A dystopian society is should not be a good thing. People believe that a dystopian society can be good, but a dystopian society is mostly about controlling. This dystopian societies can also be described as utopian societies. It's where they hold many desires, and ideas of perfection. Even though everyone is the same and treated the same, why you be like everyone else? The reasons that a dystopian society is not a good thing is because everyone are treated the same, everyone is controlled by one leader, and also because there is not freedom of any kind. A reason that a dystopian society is not good is because everyone is treated equally. Sure it's good to be treated the same but doing the same thing like everyone else, it's not. In the story of "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in lines 1-8, "Nobody was smarter than anyone else. Nobody was better looking than anyone else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anyone else." These lines say that they were a dystopian society where everyone would think and do the same. Nobody was allowed to be better, quicker, …show more content…
or stronger than anybody else. Being the same gets boring and it's dull. You're not able to be yourself or do express yourself. Where there is a dystopian society, there is a leader who controls everyone and everything.
In a documentary video “Inside undercover in North Korea” by Lisa Ling, the leader of North Korea, which was a dictatorship, was treated like a god. Even though they are isolated by everyone outside of the country, they believe that their leader is their savior and that without the leader with them they can't survive. When they are born they are trained to love their leader without any judgments or any concerns about it. That way North Korea are easily influenced to do what the leaders says to. Just like in the story “Harrison Bergeron”, the society is controlled by the Constitution and also by the United States Handicapper General. They believe that everyone should be equal and nobody should have any higher quality. These societies are a utopian society. These two societies are holding ideas of a perfect
society. Being in a dystopian society means there's no freedom of any kind. In the story of "Harrison Bergeron" in lines 17-19, "And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by the law to wear it at all times." This means that he wasn't able to think on his own. Just because of his intelligence was above normal, he was considered as a handicap. By using a handicap radio this meant that he wasn't going to be able to think by himself just because he wasn't able to think like everyone else. In the video documentary the people are influenced from birth. Their minds were manipulated as they would grow in North Korea. A dystopian society would control you and manipulate your mind. These societies would hold ideas of a perfect society. In “Harrison Bergeron”, they were controlled by the Amendments of the Constitution. In the video documentary, everyone’s minds were manipulated from birth. This are the reasons that a dystopian society is not a good thing is because everyone are treated the same, everyone is controlled by one leader, and also because there is not freedom of any kind. Why be the same like everyone else and controlled by a dictatorship, when you can live as you wish and be yourself.
Equality appears to be the ideal factor that can perfect a society. It eliminates the need to feel envious of any human or their qualities. Nevertheless, with impartiality comes lack of diversity and ambition. Inequality is the entity that provides individuals with the passion to strive for a better life. If everyone has already reached their full potential there is no purpose for living. The short novel “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut presents a futuristic portrayal of a world where everyone is equal in every way possible. In “Harrison Bergeron,” Vonnegut displays the clear flaws in society that lead to the creation of a horrific dystopia that lacks genuine human emotions, fails to develop as a civilized community and is strictly government
To begin, the culture in this dystopian society is greatly different than our own. First, thinking is greatly looked down upon in this society. Every aspect of the world is designed
What would happen to the world if everyone in our society was equal in every aspect? Would this create utopia or hell? In this short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. America has finally achieved full social equality, and living up to the first amendment fully. In this futuristic society, handicaps force this equality, the strong, the beautiful, the intelligent are forced to wear weights, masks, and headphones. These constraints force equality among the American people from beauty and brains, to strength. Harrison is the symbol of defiance and individuality, and represents the aspects of the American people that still want to try hard, out do their peers, and show off their attributes. The story criticizes the policy of equality
Society will never be perfect. Equality will never be sustained. A dystopian society will always have corruption of government. Corruption is present all around the world but is swept under the rug. Abridgment of human rights happens every day in our country or another. Oppression is the cause for all the sadness in our world. There will be always selfishness in dystopia. One must sink for another to rise, but “good doesn’t mean good for everyone. It means worst for someone.”
Have you wondered what the world would be like if everyone was forced into the government’s opinion of equality? In Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s story “Harrison Bergeron”, it is the year 2081 and the government has altered the society into being physically and socially equal. The most charming people are left to wear hideous masks, the intelligent are to be equipped with a earpiece that plays ear piercing noises, and the strong people have to wear excessive heavy weights so they resemble the weak. I believe that the society of “Harrison Bergeron” is not truly equal, because no one can be changed unless they want to be.
