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Examples Of Dystopia In Harrison Bergeron

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The aspects of a dystopia world is that in a world like that nothing very is perfect. There isn’t any happy about a dystopian world, many things go wrong in a world like that. In the short story “ Harrison Bergeron” it warns us about negative aspects of society. The author gave us a good example of a dystopian world, in this stories it really makes you think what the author is trying to warn us about the way we live our lives. In this short it portrayed the idea showing that a dystopian world isn’t always going to have a happy ending. In this story, George and Hazel are classified to be two different types of people. George is considered to be a very intelligent person and also very strong. Hazel in the other hand is considered to be the opposite of George. Meaning that she isn’t as smart as her husband. Since George was considered to be intelligent, he used a device that was located in …show more content…

Some of the ideas used in Kurt Vonnegut short story was the idea of government control, over use of technology, social media, and the need to be perfect. In today’s world we have twenty seven Amendments in the constitution. In Vonnegut’s dystopian world more than twenty seven amendments are made.“ All this equality was due to the 211th,212th,and 213th Amendment of the constitution” (Vonnegut pg.1). This quote shows that the government taking control of the way we live. TEchnology is a big issue in today’s society, because We used technology when we really shouldn’t be. For example inventors came together with the same syndicated ideas of making a suitcase that follows you around. The suitcase navigates with a gps located in your smartphone. It follows you wherever you go. I've also seen machines that fold your clothes. We become so lazy that we can’t even fold our clothes without the need of any type of computer. Vonnegut uses the transmitters as an example

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