Theme Of Archetypes In Fahrenheit 451

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In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there are many examples of Archetypes and evidence that you have many archetypes within a society. One of the Archetypes is the outcast, defined as the character that is banished from a social group for some real or imagined crime against his fellow man, usually destined to wander from place to place. In the novel, a likely crime would be owning or reading books, and also people who possess knowledge that could potentially pose a threat to the government and its security.
An example of “The outcast” in the novel is Clarisse's’ Uncle. When Clarisse first met Montag, she told him about her uncle, saying, “‘My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days.

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