Kurt Vonnegut And Harrison Bergeron By Ray Bradbury

Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury are two authors who spread their writings to many different genres. The two men weren't that far in age but their literary work differed in more ways than one. Ray Bradbury was an american writer who wrote literature for multiple genres including fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystical fiction. Ray Bradbury was also known for his novel fahrenheit 451 and his science fiction and horror book collections.kurt vonnegut was an american writer whose career went for over 50 years kurt published 14 novels, three short story collections 5 plays and 5 works of nonfiction kirk is best known for his darkly satirical novel Slaughterhouse. The story Marionettes by Ray Bradbury and Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut jr were alike in the fact they are both fictional stories, they share similarities of characters in the stories that can't think independently and have no control over it. In Vonnegut's story it states, “THE YEAR WAS 2081” which tells you it's a story set in the future liken to Bradbury's selection that speaks about clone robots , which also leads readers to believe that both stories take place in the future.

For example, in Vonnegut's story it states “A buzzer sounded in George’s head. His thoughts fled in panic.” This is evidence of how incapeble the people were of thinking freely. In Marionettes Bradbury doesn't say what time period the story takes place yet Vonnegut states his story is in the year of “2081”. In Marionettes the clone robot said “i've grown quite fond of her” referring to the characters wife and he does this as a turning point in the story to show or give off the idea of you can't even trust