Icarus As A Mythical Creature Called Icarus - 1111 Words

Part 3 8. Beatty had compared Montag to a mythical creature called Icarus. Icarus is a guy in Greek Mythology that got curious and flew too close to the sun with his wax wings, this caused his wings to melt and him falling straight to his death. Beatty had compared Montag to Icarus because both of the characters were curious. They were both curious and got too close to their objects of curiosity, which ultimately destroys them. They were both warned beforehand, and they both chose to ignore those warnings and proceed on. For Montag, he got involved with books, and was about to be burned like Icarus, however he escaped. Montag had his normal life ripped from him and thrown into another world. 9. In the story, Montag had killed Beatty. While he did that, he realized that Beatty had wanted to die. Beatty had wanted to die because he was miserable which is not how he normally acts. It has been hinted in the story that Beatty may have possibly read books before and knows what is going on with the society. Beatty had said that books were empty and are not worth to read it. This shows that Beatty knows that the society he lives in was not as good as it seems, however he did not want to go against the government, so he just does as he was told. This makes him miserable because he may not like burning books that much, but burning books is his job and he has to do it. To die is sometimes the quickest way out of all of your problems, however it is also the most cowardly. 10. It