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Conformity Versus Individuality

Mariah Desmarais

Updated Nov. 3, 2011

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Conformity Versus Individuality

Presented By: Katie Bergsma, Morgann Flake, Mariah Desmarais and Gwynn Butler

Setting

"I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other....they don't like me because I'm afraid" (30).

The teenagers are unaware of the negative events that happen around them, causing them to be fearless. They don't accept Clarisse because she has fear, unlike them.

"More sports for everyone, goup spirit, fun, and you don't have to think" (57).

Indiviuality is lost because complex thinking (decision making) is not needed in sports.

"No front porches...people talked too much. And they had time to think. So they ran off with the porches" (63).

They're trying to eliminate the activities that promote the challenging of ideas.

Characterization

"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy...I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise" (35).

Unlike most people in society, Clarisse likes to appreciate the world around her, instead of just being obsessed with the technology and "families".

"She was the first person I can

remember who looked straight

at me as if I counted" (72).

The people in this society don't appreciate each other and they only care about themselves.

"When we were separate individuals, all we had was rage" (150).

Being a close-knit society helps to promote individuality and a society is lost without it.

Figurative Language

"Like all houses it had been

given a thin fireproof plastic

sheath many years ago. And this

preservative shell

seemed to be the only thing

holding it in the sky" (35).

The house symbolize the people and the thin fireproof sheath show that the only thing holding the people together is the fact that they're the same species, which is only a small similarity in the whole scheme of things.

"I plunk the children in school

nine days out of ten. I put up

with them when they come

home three days a month...it's like washing clothes: stuff

laundry in and slam the lid" (96).

It's showing that people in this society are only doing the bare minimum, causing them to be more confined.

"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam... Yet somehow we think we can grow feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality" (83).

Nobody is trying to achieve their true potential. They're living off what others have done before them and this is keeping the society from growing.

Analysis

Thesis Statement

In Guy Montag's society, due to the lack of complex thinking, interaction between individuals, and oblivion to conflicts create conformity instead of individuality.

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(cc) photo by Metro Centric on Flickr

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The acvities that the people participate in do not bring out the individual qualities each person posses and causes them to stay conformed in a world "without" conflict.