Imagine a chaotic society of people who are so entangled by ignorance and inequity that they do not realize it; this would be called a dystopian society. Dystopian societies are very popular among many fictional stories. In fact, in the stories Fahrenheit 451 and “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, dystopian societies are represented. In many of these stories, the people in the fictional societies are violence-loving, irrational people who always seem to do what people of the U.S. society would consider "immoral." These stories are not a representation of how the U.S. society is now, but how it could be in the future. Unlike the society of Fahrenheit 451, the U.S. allows people
1984 demonstrates a dystopian society in Oceania by presenting a relentless dictator, Big Brother, who uses his power to control the minds of his people and to ensure that his power never exhausts. Aspects of 1984 are evidently established in components of society in North Korea. With both of these society’s under a dictator’s rule, there are many similarities that are distinguished between the two. Orwell’s 1984 becomes parallel to the world of dystopia in North Korea by illustrating a nation that remains isolated under an almighty ruler.
Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian fiction, or a type of fiction in which the society’s attempt to create a perfect world goes very wrong, “Harrison Bergeron” was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1961. This story is about Harrison Bergeron, who is forced to diminish his abilities because they are more enhanced than everyone else’s. This short story is an allusion of a perfect society and it is maintained through totalitarian. The author expresses his theme of the dysfunctional government of utopia through his effective use of simile, irony, and symbolism. Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential American writers and novelists, and his writings have left a deep influence on the American Literature of the 20th century. Vonnegut is also famous for his humanist beliefs and was the honoree of the American Humanist Association. “Harrison Bergeron” is about a fictional time in the future where everyone is forced to wear handicapping devices to ensure that everyone is equal. So can true equality ever be achieved through strict governmental control?
An impartial society: Utopia or Hell? What would happen to the world if the people were literally equal in every aspect of their lives? In the futuristic short story, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., the world is finally living up to America’s first amendment of everyone being created equal. In this society, the gifted, strong, and beautiful are required to wear handicaps of earphones, heavy weights, and hideous masks, respectively. Thus, these constraints leave the world equal from brains to brawn to beauty. With the world constantly pushing for equality among people, Vonnegut reveals a world that society is diligently working toward. Through this foreshadowing of the future, Vonnegut attempts to
Never would I thought that we have a dystopian-like society in our world. Don’t know what a dystopia is? It is a society set in the future, typically portrayed in movies and books in, which everything is unpleasant. The novel Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut is a dystopian story of a fourteen-year-old boy named Harrison who grows up in a society that limits people’s individuality. When he is taken away from his parents, because of his strong idiosyncrasy, his parents do not even recall his presence because of the “mental handicaps” that the government forces onto them. Harrison eventually escapes from his imprisonment and tries to show others that they can get rid of the handicaps and be free. Though the government official, or Handicapper
A dystopian society is basically a utopian society gone wrong. Also when a society tires being ‘perfect’ but there is always someone or something that is not happy with it, which means that eventually every utopia would be a dystopia. A dystopian society can nearly wreck people inside and out. Some words to describe this society would be surveillance, inhumane, oppressed, ignorant, and tyrannical. Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury is an example of a Utopian Novel as seen through Montag, Beatty, and Mildred.
The short story “Harrison Bergeron”, by author Kurt Vonnegut, embodies the characteristics commonly correlated with dystopian literature. Vonnegut conjures “a futuristic, imagined universe” as “THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal in every which way.” (Vonnegut 1) The first line of the story informs the reader that “Citizens conform to uniform expectations” and “Individuality and dissent are bad.”(ReadWriteThink 1). Everyone in the world of “Harrison Bergeron” is “equal”, as anyone with an intellectual standing higher than “average” is forced to wear a “little mental handicap radio”(Vonnegut 1) that disrupts the flow of thoughts after a certain period of time. This setting expresses a place where “Information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted.”(ReadWriteThink 1), which is a typical dystopian setting.
I believe everyone has an ideal of a perfect society. No one wants to live in a society where there is violence and evil. In my opinion, a utopian society would consist of very few government mandated laws and a desirable constitution. People would get along, and everything would be perfect. In order to achieve such an ideal, people must do anything in their power to manifest what they have envisioned. Human nature, like any other animal’s nature, causes us to become competitive, especially with each other. In practice, the attempt to have a perfect society leads to the creation of a dystopian society where people are unhappy, afraid, and not treated fairly.
Imagine a world where many of the things that are of easy access today; such as the internet and a mobile phone were taken away or banned from use. How about being forced to listen to certain music and watching certain television shows and movies. Nobody wants to live that way, and nobody will have to anytime soon. Even though people can be brainwashed into becoming a dystopian society, it is not possible to have dystopian society today because there is no non lethal way of stopping a rebellion and not all countries will be on board for the idea of total control by the government. First of all, a dystopian society would be nearly impossible to have today for many reasons.
If this is the idea that everyone is only out for themselves, you can get a better picture of how a society like that will run. Everyone would be in constant need to be number one or the best and that's all because of human nature. We are naturally made that way and have a competitive instinct regardless of everything. It is more realistic to develop a dystopia only because there is nothing out there that is perfect. Realizing now that regardless of how you structure a society there will always some flaw that will overall lead this idea of a Utopian society to its real identity, a Dystopia in