In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the tone is not necessarily optimistic. Filled with futuristic censorship, the pitfalls of brainwashing, and the outcomes of burning almost every piece of literature known and mostly not known to man kind. These people basically live in a dictatorship, ruled by policed heads of state that brainwash their every move. The characters are deprived of personalities and live in this sort of modern, very futuristic world. The tone can mostly be seen as dramatic. The read is intense and the characters are full of unrealistic qualities and can in no way seem realistic in today's day and age. There have been two atomic wars since nineteen sixty and it is a rather intense story with giant fires, fireman killing people, and intentional, irrational murders sparking up left and right. Beatty himself even becomes a victim of his own fault. (Bradbury 114) This story is not happy or in any way sappy, or optimistic. Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is futuristic and extremely gloomy. This future even had robotic hounds that hunt down people and kill them. Although this kind of reminds me of the movie UP. Which is not exactly relevant, but they both involved talking hounds. The city Montag used to live in is just one big bright spot of fire. This is the only sense of optimism I can find because therefore Montag can return and help pick up the pieces and create a realistic, emotional, book reading society. This is what he fought for the entire time. So with every sense of gloom, war and fire, sparks a new form of optimism. Clearly the policing officials were wrong in the fact that there would be no war, just peace. They could never expect that everything would go according to plan, could they? I know in today's day and world, any one with that impression will always be reminded the hard way that they were wrong. And at that point, there really is nothing they could do much about it.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 2003. Print.
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