... a lonely, poor, pitiable, hardship. One of the most complex characters in Fahrenheit 451 is Captain Beatty. Captain Beatty is a book burner with much knowledge of literature seeing as he quotes many famous quotes from classics such as Julius Caesar while he explains to Montag the evils of books. Beatty is obviously a once-was bookworm and now a book hater; all caused by the ... government. Perhaps deep down inside of him, Captain Beatty is denying his love for stories; perhaps he takes his anger out on frying books and burning those who oppose him as a denial ... tool from what he once...

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