Post on 20-Jan-2018
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Characterization
Guy Montag
• “It was a pleasure to burn.” It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.”
• “You like bowling don’t you Montag ”Bowling, yes.” ”And golf.” “Golf is a fine sport.”
• Revealing the character’s thoughts.
• Letting character speak.
Mildred Montag• pg.52 “Her hair
burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw, her eyes with a kind of cataract unseen but suspect far behind the pupils, the reddened pouting lips, the body as thin as a praying mantis from dieting, and her flesh like white bacon.”
• Physical traits
Captain Beatty• Pg.38 “Once upon a time!” Beatty
said. What kind of talk is that?”• Pg.42 “You can’t ever have my
books,” she said” You know the law,” said Beatty…
• Pg.121 There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am arm’d so strong in honesty that they pass me as an idle wind, which I respect not! How’s that? Go ahead now, you second-hand litterateur, pull the trigger.
• Character’s thoughts and beliefs.
• Character’s thoughts and loyalty towards the law.
• Character’s thoughts about, perhaps his favorite book.
Professor Faber• Looking very old
in the light and very fragile.”
• “There was white in the flesh of his mouth and his cheeks and his hair was white.”
• “His eyes had faded, with white in the vague blueness there.”
• Physical traits/ appearance: he looks old and fragile.
• Physical traits/ appearance: his skin is white.
• Physical traits/ appearance: his eyes are a faded white and blue.
Granger• Pg.148 “We’re used to that.
We all made the right kind of mistakes, or we wouldn’t be here.”
• Pg.152 I struck a fireman when he came to burn my library years ago. I’ve been running ever since.
• Five old men sitting there dressed in the dark-blue denim pants and jackets and dark blue shirts.
• Letting the character speak.
• Thoughts of his mistake.• Physical trait/ appearance:
their clothes.