The Chrysanthemums vs Harrison Bergeron
While John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "Harrison Bergeron" are authored with a sense of the same basic theme, one is told with a simpler to empathize mood than the other. Steinbeck's narration of a woman's struggle for equality while being held back, powerless by society, is made more realistic by the high volume of modern imagery and symbology used. While Vonnegut's narration of an entire society's struggle against equality, also being held powerless is less than believable due to the futuristic use of technology personified and modern society's own narrow mind ness that this would never happen in the way it is depicted. "The Chrysanthemums" portrays Elisa Allen, a woman frustrated, confused, under appreciated and lonely. She searches and longs for a time of equality when she is on a level playing field with the male species. Steinbeck brilliantly uses his setting as symbols of being confined from a male dominant society "the grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the valley from the sky and the rest of the world." She is able to demonstrate what power she does posses within her own garden, but that is a barrier symbolized by being fenced in. Her frustration is exemplified when she peers dow
They may continue the fight until claiming victory. Another change was noted by Henry "Now you're changed again. Then her hand dropped to the ground. " Eventually, the antagonist appears in the form of a man, a stranger. " This is beyond our realm of thinking. " Feeling weakened and subservient again, ". After four attempts to empower Elisa to employ him, the man knew he'd only served to irritate her. Laws are written on the premise of equality. Relinquishing to society's view she responds, "Oh, no.
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