Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron and Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

Freedom is one of many wonderful qualities in life, but life can be amazing when it is removed. Freedom of thought, repentance, and refusal should be incorporated into daily life, but in authoritarian dis - topia society these freedoms are just realization of dreams. When society draws attitudes and lifestyles to citizens, people adapt to and accept these demands, but it is not without compromise. In Shirley · Jackson masterpiece 'Lottery' and Kurt · Vonnegut 's special story' Harrison Bergeron ', human life has often been sacrificed and withdrawn, which is a standard of society.

Harrison Bergeron, written in 1961 by Kurt Vonnegut. This story is illuminating the distant peer society that leads its personality and is expected to line up with the authorities. The short story Shirley Jackson wrote The Lottery was published in June 1948 and announced a story about a strong vision of a quiet and friendly society seamlessly even if the utopia was skeptical. I was in trouble. The literary examples of these distorted and utopian stories have many of the same features. Society is a fantasy to the perfect world, citizens seem to be constantly watching, it is a concept of avatar of character or social citizen worship, citizen is afraid of outside world

"Lottery" written by Shirley Jackson in 1948 and "Harrison Bergeron" written by Kurt Vonnegut in 1961 is a tragedy of how society adapts to a specific tradition and existence style It is a narrative. No matter how terrible, irrational, or ridiculous it is. Society is worried about what will happen if it does not follow it, so it complies with a strange tradition such as "sell people" in "lottery". Regardless of whether it is spiritual, religious or physical punishment, everyone is afraid that it will bring about the worst. These stories are similar in many respects, but there are also many differences; "lotteries" seems to have occurred in older villages in New England in 1948, people were cruel than now, and "Harrison · Bergeron "will be in the future. Somewhere in 2081, occurred somewhere in central US

Shirley Jackson 's short story "The Lottery" and Kurt Vonnegut' s short story "Harrison Bergeron" have similar themes, especially to cast doubts on the current situation and tolerate anti - productive social practices. Another similarity is that both stories show two very homogeneous societies aimed at maintaining unity through a common approach that brings more fear than change. Furthermore, in the process of maintaining these traditions, both societies are stagnating.