Analysis Of Said The Ticktockman By Harlan Ellison

social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.". When a man conforms he displays obedience towards the regulations of the society into which he has been planted. Harlan Ellison writes of conformity in his epic entitled "'Repent Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman". And it is through his piece that he paints the idea of non-conformism. Ellison implements in media res organization, crafts a programmed society, interpolates monotonous diction, and alludes to Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" in respect to serving

or even avoid losing it. Harlequin defies these notions. He represent the idealized individual, the capitalist one who refuses to conform. The person that Karl Marx seems to hate, not only does to Harlequin directly to fight time and cross the ticktockman, the enforcer of regulation in the society of our story, takes joy in doing so. Harlequin spends an unreasonable amount of money in jellybeans. This purchase of jellybeans is flagrant contradiction to the conservative 'waste-not' principles of Marxism