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The four major ideals of Communism, for future reference are as follows: collective ownership of production, centralized government, censorship, and the distribution of goods. He then becomes rebellious to the society and reads books from houses that have broken the strict equality laws. Mildred, Guy’s wife, disagrees with breaking the rules and leaves him soon after he gets involved with it. She is a conformist rather than a revolutionary, as many are in the novel solely because conformity is a more stable life style than risky and rigorous revolutions. Guy Montag, soon after realizing his actions, in which he attempted to reduce turmoil and individualism (which are in vain for individualism is in infinite supply), caused a mass amount of destruction, but overall did not reduce the amount of disorder in the unbalanced equation of life. When having this epiphany, Guy transitions from an internal conformist to an external viewer of the abnormal societal mold he was forged from, hence beginning his decent from utter Communism. In the first section of the novel, The Hearth and the Salamander, Montag meets Clarisse McClellan, a mundane seventeen-year old who shines light on the society they survive in and
