Dystopian Societies Harrison Bergeron And Ayn Rand's Anthem

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Big Differences between Two Dystopian Societies A Dystopia is a place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad. The short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut is about a time in the future where the government makes everyone “equal” by using handicaps for their individual strength and intelligence. In “Harrison Bergeron” but Vonnegut and Ayn Rand’s Anthem both are different in their relationships. In “Harrison Bergeron” there are families and relationships in society. “And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son, Harrison away” (Harrison Bergeon pg.1 para.1). In Ayn Rand’s Anthem, the society the citizens are living in don’t use the word “I’ and have any form of individualism,
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