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Irony in J. G. Ballard's Chronopolis
J. G. Ballard gives us a good idea of the irony in 'Chronopolis' from the very beginning - the actual name 'Chronopolis' - city of time - is an ironic name for a city that has no time Throughout the story Ballard's view of time acts as a focus to the story, around which the plot revolves. The central point of the story is a world without time, without which the story would have no point - none of it would have happened, and it would be just like our world.
The impression of time we are given at the beginning of the story is an ironic one, because it seems that time is important, but not really understood; we are told that Newman is in prison for understanding time - yet while he is in prison he controls the situation because of his knowledge of time, and organises the events of the day for Brocken (the block sergeant); 'Brocken... relied on Newman to programme the day for him'. The fact that Newman is 'serving time' for being obsessed with time is the first instance of irony through language that we are given in Chronopolis. This again brings our attention to the irony of Ballard's view of time, and provokes the reader to look more deeply into the text, thus discovering more about the way time works in the world of Chronopolis.
At this point we do not learn any more about what happens to Newman, but instead the story has a flashback to when he was a child, and became interested in time. In this way the story is anachronistic - it is not in chronological order, and instead it switches between different points in time. This brings our attention to the way time works in 'Chronopolis'. Due to the fact that they have no time, their world is muddled up, and thinks have no real order - and this is reflected in the way Ballard writes the story.
We are then told the story of Newman's childhood, and the way he slowly discovers time and gains an interest in it. Next we are told by Stacey (Newman's English teacher) why time is against the law:
'You can time [someone], know exactly how long it takes him to do something... then you can make him do it faster.
In the story “Love in L.A” written by Dagoberto Gilb, the main character Jake is living his life as a lie. Jake is daydreaming about a better car and life when he causes an accident on the L.A. freeway. Instead of Jake driving away, he decides to face the issue and realizes the person he hit is a beautiful young woman. From there Jake begins to tell lies to impress the women but, the truth was, Jake didn’t have a steady occupation or insurance and his fear of the unknown kept him untruthful. In the fiction story “Love in L.A.”, irony is used because, although Jake dreamed about a better life he wasn’t willing to do anything to change his current life, as well as make better decisions.
In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, irony is often used to convey information and contribute to the overall theme of the novel. Many parts of the book contain this irony because it works well for fueling either the main antagonist or protagonist actions. Fahrenheit 451 is a book based on the ideals of a “utopian society” where books are illegal and burned if they’re found. Firemen are ordered to burn books and all houses that contain them, versus putting out fires and protecting people. In communities people don’t think, they cannot be ‘intellectuals’, and they are forced become drones of the government’s ideals. In the novel Farenheit 451 irony is used to express the complex ideas of the society, but also gives the book more understanding and meaning by making us think differently, how characters are ironically told not to.
The program garnered success by reporting that out of the total 8,000 juvenile delinquents that were exposed to the program, an overwhelming 80% of them remained law-abiding citizens (Shapiro, 1978). The program was even revisited 20 years later in a television special which followed up 17 of the juvenile delinquents that went through the original program. The special concluded that only one of the juvenile delinquents became a career criminal (Muhammed, 1999). Following the success of the Scared Straight program, similar programs were replicated in more than 30 jurisdictions throughout the United States in addition to several foreign countries, including Australia’s Day in Prison Program (O’Malley et al., 1993) , Norway’s Ullersmo Project (Lloyd, 1995), and Germany’s Neo-Nazi Prevention Program (Hall, 1999). Along with their claimed success, these programs gained popularity since they are inexpensive (some programs estimated a cost less than 1 U.S Dollar per participant) and they also provide prisoners with an opportunity to make positive contributions to society (Finckenauer,
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The way that Kurt Vonnegut is portraying the story “Harrison Bergeron” is almost with a sense of mockery. Take Harrison for instance, he’s pretty much super man. Seven feet tall, strong as an ox, good looking, a genius, and an amazing dancer at only fourteen years old. He's also the only person unafraid of overthrowing the government. Harrison's own father wont even take one of the heavy balls he must lug around on his neck out, in fear of getting caught, fined, and thrown into jail. Harrison on the other hand has been thrown into jail for trying to overthrow the government once already. Once escaping prison he declares himself the emperor and then sets out to find his empress. Kurt Vonnegut was trying to portray the supreme man through Harrison.
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