Fahrenheit 451 Quotes

Are you a bad person if you conform to a dystopian society, without knowing it is wrong? Clarisse McClellan embraces her curious personality, which makes her a rebel. Mildred Montages benighted personality makes her a conventional society member. The curious personality of Clarisse and benighted personality of Mildred show that different people have different experiences in the same society.
Clarisse McClellan’s curious personality makes her rebellious in the dystopian society. Clarisse wonders about things that others would not think about. “And if you look…there’s a man in the moon.” (Bradbury 7) Clarisse looks at effects and wonders why things happen. Others in the society do not stop to look at small details of life. “What do you do, go around trying everything once?” “Sometimes twice.” (Bradbury 19) Clarisse embraces her curiosity, and the nonconformity that comes with it. She knows herself, and know that she is not comparable to everyone else. Given the epigraph, Clarisse would embrace the challenge, and find new ways to approach it, because she has an inquisitive personality.

She does as she is told, because she does not know anything else. “Was it my wife turned in the alarm? Beatty nodded.” (Bradbury 111). Mildred has been brainwashed by society, so she does not know that what she does is wrong. “Mildred backed away as if she were suddenly confronted by a pack of mice that had come up out of the floor,” because she was told books are bad. (Bradbury 63). Mildred conforms to the social order, which punishes thinking. If Mildred were given the epigraph, she would cry, because she would not understand what it means. She would not want to think about ‘rocking the