Individuality Are Represented In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Analyze how Conformity and Individuality are Represented in Fahrenheit 451

We often feel like we are insignificant in the world. Out of over seven billion humans on this planet, how much of a difference can one individual honestly make? In Fahrenheit 451 that difference is very significant. The power lies in the individual and a lack of individuality or conforming to the point of being indistinguishable means that all of said power is wasted.

First off, individuals are shown at multiple points in the novel making big changes simply by being themselves. Ray Bradbury shows us this throughout the novel with Clarisse being one of his biggest means of doing so, all the while doing so through casual characterisation through what seems like insignificant talks. “Have you ever smelled old leaves? Don’t they smell like cinnamon? Here. Smell.” (Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 29). Clarisse makes a huge

Oftentimes some issue or trend will emerge and most of the forms of media jump on it to make a big deal of it and demonize things that are perfectly fine. Things that would sometimes even be beneficial to society. Bradbury tries to make the reader understand this with lines such as this, "Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag.”(Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 ___). It is talking about how anything that can be viewed as wrong is not stood up for as people fear being seen as the outcast who supports something that the media and other’s have demonized regardless of whether or not the majority actually thinks ill of it. Suppressing these differences is the first step towards losing individuality and becoming conformed like the populace in Fahrenheit