Compare And Contrast Vonnegut And Roald Dahl

Thomas Paine once said, “Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.” In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag, the protagonist, works as a fireman. Throughout the novel, he begins to discover his true self. In this utopian society, people are conceited and have little or no emotions. Similarly, many in our society are self-centered and have limited feelings. Even though both societies have numerous characteristics in common, the two societies have multiple differences.

“And the Destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.” (Butler 77) The books “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley and “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia E. Butler are both science fiction novels warning of a dangerous potential future. Frankenstein looks at the dangers of creating artificially intelligent beings, while Parable of the Sower explores human savagery in the collapse of American civilization as the result of poor political decisions. Each addresses concerns of the time they were published. While both are pessimistic views of the future and both require the suspension of disbelief, the concept of dystopia and utopia is definitely apparent in both novels. A dystopia being a world in which nothing is perfect and a utopia being a “perfect” world. Frankenstein addresses a timeless issue that modern science may soon make a reality, while Parable of the Sower creates an alarming depiction of conservative leadership.

Beloved, by Toni Morrison, and Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, are masterpieces of literature that use different components to criticize society and explore the nature of humankind. Some of the main characters in the novels – Sethe and Beloved, and Victor Frankenstein and the Monster – have intricate relationships based on love, hatred, remorse, and mainly vengeance. The gothic thematic of each novel is demonstrated through elements that explore the setting of most scenes, as well as the nature of human behavior. The characters who were unnaturally brought to life, Beloved and the Monster, serve as catalysts for the development of the narrative, and have profound effects in all remaining characters.

The author uses the characters in the story as a big climax, to show evil throughout the text. The two stories are very different and are very much the same all at once and they both play big parts with the main points using the characters. Lamb to the slaughter is written by Roald Dahl and The possibility of evil is written by shirley jackson. The characters in the stories play dramatic parts in the story, to make the story interesting.

Conclusion: Roald Dahl uses his characters to portray his personal views that troubles in life can be solved by rationalizing the situation before making a decision, that you should appreciate what you have, and that ultimately that everyone is a lamb, all with the power to break free of their

Although Kurt Vonnegut claims to be atheist he still uses the bible and learns from it. “The sun was risen upon the Earth when Lot entered into Zo-ar . . . inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground" (Page 22). In this bible story Lot's wife was told to not look back and she did and was turned into a pillar of salt. He uses this bible story to teach the readers it does no good looking back

Everyone knows what writing is to one extent or another, but we all have different definitions of how it should be done and varying degrees of seriousness about the art. We all have a process of writing, but each is unique to ourselves and our own experiences. Annie Dillard and Stephen King are two well known authors who have published many pieces, two of which describe how they view the writing process and let their readers get a peek of what goes on through their minds when they write. These two pieces are Dillard’s The Writing Life and King’s “What Writing Is.”

Thesis Statement- Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax and Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, though created in different time periods, share a lot of the same literary techniques and ideas. However, there are also many differences in the way word choice is used, the overall tone of the story, and whether or not there is a moral of the story.

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut takes places on two contrasting planets. One is Earth, where war tears apart families and minds, and the other is Tralfamadore, where supernatural alien beings share their extended knowledge of the world. Vonnegut uses the two planets, Earth and Tralfamadore, to show the contrasting ideas of chaos and order, and that human actions have limitations that render them helpless against a meaningless universe.

Fahrenheit 451 and Delirium are two novels that are written by two different authors, and despite their differences they are quite similar. The first book, Fahrenheit 451, is a dystopian novel set in the future from the 1960’s where books are illegal objects. The second book, Delirium, is a dystopian novel written by Lauren Oliver that is, again, set in the future, only in this novel, love is considered a disease, where the treatment you receive makes it impossible to feel love. As different as the two novels seem at first glance, they do have certain factors that make them similar to one another if you look deeper into these books.

Both Animal Farm and Fahrenheit 451 are fictional novels in which a dystopian society exists. These societies were both created by a “central government”. When citizens of these societies fail to stand up and protect their rights, authority figures will keep increasing their level of aggressiveness until it ruptures the society. When the authorities in these novels abuse their power, it fractures the society and greatly increases corruption.

As an author, Kurt Vonnegut has received just about every kind of praise an author can receive: his works held the same sway over American philosophy as did those of Jack Kerouac or J.R.R. Tolkein; his writing has received acclaim from academics and the masses alike; and three of his books have been made into feature films. Society has permanently and noticeably been altered by his writing. Through accessible language and easily-understood themes, Vonnegut has created works subtle, engrossing, and familiar. His main method for doing this is by exploiting a theme with which everyone is familiar and about which everyone has his own opinion: religion.

The novels, “Beloved” written by Toni Morrison and “The Color Purple” written by Alice Walker both represent two women, the protagonist of both books, are able to accept their past and be able to find fulfillment and move on with their lives to be something better than were they were left off. Comparing acts of love and the moral support from the community to be the strong independent women they originally are. Toni Morrison and Alice Walker represent these two women, Celie and Sethe, in ways that they have the potential to help others but, when it comes to themselves they back down, which is what is not realized by these women.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are both novels that deal with the theme of dystopia. Both novels depict societies in which mind control is used to create social stability. There are also individuals who rebel against this loss of freedom and identity. However, these individuals lose their fight for freedom because of unsuccessful escape methods, acts of violence and effective conditioning.

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Kurt Vonnegut’s short stories, Harrison Bergeron and Who Am I This Time?, both explore the theme of individuality. Individuality is simply the quality of being different from others. Both Ishiguro and Vonnegut use their works to discuss different aspects of individuality. Never Let Me Go explores aspects including opinions and dreams, creativity, and relationships, while Vonnegut’s short stories explore aspects such as being oneself and freedom of choice.