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How Does Harrison Bergeron Create A Dystopian Society
The ideas surrounding utopian and dystopian societies are popular because authors use the context and setting of dystopian novels to voice their opinions about local or global politics. Everyone is seeing the news about black lives matter and how women should have rights and racism and sexism and ageism. But when the authors see the news they’re like,” Oh, I'm going to tell everyone my opinion about racism and sexism and ageism except in the form of a book because that's the only way people will hear me.”Then the authors do write a book and they write in the form of a dystopian novel. That’s why this genre of writing is so popular right now, it’s because people are trying to share their opinions about what would happen if the everyone did get what they …show more content…
It shows it because the evidence was taken from the text and in that part of the text the author was practically speaking to the reader saying, “I, the author of this story think that the laws in my country need to be more strict so they’ll be less chaos and I think it’s stupid that everyone is always competing.” Then through the course of time other more modern authors have seen stories like, “Harrison Bergeron,” and have decided that they want to a dystopian kids with incognito political views too. Not all dystopian writers are writing purely to voice their opinions but there's still some opinion in any book that is written just because that's how humans are, they are very opinionated and it is very hard to completely hide an opinion in a piece of writing. But still the fact that our society are willing to just go and write entire books to voice their opinion, that either means that

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