Faber is first introduced in the work as a trembling old man, almost as if he's trying to hide something. When …show more content…
Even so, to properly answer this question, one must first define strength and realize that the state of being strong is not merely limited to military strength. In this way, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451's totalitarian society of controlled information and media intake embodies the counter: an entire population confined to the same thinkings versus one man with the freedom of knowledge.
One may think of a number's game, the more you have, the better. However, when the greater population has the same idealistic beliefs, such as in Fahrenheit 451, does it make a difference in how many ones has? When Montag runs away from the city, he "imagined thousands on thousands of faces peering into yards… like gray animals". Bradbury addresses that the majority in Fahrenheit 451 has a herd mentality, which means one person's ideas are similar to the other and can be easily manipulated, thus making the power of numbers just a