Individuality In Fahrenheit 451

Few people in the world choose to stand out instead of trying to be like everyone else. In Fahrenheit 451, most people are the same because no one ever thinks about anything and their world moves so fast. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, the author uses characterization to show the individuality and sameness of the characters.
Bradbury uses characterization to show how the firemen are the same. Montag begins to notice how all the firemen look and do the same stuff as him. Montag thinks to himself, “Had he ever seen a firemen that didn't have black hair, black brows, fiery face, and a blue-steel shaved but unshaved look?” (Bradbury 30). This quote shows how Montag starts wondering why everyone is all the same and how certain people don’t change a thing. All the firemen wake up everyday with the same thoughts and to relive the day before. T hey never change that routine.
Sameness is shown through characterization

multiple times throughout this novel. Mildred and her friends all sit around all day doing nothing but watching the parlor as they do everyday. In the novel, Montag looks around at Mildred and her friends and begins to say to himself, “So it was now, in his own parlor, with these women twisting in their chairs under his gaze, lighting cigarettes, blowing smoke, touching their sun-fired hair and examining their blazing fingernails as if they had caught fire from his look” (Bradbury 92). The women never think of doing other things. They all get so caught up in the distractions, they never worry about what is going on around them.
One point in this novel, Montag finally sees that everyone is kind of the same, so he wants to change and be different.

When Montag meets Clarisse, his neighbor, he starts to notice that there is more to life than burning books. Montag states, “Last night I thought about all the kerosene I have used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of those books” (Bradbury 49). It begins to bother Montag that all he has done for the past years is burn books. He starts to rethink his whole life, and how he has been living it. Montag goes on to say, “It took some men a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life and then I come along in two minutes and boom! It is all over” (Bradbury 49) Before, Montag never cares about what he has been doing to the books, but when he begins to ignore the distractions and really think about life he starts to notice that he has been destroying some other mans work. Montag begins to think more of the world

now.
The author, Ray Bradbury, uses characterization to display the individuality and sameness of the characters throughout this novel. The firemen that Montag works with do not ever change how they live because they never look past all the distractions. Mildred has never thought twice about the world, and neither does Montag until he meets Clarisse McClellan. People should never want to be just like everyone else. Stand out and be yourself.