Fahrenheit 451 Character Analysis

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people would be hurt because they didn’t understand what something had meant. To make the people “happy” they had made everyone else not as smart so everyone was equal and not different. An example of this in the novel Fahrenheit 451 is when Captain Beatty said“ Imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be, “We must all be alike.” “Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal.” Pg.55
In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there were certain characters that were content throughout the entire novel, or for the parts they were in. Clarisse McClellan is a exciting girl whom loves to read and socialize with others in the novel. This is a quote said

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