What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?
The mood of this novel changes through the scenes but the main mood is very disoriented, menacing, tense, and depressing. The mood enhances when it comes to the climax of the novel, when Montag kills his captain. I think the elements which make the mood overall depressing and tense are because Montag is doing what he is not supposed to do and later he is on a run; so the story stimulates the readers to be strained. But in the beginning of the book when Montag met Clarisse, it felt mystique and a little bit of disharmonious because there were two people who were very different from each other, talking about their life.
This novel is a futuristic novel of United States, so it means that it could actually happen, not to us, but later in the future when our descendants would be living. When I thought of this concept, it made me sadden because it would be crazy to live in a world like in Fahrenheit 451. In this novel, everything is so harsh and it is a tough world to live in. I could see it really harsh when Clarisse said that the sign board of the stores were getting longer and longer because everyone is driving a car so fast that they can’t see the signboard if it’s too small since they go pass the stores so fast. Montag’s world was lack of conversations and they didn’t even care for their own family. One of Mildred’s friends, Mrs. Phelps, said that her husband is in the army and there is going to be a quick war but Mrs. Phelps told them that she isn’t worried about her husband. If a time this cold like Montag’s world comes, it would be a big problem for people to face.
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I agree very much about the story of billboards that they needed to be longer so that people could not pass by without noticing. This part, was one of the evidence that made me think that the world in “Fahrenheit 451” is very different. I thought, “The world is crazy here. What happened to the world?” We would have a punishment for driving too fast, but on the contrary, the law of the world in this story punishes people if they drive too slowly. The standard of driving speed in the story is faster than illegal speed of today’s law.
I would also say that the mood is very dark in the mass. I hardly had a image of a day; most of my images were drawn as a night and a smoky, cloudy, and rainy day. Come to think of it, the only part that was bright was when Clarisse first appeared in the story. The mood of the story was already dark to me, and when I read the part when Clarisse said about the things she had heard from her uncle and her point of view to insignificant objects, it was like seeing a speck of light swaying unstably trying to survive in harsh circumstance of unlimited darkness with hope.
In many ways I agree with the ideas you have presented. I also felt very depressed while reading the novel and I really do fear for the future of the next generation because there are always the chance of the event in the novel becoming a realality. However, ther were points that I i have different views of. I think such attitude that Mrs.Phelps has are the same as many people of today with all the divorces and prositution going on in the world. Furthermore, I do no think the mood enhanced after the climax.
But over all I really enjoyed reading your point of view of the novel (or atleast the mood of it).
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