Question 5) What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?
The mood of this novel is dark and sordid because it shows the governments’ irregularities and corruption and the citizens don’t think about what is going on and they don’t even care about it. I find this novel saddens me because ordinary people, citizens, are also corrupted; almost losing their ability to think are care about other people and things, no one having any time for anyone else, no one listens to anyone-they just mind their own businesses. The people in this story don’t know how to interfere or what interference means. Also, because people do not care or interest in others, the government got more relief that there is no one to criticize them even if they lead the nation poorly, and their state of mind of doing nothing but caring themselves lead to citizens not to read the books. The books and newspapers were gone is this story all because the government’s selfishness and fools that do not wanting or trying to fight them. It is sad that people are corrupted as they could be, and without books, the world without books and newspapers is messed up at the fact that there is nothing that lodges the social problem. After all, there are too much murdering and cheating in the society. I remember Clarisse mentioning to Montag that her friends killing each other, shooting, dying with car wreck, and people had to drive a car so fast, that driving slowly became illegal, which is very opposite to now. To think about it, I realized again how and why books are important and they could not be perished as long as people’s society lasts.
2nd blog book- "Lord of the Flies"
1st blog book "Fahrenheit 451"
1 comment:
Like your comment said, it is ture that Montag's world is currupted, and the general setting of the novel is very gloomy and dark. However, I think that the book's mood shifts from being sordid to beautiful and hopeful.Specially as Montag tries hard to protect and save books, with the aid of Faber, those scenes were found to be beautiful in my opinion. One question is, do you think that the people of the book thought that their enviornment was dark and gloomy, like we readers feel? Would they have done something about it? Based on informations about Mildred, I don't know if the citizens of Montag's world would ever do anything about their situation. They have given up, they don't know how to survive other than not thinking and being controlled.
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