Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Harrison Bergeron

Kurt Vonnegut is trying to tell us that we are becoming too advanced and eventually our world will be similar to what he has described in his short story, Harrison Bergeron. This story argues that eventually we will not be free that there will be so many laws every way we turn to stop us from doing anything we want to. It also argues that if we believe what ever the government tells us then we are for sure doomed. Most of the theme is despair and joy. It is despair because of the communist government that has been established making everyone miserable. Joy, because it ends and there will be a new free government. Not exactly because a little of this was fantasy. It doesn’t need to be because it all balances out with certain scenes in the story. It is told in first person. It would be like if you were the narrator and in the story telling someone else. Because now you can be involved in the story and you can imagine what it would be like and it’s not so boring. Two sympathetic critics of Vonnegut’s work, Karen and Charles Wood, have said of his stories. The two main characters that are mostly talked about in this story are surrounded by all kinds of technology and yet are held back by all sorts of things. The man is really smart but wears an earpiece to keep him from thinking.

1 comment:

Rory said...

Break into paragraphs!

Some fragments.

Some solid analysis, but you digress a little too much. Don't use "you."

Lacks focus!

Glad you found the spell-check function in blogger.