“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment,” Ralph Waldo Emerson. The quote explains how one must think for themselves and to be true to themselves without the influences of society. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses the protagonist Guy Montag to express how human beings struggle to strive for individualism when society influence limits one to think for themselves. He enhances this idea throughout the novel using characterization, conflict of the story, and symbolism. Fahrenheit 451 is a world where TV is the only entertainment. At school you are not taught anything. Instead, you watch TV, play sports and drive recklessly. Clarisse McClellan is mark insane in her
