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 wh...

"The vision of one century is often the reality of the next..." (Nelson 108). Throughout time, great minds have constructed their own visions of utopia. Through the study of utopias, one finds that these "perfect" societies have many flaws. For example, most utopias tend to have an authoritarian ...