Fahrenheit 451

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Fahrenheit 451
Literary Terms of Character Development
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Learning Target

• Analyze how characters develop through their
  interactions with others.
• Key Terms protagonist, antagonist, foil

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Protagonist

• Main character in a piece of literature
• Often overcomes a weakness to achieve a new
  understanding
• May be called a hero if he/she acts with
  courage and strength
• His/her journey is made more dramatic by
  challenges from characters with different beliefs
  or perspectives

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Foil

• Provokes or challenges the protagonist
• The most important foil, the antagonist, opposes
  the protagonist, barring or complicating his/her
  success
• Examples Romeo Montegues foils include the
  following Juliet, Mercutio, Friar Lawrence, and
  Tybalt. His antagonist, or most important foil,
  is who? Why?

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Foils in Fahrenheit 451

• Captain Beatty the fire chief
• key foil and a historian of sorts
• Faber retired professor
• represents a musty, academic link to the past
• Clarisse teenager
• longs for the romantic days of front porches and
  rocking chairs we never ask questions.
• Mildred the model citizen
• lives in a world enchanted by television

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Examine the role of foils in Fahrenheit 451

• Directions Identify occasions when a foil brings
  out dramatic responses from the protagonist, Guy
  Montag.
• Key Questions
• How does the character force Montag to reevaluate
  himself and/or lead Montag toward
  self-realization?
• How does Montags relationship to the character
  change?
• What textual evidence can you provide?

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Character One Captain Beatty

• How does the character force Montag to reevaluate
  himself and/or lead Montag toward
  self-realization?
• How does Montags relationship to the character
  change?

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Character Two Professor Faber

• How does the character force Montag to reevaluate
  himself and/or lead Montag toward
  self-realization?
• How does Montags relationship to the character
  change?

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Character Three Clarisse McClellan

• How does the character force Montag to reevaluate
  himself and/or lead Montag toward
  self-realization?
• How does Montags relationship to the character
  change?

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Character Four Mildred Montag

• How does the character force Montag to reevaluate
  himself and/or lead Montag toward
  self-realization?
• How does Montags relationship to the character
  change?

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Who is the Antagonist?

• Antagonist
• Explanation
• Textual Evidence