The Dangers Of Conformity In William Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

Sometimes there are places in the world that rely on conformity and one person realizing they are an individual in the society, where every day it becomes more and more troublesome and dangerous to all that live there. Once that day comes and this one man realizes that he is only a small cog in the machine that is the city, but as most people know if a cog begins to shake loose or is broken the whole machine will come tumbling down with such violence anything in the path destruction it will bring will perish. Basically the machine is a metaphor for what could happen if one person disrupts the somewhat convoluted system . There are points in time where something like this has happened and you can see the aftermath they became free, events such as the Revolutionary War where the American …show more content…
There are many ways to deal with problems, "Real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag, you 're a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later." As captain Beatty had said in Fahrenheit 451, Fire is one way to deal with something it 's not really a specific choice because fire is unpredictable and uncontrollable so you have to be more careful. Dealing with someone that has interfered in your plans is not always super easy it requires a well thought plan of attack so to speak. I have thought up several ideas that would most likely be used if I was in charge of this little town where people were told what to and what not to do. Most likely the first thing that comes to mind is murder and murder is sloppy, really sloppy because it leaves a trail of evidenced a mile long which can be followed and lead the person right to you and have your entire plan ruined because it will cause an uprising most likely and thats no good. While killing someone is an