Bleak Future
... Vonnegut’s world threw the reader into a life without individuality, the similar approach that was taken by Bellamy. Taking a closer look at Vonnegut’s view, one can see his violent side express itself with the chaotic crusade of a fourteen year old to thwart the government that made life more difficult by making everyone the same. It is literally and physically impossible to make everyone the same. Bellamy tried to do the same thing but his views were different as to making everyone the same. He tried to make everyone the same with a more passive approach. By eliminating diversity and choice, Bellamy was able to make everyone have exactly the same share of everything. Bellamy was striving for the perfect race as well as equality of all. He did not have impediments for the beautiful and strong but rather made them all the same, almost in short what the Bible speaks of: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. Bellamy’s world is more of a communistic society since the government owns everything and disperses all. However, the mixture that Bellamy has made has aspects of democracy, however little there may be of it. Unlike Vonnegut’s world in which no free thought is let loose, Bellamy lets forth free speech with a little price. Both Bellamy and Vonnegut strove to make their sights for the future a great view but unfortunately, they were too far off to pinpoint the true nature of life as it is now. Types of lifestyles were not left behind too easily when either of the authors wrote their works. Their stories have the background they had during their lifetime, just tweaked a little bit. Bellamy’s story reflects the type of life he had and what was wrong with it. It also included what he thought needed to be fixed. There is no doubt that in Bellamy’s time, there were too many problems that could not be handled or rather, controlled. A lot of natural disasters happened during that year and it is fitting that Bellamy sought to find a world in which people were shielded from the elements. His world was perfect in that the people did not have to worry about money or social status. In Bellamy’s time, marriage between a higher class and lower class person would be looked down upon and so he made it so that in his world, nothing of that sort would be a problem. But as it is naturally, Bellamy included much of his own culture into his book. Life as he knew it became the life of the future, with a few minor adjustments. There was perhaps a sort of political instability that makes Vonnegut’s worl...