Professor Faber - The Cowardly Revolutionary
Faber plays an important role in helping Guy discover himself after Clarisse dies and can no longer pass on her innocent wisdom to him. Faber is a "coward" that did not "[speak] up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty' ... and thus became guilty [himself]" (Bradbury 78). However, Montag's willingness to act pushes Faber to help and thus to become a voice in the ear, much like another conscience of Guy Montag. It is interesting that Faber uses the very technology that ruined the society, the ear-thimbles, to fight back. This shows the ambivalence of everything human, the objects created by man can be used for good or evil. Faber also signifies resilience and underground resistance through stoicism. He does not revolt openly against the rules, but he refuses to abide to them.
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"So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless."
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