Throughout time, humanity has conformed for many different reasons, fear, agreement, and out of habit. But someone had resisted this habit and is on trial for it, his name, Professor Faber. He, in fact, didn’t do so to resist the government, he aided Guy Montag for the purpose of helping him in his quest for knowledge and individualism, Professor Faber has done nothing wrong except had empathy for a fellow human. Meaning that he hasn’t conformed with the rest of society in the same way. The same way as many important figures in the United States history, a multitude have broken laws for the greater good. Despite the fact that Professor Faber had indeed aided in causing a wide scale civil disturbance in his local city in the book Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury.

First off, to understand why Professor Faber resisted conformity we must understand what conformity is and why people conform. Compliance, Internalisation, and Identification are the three basic forms of conformity, each can vary in their dramaticness. First there is Compliance, in this instance the individual is conforming externally in public or while with friends, but privately disagrees. Translating to: a person changes their view, but it is a temporary change. Next there is Internalisation, here a person changes their external opinion to fit in with a group which leads to the individual changing their own internal opinion. Internalisation is one of the deepest levels of conformity. Finally is