Summary Of Kurt Vonnegut: A World Without Competition
Vonnegut has created a world without competition, without a driving force for greatness, and without a tool to motivate ambition. However in this non-competitive culture no one seems to care that they have been stripped of such an amazing tool to success. When George, the genius father to Harrison, replies to Hazel, the dimwitted wife to George, about not having to compete with anyone at home he says, “‘And pretty soon we’d be right back to the dark ages again , with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn’t like that, would you?’ ‘I’d hate it,’ said Hazel” (301). It is evident that George and Hazel have totally given up on the idea of competition and even have come to hate it. When George says “You wouldn’t like that, would you?” and when Hazel responds with, “I’d hate it.” it informs the reader to how these two characters have
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For this complete and utter equal society of 2081 competition would be a terrible thing to reintroduce. Their sense of equality would be shattered, and the constant shared feelings of either pain, fatigue, or sadness would be eliminated. Although reintroducing competition would have good attributes it would also bring all of its negative attributes such as stress, anger, and depression. These qualities would surely bring about the terrors of the “dark ages” again. Hazel stresses this ideas of the a world without competition is better than a world with, when she responds to Georges question by saying, ‘“Reckon it’d fall all apart”’(301). Through qualities like anger, stress, and depression that are all results of competition, a society like 2081 would most definitely fall apart. Due to these results of competition and others like it, competition should most certainly should not be reintroduced for the sake of the society’s current
For this complete and utter equal society of 2081 competition would be a terrible thing to reintroduce. Their sense of equality would be shattered, and the constant shared feelings of either pain, fatigue, or sadness would be eliminated. Although reintroducing competition would have good attributes it would also bring all of its negative attributes such as stress, anger, and depression. These qualities would surely bring about the terrors of the “dark ages” again. Hazel stresses this ideas of the a world without competition is better than a world with, when she responds to Georges question by saying, ‘“Reckon it’d fall all apart”’(301). Through qualities like anger, stress, and depression that are all results of competition, a society like 2081 would most definitely fall apart. Due to these results of competition and others like it, competition should most certainly should not be reintroduced for the sake of the society’s current