Bureaucratic Control In Harrison Bergeron

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Dystopian Literature is a kind of story that castigates society and the rituals/traditions they partake in. Although some may state that our society is a dystopian world, evidence demonstrates that it is most certainly not. The philosophical control in the "Omelas" and the bureaucratic control in "Harrison Bergeron" depict that our general public is not. Dissimilar to the stories that we have perused our general public has more freedoms and less power inside the different types of controls, demonstrating our society is not a dystopia.

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