In the novel Fahrenheit 451, there is a serious issue being handled. The world surrounding Montag and his life continuously rejects the idea of someone being different. The books being burned in the book represent the whole idea of someone thinking differently. No matter what, society keeps on wanting for things to be the same and not change at all. Each individual person prefers to be comfortable with being a copy of what others want you to be at the expense of your own happiness. Once, in the book, Clarisse actually asks Montag: “Are you happy? (Part 1)” to which he can’t actually reply. People even nowadays never ask themselves if they are happy because they are too busy with carrying on and fitting in.
The problem of not fitting in is that the masses have the control of how others see you. If society has a definition of something such as beauty, then that is what others will perceive beauty to be, even if they slightly disagree. This is the case when Clarisse says that even though a “specialist” said she was …show more content…
She was one of the few who chose to be who she truly was and act how she saw proper. She did many things that others didn’t, one of which was to take time to actually think. Society was the main reason people didn’t act the way they wanted, and instead acted the way they were “expected” to. They did a certain oppression of expression in which they all were practically clones of each other, having the same thoughts, entertainment, and even suicidal troubles as we learned with Mildred’s suicide attempt by swallowing too many pills. The conflict of Individuality versus Conformity is one we confront even today. It is and will always be a battle the whole of society and humanity will face time and time again. This book clearly indicated the troubles that this conflict brings upon everyone and how it affects yourself
The problem of not fitting in is that the masses have the control of how others see you. If society has a definition of something such as beauty, then that is what others will perceive beauty to be, even if they slightly disagree. This is the case when Clarisse says that even though a “specialist” said she was …show more content…
She was one of the few who chose to be who she truly was and act how she saw proper. She did many things that others didn’t, one of which was to take time to actually think. Society was the main reason people didn’t act the way they wanted, and instead acted the way they were “expected” to. They did a certain oppression of expression in which they all were practically clones of each other, having the same thoughts, entertainment, and even suicidal troubles as we learned with Mildred’s suicide attempt by swallowing too many pills. The conflict of Individuality versus Conformity is one we confront even today. It is and will always be a battle the whole of society and humanity will face time and time again. This book clearly indicated the troubles that this conflict brings upon everyone and how it affects yourself