Examples Of Free Will In Fahrenheit 451

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Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” Some people choose to believe in fate while others choose to believe in free will. Fate is a power that is believed to control what happens in the future. Free will is the ability to choose the decisions in your life to be whatever you want them to be. One cannot live their life depending on luck or chance which is why free will depicts our future. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the population is controlled and books are considered illegal. Guy Montag is a fireman in charge of burning any book that is found. Montag meets Clarisse McClellan who is actually interested in learning. Throughout the novel, it exposes that Montag has been