Fahrenheit 451 Conformity And Ignorance Essay

“There is no darkness - but ignorance” - William Shakespeare. Conformity and ignorance? Not much of a difference exists. Ignorance is being mindless as of ego. Conformity is being mindlessly happy as of ignorance. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a best-selling dystopian book, provides a crystal-clear illustration of this. Many people in the novel choose compliance, while others choose stupidity. The fight for man's quest for knowledge in a culture that values harmony is explored in the book. Other books from the dystopian genre are included in this essay, dystopian genre is a genre about societies with injustice under the cover of peace and equality. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Insurgent by Veronica Roth, “Tedious Utopia” by Chanti, “Superman

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag, the main character explains and reasons to his wife,“‘You weren’t there, you didn’t see,’ he said. ‘There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there” (Bradbury 48). Their ignorance of the universe caused the death of the world in Fahrenheit 451. Most people there ignored books and went under the full control of the government through propaganda that took over their minds, controlling them. The knowledge is lost over time, causing people not to have common sense. Rebels who wanted to conserve knowledge read books and ran away. Everybody thought these people were poor, took pity on them, and didn't care about them. But these rebels had the most powerful weapon of all: Knowledge, which saved them while destroying the rest of their society. In the book Insurgent by Veronica Roth there are five factions, and one of them is Amity. They hate war, their leader themselves states that “‘It is for the sake of peace that we remain uninvolved’“ (Roth 75). As said, they hate war and stay away from it as much as possible; they live away from society and give their people serums so they all stay in harmony and peace. This is also an example of people living in acceptance and ignoring the world outside. In the book, this becomes extremely dangerous as people begin to do so and

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag at the end thinks to himself, “Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes” (Bradbury 158). Montag is making a new beginning in the city. The people who brought the change by secretly reading and memorizing the books now are safe and will be rid of ignorance in their society. This happens as they change their own ignorant mistake and are ready to rectify the world as they knew it. In the short story “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, Sherman talks about his experience at school and learning, “They were monosyllabic in front of their non-Indian teachers but could tell complicated stories and jokes at the dinner table…I was trying to save my life.” (Alexie 6 and 7). Sherman tells us about how all his other peers who are Indian made the mistake of having over conformity and surrender their personality. He on the other hand made this mistake for a while but, then fixed it. He learned to read at a younger age and didn’t give up his personality to other insecure people. In “2081” by Harrison Tuttle based on the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut. The main character Harrison addresses the mistakes in his society that are based on equality. The smart people have to wear earpieces that scramble their brain processes, the strong have to wear weights, and the beautiful have to wear masks. Everybody is altered in this society so that none are