In the book Fahrenheit 451, the use of fear is a large part of what happens in the book. The use of this fear can contribute to many of the things wrong in the book. Such as a society which rejects the knowledge of the past. So much so that a person who dares challenges this society will loose there house. I feel that the book was used not to spread the idea that Communism was bad, rather that a totalitarian society is wrong. Also that people need to change society, they don't need to be special. This can be seen when Faber takes it to himself that he should be the one who fixes the world by starting to print books again.
This shows the multiple perspectives in the book, such as the fact that in the book Faber lives a life of fear, while Montag just wants to change things and doesn't care how. It seems that throughout the book, others who may appear as a 2D person, may actually be more than just that. Such as the head of the fire department, he seemed just to be a man who was doing his job, but in the end, he seemed different. He seemed to know that what he was doing was wrong, and didn't know what to do.
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