Environmental Change In Dystopian Literature

Dystopian fiction stories really on many different themes that make each story unique. An example of an important theme is an environmental change in “All summer in a day” by Ray Bradbury. In another famous dystopian tale “ Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, the story relies the theme of a lack of individuality. The last story is “We” by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin which relies on the theme of a big government control. These themes make each story very exciting to read and will be discussed further in the next few paragraphs. “All summer in a day” by Ray Bradbury has a very common themes like most other dystopian fiction stories. “All summer in a day” especially there is the theme of environmental control/ environmental change. A quote from the story that supports this theme is “It had been raining for seven years...Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could never remember a time when there wasn’t rain and rain and rain.They were all nine years old, and if there …show more content…
A quote to support this is “They weren’t really very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sash weights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. George was toying with the vague nation that maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped.” This quote show the ways the government is controlling everyone so everybody is the same in every way. The government handicapped every person so everyone's the same. This quote supports the main theme because no person has their own personality or specialties and skills that the people should have. No one is good or bad at anything, but everyone is exactly the same. In conclusion the story “ Harrison Bergeron” shows the common theme of a big lack of