Comparing Dystopia In Harrison Bergeron And The Lottery

Dystopia is a made up futuristic society that is unpleasant to most citizens living there. The society can be a place where rulers dehumanize the citizens living there. A dystopia can be a place that is filled with disaster or it can be a place where everything is in such proper order that it becomes too perfect. A utopia is a picture perfect place. A utopia can become a dystopia in the blink of an eye. It will look like everything is perfect, but then rulers become overpowering. In many dystopian societies, at first it seems normal and then the audience sees what is happening. When citizens have been raised or have been brainwashed to only know what is happening in their society they think everything is normal. In the short dystopian society,

Some examples of this is in Harrison Bergeron and in the short film called The Lottery. One major characteristic of a dystopian society are through different types of control that a government takes. This could be making the people of a ruled locations lives miserable. They could take away basic human rights that all people rightfully deserve. Another major characteristic of dystopias is people losing their individuality. They do this is many ways. In the film Harrison Bergeron people are treated equally. This happens in a way by placing handicaps on them, for the strong they put on weight, if they were too beautiful they had to put a mask on them. Protagonists of dystopian societies, like Harrison Bergeron and The Lottery live miserable lives. While everyone but the protagonists think they are living in a perfect

In Harrison Bergeron, George Bergeron believes that by following all of the rule given to them everyone can live peacefully in a utopian society. The old man in The Lottery explained that town stuck with tradition. He did not want to think otherwise of the tradition he grew up with. He thought it was all normal. The characters who are antagonists think exactly how the dystopian rulers want them to think. The characters do not think for themselves. In the way that the government was portraying their controls, they made it seem like a utopia. Only the antagonists understood the dystopia that they were living