Satire And Imagery In Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron
Many people want to know what could happen in the future. Well, Kurt Vonnegut is an American writer, he is known for writing his satirical literary style, as well as the science-fiction elements in his work of writing. The most known work of science -fiction is “Harrison Bergeron”, which is a short story of a dystopian future of society that is also a satire short story about the future.
But the most known in his writing is satire and imagery. He based his writing on what humans have down. Most of them are mostly satire of the government, even humans behavior towards one another. He mostly gets the satire and very detailed imagery, because he served the military. He was a prisoner-of-war in a slaughterhouse in Dresden. Which has so much experience and he wrote many stories on the satires of war and a future society.
He has worked many jobs until a point where his writing career took off. The most known short stories that is based on a dystopian future that he wrote about. Is about “Harrison Bergeron”. Is a story of a boy who wants to overthrow the government, because the society is trying to make and achieve everything in a perfect world, but they completely fail. Kurt Vonnegut has so much imagery in the story. Describing the weight of the boy that is 300 pounds and is handicap, which in the story he is seen as a nobody. Which to the people in the future don't even care for him or his family. Even as a “simple intelligence” is seen as not very smart at all, just a simple dumb human. He cannot do anything to give his out his own opinion in this future world. Even by just him giving out his own bravery and being smart can lead him to prison. Which is an experience that has happened during war. Kurt Vonnegut is very detail in the stories, he has so much on what society wanted to do to humans. It is like how war is, when many people did not want to join or be drafted. Society, well mostly the United States government does not care about the opinion. If you give out your opinion, they will imprison you and fine you for your own right. That is what Kurt Vonnegut is believed to be saying. Because he served in the military during World War II.
In the story is described how society is achieving greatness but end up failing. It is efficient that during the time Kurt Vonnegut was in the military, many governments in the war were in a crisis of trying go contain before all went loose. Even the United States government was having a bad situation on the war. Other countries see the United States as a big achievement in their society back in the war. And some have to copy how the United States where, but end up failing. That is why some governments decided to follow other rules or even governments so they can be a super power nation like the rest of the “First world countries”. That is why in the story is believed that the society is trying to process, but end up failing as a nation.
The climate of “Harrison Bergeron” is very political based on the judgement of what the intelligence of a person is and how the government sees it and judges it and warns the society of that person or how not to act like an individual who is “Smart”. Kurt Vonnegut added imagery to what it feels like how a future society can become a political judgment in a future world. He is telling a statement how the United States government and some of the people can judge and feel of an over controlling and judging characteristics of a society during a war. So they could feel important and smart about the situation.
This was an experience with Kurt Vonnegut during his time. Many people were very ignorant on someone’s opinion of what they thought of the government or even other countries who did not see the United States as a great country to follow, which lead to them following other nations. Like communism and seeing a super power nation fail or even seeing a super power nation achieve something great. Which Kurt Vonnegut satire of a future that a society cannot achieve. Kurt Vonnegut is saying how Humans will always be somehow or in a way controlled by anyone, no matter what it is or even the situation, Humans will have a behavior towards something they believe in. Achieving equality for everyone is difficult and can lead to being dangerous at moments. That is why Kurt Vonnegut is trying to believe to be saying that Humans will always find ways to think or try to use behavior to feel more dominant towards an achievement. Which can be a scary way of how sometimes governments can try ways of controlling humans, this is why humans have an instinct inside of them telling them what is wrong and what is right, so that their ideas can be overthink or have a second thought. The way humans have is behavior which gives them a “Gut” feeling.
In conclusion, many people want to know what could happen in the future. Well, Kurt Vonnegut is an American writer known for writing his satirical literary style, as well as the science-fiction elements in his work of writing. The most known work of science -fiction is “Harrison Bergeron”, which is a short story of a dystopian future of society that is also a satire short story about the future. The boy “Harrison Bergeron” is a boy who wants to overthrow the government. The theme Kurt Vonnegut is saying Humans will have a behavior towards something they believe in. Achieving equality for everyone is difficult and can lead to being dangerous at moments. Because humans do not know what are the limits when it comes to doing an achievement and a dangerous moment of achievements of realization of what power it could lead to mankind or its followers.
