

Guy Montag

A thirty-year-old fireman, Guy is satisfied with his job which involves burning books and houses where they are illegally kept. For many years he has been an illustration of rationality, professionalism, and ignorance. Yet, he is experiencing a growing discontent which ends in a personal crisis...

Clarisse McClellan

Clarisse McClellan

Clarisse McClellan personifies femininity, strange in its parameters in the new post-apocalyptic world. She avoids television and technological innovations that enhance sound or taste. Instead, her family prefers live communication, talking on a variety of topics. She is peace-loving by nature and...

Mildred Montag

Mildred Montag

Guy’s wife is a mediocre and vacant woman with a neurotic behavior and artificial appearance. Living according to the perverted norms of her time, Mildred is a bright example of an average citizen with a shiny smiling veneer hiding misery and depression. She does everything to adjust to the...

Captain Beatty

Captain Beatty

A cunning and ruthless head of the fire department, Captain Beatty is full of paradoxes. He is famous for being the most educated and well-read man in his brigade. Captain finds it enjoyable to burn books and, at the same time, constantly uses quotations from those books. In the past, books were...

Professor Faber

Professor Faber

An elderly academic whose profession is no longer needed as people’s urge for knowledge and intellectual development aren’t welcomed. Faber is trying to cope with authoritative norms in his own way. But even being an avid collector and admirer of books who dreams of enlarging his...

Granger

Granger

Once a writer and now a vagabond living outside the city, Granger is the leader of other intellectuals forced to live as tramps. They call themselves the Book People and one of their tasks is to save books from being destroyed. He meets Guy who has escaped from the police and becomes his third...

Mrs. Phelps

Mrs. Phelps

An ignorant and lifeless friend of Mildred, Mrs. Phelps is another victim of oppression which she doesn’t even know about. The same as other women in the city, she has no emotional bond with the reality spending all of her time on the simulators which substitute anything real. Having been...

Mrs. Bowles

Mrs. Bowles

A woman of her time, Mrs. Bowles is too busy watching television and wasting time on idle conversations. This helps her to distract herself from despair and melancholy she constantly feels. The relationships between Mrs. Bowles and the rest of the family member are disturbing. Her children feel...