Scarlet Letter

The main conflict is man verse society, between Montag and his society. The society decided that all men should be equal and therefore have equal knowledge and due to this destroy all books. Montag's opposition to the society and his opinion of what he thought was right conflicted with the ideas of his society. Since he could not exist in such a society without being persecuted, it caused him to flee for a new, more free life. This decision also helped lead to his destiny.
             The plot of the story was also a literary element in which Bradbury used that helps support the ideas of Markham. The plot of the story shows when Montag decides to steal the book to see what was so bad about them, and then to flee when being persecuted by the mechanical hound and Beatty. Those decisions that happened during the plot, led to the fulfillment of Montag's destiny. In fleeing instead of submitting to the firemen and government, he achieved safely, when the city was blown up in war. His destiny was found as then, he was able to survive and live to spread the knowledge to others.
             The second of the two novels was Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the novel unlike Fahrenheit 451, the destiny of the characters is described in the book due to the choices prior to the book, as opposed to describing the conditions that led to the decision and ending with the beginning of their destiny. In the novel, the setting was a major cause of the decision that Hester and Dimmesdale made that would lead to the rest of their life's destiny. Hester was alone in the colony all by herself since Chillingworth had not come alone with her. That being a main reason for why she and Dimmesdale had an affair. The setting also would lead to the destiny caused by that one decision to have an affair. The puritan society and their judgmental ways had caused Hester to live a life of solitude, remorse and shame, which was her destiny in life because of her decision to be an adulteress.