Vonnegut Jr.’s Harrison Bergeron and Orwell’s 1984 are based on the concept of negative utopia. The governments in both these novels control their masses using harsh methods. The government in 1984 uses brainwashing‚ doublethink‚ mutability of the past and vaporization to control its masses. The government in Harrison Bergeron uses physical and mental handicaps to control its masses and in the effort to make everyone equal. Both the governments have a tight control on its people but the government
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Find someone you think is interesting and newsworthy (someone who’s spending her summer doing something interesting‚ has overcome difficulties‚ has an unusual job or hobby‚ goes out of his way to help others‚ won a prestigious award‚ etc.). Write about the person without stating any of your own opinions in the story. Use third person (he said‚ she did)‚ with accurate quotes in the person’s own words. Try to capture a sense of the individual’s personality and mood. Quote at least two other people
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"There is something in the puppet that ties its dramatic life more to the shapes of dreams and fantasy‚ the poetry of the unconscious‚ than to any realistic drama of human life." [1] The word‚ ’puppet‚’ is derived from the Latin pupa‚ meaning little girl or doll. The metaphoric extension of the word first recorded in the 1540’s is: ’person whose actions are manipulated by another.’ [2] Puppetry is the art of taking an inanimate object or representational figure‚ manipulating it and giving it life
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not equal for any one person to feel pain but it would be equal if everyone felt it. Although his thoughts may be scrambled in his head‚ that does not change that he is intelligent. Another example is when Harrison escaped from jail‚ one of the ballerinas had to make the announcement of his escape and the narrator states "And she had to
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the snow fell downwards like soft diamonds and grasped gently onto my dress. How could something that felt such bitter and loneliness create something of such majestic beauty? Stepping further into the lawn‚ the flakes fell like a million ballerinas all dressed in white‚ they whirled from the dim sky and landed neatly onto the lawn. They danced and melted upon the palm of my hand as I twirled with turmoil through the harsh but affectionate air. Weaving around me like pristine fairy dust‚ I
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Aladdin or Beauty and the Beast Sandra Stewart There seems to be a trend in movies recently: more interest in the human element‚ less in hi-tech spectacle. Ironically‚ two of the best movies I’ve seen in the last couple of years that explore the area of human relationships are cartoons. Both are Disney productions exemplifying the highest standards of artwork‚ complex musical scores‚ and a strong storyline. Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin are alike in these ways‚ but Beauty and the Beast‚ unlike
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Born 1953 in Troy‚ New York; studied at Cornell University (MFA‚ 1983) with A.R. Ammons. ! Teaching positions at University of Michigan (19832001) and Cornell University (2001- ). ! Seven books of poetry and essays: • Dance Script With Electric Ballerina (1983) • Palladium (1986) • Powers of Congress (1990) • Sensual Math (1997) • Feeling as a Foreign Language [essays] (1999) • Felt (2001) • Cascade Experiment [anthology] (2004) ! “Postmodern Fractal Poetics”: characterized by a disruption
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The two stories that I chose for this first assignment were Harrison Bergeron (pg.198-202) written by Kurt Vonnegut‚ Jr.and The Story of an Hour (pg.279-280) written by Kate Chopin. Both stories that I read had 2 very different time periods from each other. The Story of an Hour was set in 1894 and it was about a woman that has heart problems and had just received news that her husband was dead. She went up into her room and started crying and was called by Josephine‚ her husband’s friend‚ to come
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Aristotle once said‚ “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” In Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron‚” the government attempts to create equality between all individuals‚ and unfortunately‚ propitiously succeeds. The equality laws state that all of mankind must be identical to each other in terms of appearance and knowledge. Intelligent beings are handicapped with a monitor in their ear which emits caustic sounds every twenty seconds or so‚ to wreck their train of thought
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Equality or Freedom A society of perfectly equal individuals may sound like a world worth living in to some. However‚ “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut disproves this idea. In the story‚ the government attempts to create a population of completely equal beings. In order to create this society‚ those who are born smarter‚ stronger‚ or prettier are required to wear handicaps of some sort to compensate for their upperhand in life. Vonnegut uses multiple literary devices to portray the theme of this
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