Fahrenheit 451 Individuality Analysis

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Individuality created conflict in the culture of the novel Fahrenheit 451, and the government trying it’s best to demolish any individual who tried to go against the law. In the novel, individuality is not accepted because it gave people the ability to question certain actions that were not right. Everyone lived off conformity, people were not supposed to question what they thought about things, like Clarisse explains to Montag that people did not quite seem to talk about anything interesting. With individuality society is able to be different, to think out side of the box, to create new ideas, and become a diverse community, but in the novel it wasn’t viewed in a right way because it would rot society’s minds. Fahrenheit 451 portrays an idea

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