Theme Of Fear In Fahrenheit 451

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“‘[Only I really saw the woman who set herself on fire] And men like Beatty are afraid of her. I can’t understand it. Why should they be so afraid of someone like her? But I kept putting her alongside the firemen in the House last night, and I suddenly realized I didn’t like them at all, and I didn’t like myself at all any more. And I thought maybe it would be best if the firemen themselves were burnt.’” (Bradbury 67). No quote in the novel Fahrenheit 451 can better emphasize the novel's recurring theme of fear. Though the novel's main character, Montag, is the one who shows fear most of the time throughout the novel, this quote is not based on his own fear, but his captains. This novel is set in a unique world where all books are destroyed