Everyone desires a perfect world, yet they cannot get it. This is shown in Kurt Vonnegut’s “2B0N2B” as everyone hides his or her problems in this “utopia” world established in the short story. Vonnegut in “2BR02B” establishes a theme that there is no such thing as a utopia by using imagery and conflicts.
The story opens up to the world being as it says, “… was perfectly swell.” This leads to the reader imagining a perfect world. It adds to that factor explaining how it was so “perfect”. It says in the second sentence, “There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars.” So far, throughout the story, everything does appear to be so well it is almost unbelievable. Yet Vonnegut uses imagery in this story to add a theme of how this world does have problems that it cannot hide. These descriptions of the world being such a utopia are followed by how it could be seen as a worse situation than the world we have now. It eventually begins to unravel with how a soon to be father has to choose the hardest decision plausibly of his life. This man, named Edward K. Wehling Jr, had to pick one of his soon-to-be born triplets to actually be raised and not killed at birth.
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Vonnegut uses imagery in this mural and the muralist beliefs to show how all of these people like the orderly are pretending that the world is perfect and reasonable when it is truly not. As the painter knows the world to be, a hate filled world with too many problems to count. As he said, “You think I am proud of this drab? You think this is my idea of what life really looks like?” He then went on to be questioned about what does he believe what life is truly like. After that, he pointed to a “…foul dropcloth.” This shows how he is not oblivious to this utopia and sees right through it to know that life has problems and you cannot just pretend that it does
The story opens up to the world being as it says, “… was perfectly swell.” This leads to the reader imagining a perfect world. It adds to that factor explaining how it was so “perfect”. It says in the second sentence, “There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars.” So far, throughout the story, everything does appear to be so well it is almost unbelievable. Yet Vonnegut uses imagery in this story to add a theme of how this world does have problems that it cannot hide. These descriptions of the world being such a utopia are followed by how it could be seen as a worse situation than the world we have now. It eventually begins to unravel with how a soon to be father has to choose the hardest decision plausibly of his life. This man, named Edward K. Wehling Jr, had to pick one of his soon-to-be born triplets to actually be raised and not killed at birth.
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Vonnegut uses imagery in this mural and the muralist beliefs to show how all of these people like the orderly are pretending that the world is perfect and reasonable when it is truly not. As the painter knows the world to be, a hate filled world with too many problems to count. As he said, “You think I am proud of this drab? You think this is my idea of what life really looks like?” He then went on to be questioned about what does he believe what life is truly like. After that, he pointed to a “…foul dropcloth.” This shows how he is not oblivious to this utopia and sees right through it to know that life has problems and you cannot just pretend that it does