Conflicts In Fahrenheit 451

Once again, there are many conflicts occurring in Fahrenheit 451. There are two main ones that I managed to pick up on.

Conflict Number One: Guy vs. Society.
This one is pretty obvious. Just because it's the basis of the whole novel. Guy is being rebellious, and wants to do things his way, while often questioning the society's way of doing things. Along the way he fights his own wife and fire chief, and ends up killing his fire chief with a flame thrower. He does win this conflict by running away after his house gets burned down, and he meets up with a book group who wants to help re-build the city.

Conflict Number Two: Guy vs. Himself.
Thanks to Clarisse, Guy's ideas and views on his own life are questioned. For practically his whole life Guy has burned books, no questions asked. However, he meets and talks to Clarisse, and things get all messed up. Now, he does not know what to do, or who to turn to. He has conflicts within himself on whether to continue burning the books like he is told, or stop burning them and actually read the material he was burning and try and stop the book burning. In the end, Guy wins the conflict within himself as well as he does give in to the temptation of reading the books instead of burning them and burns his fire chief for getting in his way. Plus, the fire chief was going to arrest him after he burned down his own house, but that is completely beside the point. The point being that despite having obstacles in his way and being threatened by a giant mechanical hound, he still listened to his conscience and went with reading the books, which is what I would have chosen if given the choice to burn or read books. It would all depend on the consequences. And Guy read even though he knew it could get him in serious trouble, which it did for a brief period of time.