Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut uses dark humor and satire to convey his feelings and beliefs on the world around him, without being completely obvious. ‘“If you could just take a few out when you came home from work,” said Hazel. “I mean- you don’t compare with anybody around here. You just set around,”
“If I tried to get away with it,’ said George, ‘then other people’d get away with it – and pretty soon wed be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn’t like that would you?”
“Id hate it,” Said Hazel.
“There you are,” said George. “The minute people start cheating on laws what do you think happens to society?” (9)’
That small section from Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”, is a great example of Vonnegut speaking out, in a satirical way about how people strive for perfection, and utopia, and Vonnegut brings forth a more realistic Utopia where everyone is “equal”. But this so......
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