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Mood Of Fahrenheit 451

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The setting of this novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is set in a big city like Chicago or New York City. The book was wrote in 1953, but placed in 2053. The mood of this novel is mysterious and dark because there are multiple occasions where very sad things occur. The book is depressing as well. There is a great deal of death that takes place too. Guy Montag is the main protagonist throughout the novel. Montg is married to Mildred (Millie) Montag. He is 30 years old and has been a fireman for 10 years. Montag is a very curious, thinks on his own type of person. ‘“What’ve you got there?”’ (19.) By Montag asking this question to Clarisse you can infer that he is curious about what she’s doing. Mildred (Millie) Montag is married to Guy Montag. Mildred is brainwashed, depressed, and clueless. She is so depressed that she tried overdosing on sleeping medication to get out of the society they live in. She is addicted to sleeping meds and is brainwashed by society. ‘“What? Did we have a wild party or something? Feel like I’ve a hangover. Who was here?”’ (16.) Mildred is completely clueless that she ever took the sleeping pills. Society has totally brainwashed her into thinking that she just got hungover. Society has made her an entirely new person. Mildred is in …show more content…

society. The first conflict erupts when Clarisse asks Montag whether he is happy or not. Montag then realizes that society is against him. ‘“Are you happy?”’ (7.) Clarisse asks him this question so he can question his life to make it better. Soon after this Montag starts learning to understand reading from Faber. ‘“Number one: quality of information, two: leisure to digest it, number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two”’ (81.) Faber tells Montag this so he can understand writing and to know why it was wrote. Lastly, Montag had books hidden in places, he takes them and plants them in other people’s

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