Dystopia In Harrison Bergeron And The Sound Of Thunder

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Subject: English 204I 1 Student ID: 140302 Mailbox No: 521 The Theme of Dystopia in Harrison Bergeron and the Sound of Thunder. Harrison Bergeron and The Sound of Thunder are two short stories in which the authors use the same theme of dystopia in creating a futuristic setting. Dystopia is an imaginary community or society that is undesirable and frightening, a community where everyone is scared and lacks freedom. Imagine a world where a dictatorial government seizes diversity, where ugly is known as beauty and intelligence is irrelevant. This is the kind of picture painted in Harrison Bergeron while in The Sound of Thunder, the story makes us realize that little things that seem unimportant…show more content…
The use of the time machine represents a robotic driven society in which concern was shown by the author. The slightest change in the initial stage of a chaotic system can accumulate into a colossal effect. “This fool nearly killed us, but it isn’t that so much, no, it’s his shoes! Look at them! He ran off the path, that ruins us” (Bradbury, 142). When Eckels stepped away from the path and crushes a butterfly, As little as the death of a butterfly, things changed. There was a difference between what he saw before he left and what he saw when he got back. The room decoration changed and the air had a different smell. The presidential position of the United States was occupied by Deutscher instead of Keith. The sign on the entrance changed too, because of his tiny misstep. In Harrison Bergeron, technology was used as a means of limiting the people’s
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