are acting by themselves. "So it was the hand that started it all... His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms... His hands were ravenous" (47). Montag guiltily portrays his actions as an involuntary bodily reflex. These subconscious actions can be quite terrible, for instance, when he finds himself setting his supervisor, Captain Beatty, on fire. This crime is described as automatic and claims it involves no thought on his part. This represents his deepest desires to rebel against the corrupt and unnatural world he is in to find a meaningful way to live. In Montag's desperate quest to define and comprehend his own life and purpose by means of books, he
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