Harrison Bergeron: Dystopian Fiction
The movie” The hunger games” by Gary Ross , and the story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut share a lot of similar characteristics of dystopian fiction, unlike their counterpart “ There will come soft rains” by Ray Bradbury. Which is a short story that is written under the dystopian fiction, but is quite different compared to the other two. Both “the hunger games” and “Harrison Bergeron” share some of characteristics that clearly define a dystopian world such as lack of individuality, Protagonist questioning the society and lastly society lacking democracy. This is compelely opposite to “there will come soft rains”.
First of one of the main things in any dystopian fiction, that stands out compared to many other style of writing is lack …show more content…
Katniss Everdeen from the hunger games always questions the society she lives in, her most important contribution was her rebellion mindset at the end of the movie when the capital forced her and Peeta into kill each other and the survivor would be noted as the winner, but Katniss and Peeta decided to rebel against the capital by threatening to commit suicide with Peeta and force them into changing the rules to have two winners instead of one. In ‘Harrison Bergeron” the protagonist Harrison Bergeron has very rebellious attitude towards the society and government, He believes everyone should live without any limitation as shown by him freeing the musicians and the ballerina to dance with. His most important act of rebellion was when he broke all of his handicap devices on live television to show that he does not believe in the current society views and laws. On the other hand “ There will come soft rains” has a lot of technology and everything is controlled by it for example everything in the house is timed and perfectly executed by technology and the house seems to be owned by a wealthy family proven by the original Picasso painting on the wall showing the society seemed to well advanced and lacking of anything that make it …show more content…
Democracy just doesn’t exist in a dystopian society and both “ The Hunger Games” and “ Harrison Bergeron” are prime examples of society that lacks democracy. Both of the societies are ruled under a totalitarianism government. In “The Hunger Games” the capital rules everything with little to no consideration for the people, that is especially shown in the part when Katniss’s little sister was chosen as tribute for district 12, she was going to be forced to compete in a annual event in which she has to fight for her life against other bigger and stronger opponent, but Katniss intervened to volunteer as tribute to represent her district instead of her sister. The capital also does not give any district or person any sort of power to elect or change the ruling government. Over in the “Harrison Bergeron” side, things are bit more silent, but still as bad. The government in society has slowly made changes to the constitution to give itself high powers and rule over people in totalitarianism style which is evidenced by the all the handicap devices it’s using to have a upper hand on peoples life in the hopes of achieving equality but punishing and torturing people. “There will come soft rains” is quiet different there is solid evidence to show that the government pushed for a totalitarianism
First of one of the main things in any dystopian fiction, that stands out compared to many other style of writing is lack …show more content…
Katniss Everdeen from the hunger games always questions the society she lives in, her most important contribution was her rebellion mindset at the end of the movie when the capital forced her and Peeta into kill each other and the survivor would be noted as the winner, but Katniss and Peeta decided to rebel against the capital by threatening to commit suicide with Peeta and force them into changing the rules to have two winners instead of one. In ‘Harrison Bergeron” the protagonist Harrison Bergeron has very rebellious attitude towards the society and government, He believes everyone should live without any limitation as shown by him freeing the musicians and the ballerina to dance with. His most important act of rebellion was when he broke all of his handicap devices on live television to show that he does not believe in the current society views and laws. On the other hand “ There will come soft rains” has a lot of technology and everything is controlled by it for example everything in the house is timed and perfectly executed by technology and the house seems to be owned by a wealthy family proven by the original Picasso painting on the wall showing the society seemed to well advanced and lacking of anything that make it …show more content…
Democracy just doesn’t exist in a dystopian society and both “ The Hunger Games” and “ Harrison Bergeron” are prime examples of society that lacks democracy. Both of the societies are ruled under a totalitarianism government. In “The Hunger Games” the capital rules everything with little to no consideration for the people, that is especially shown in the part when Katniss’s little sister was chosen as tribute for district 12, she was going to be forced to compete in a annual event in which she has to fight for her life against other bigger and stronger opponent, but Katniss intervened to volunteer as tribute to represent her district instead of her sister. The capital also does not give any district or person any sort of power to elect or change the ruling government. Over in the “Harrison Bergeron” side, things are bit more silent, but still as bad. The government in society has slowly made changes to the constitution to give itself high powers and rule over people in totalitarianism style which is evidenced by the all the handicap devices it’s using to have a upper hand on peoples life in the hopes of achieving equality but punishing and torturing people. “There will come soft rains” is quiet different there is solid evidence to show that the government pushed for a totalitarianism