Harrison Bergeron Questions on Pessimism

Harrison Bergeron

Although Lem’s statement is valid in its criticism of dystopian science fiction, I think Vonnegut uses the story to illustrate a worst-case scenario for the idea of egalitarianism. The story does not...

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Harrison Bergeron

Lem's Objection is "The revolt against the machine and against civilization, the praise of the "aesthetic" nature of catastrophe, the dead-end course of human civilization-these are their foremost...

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