... future in which human beings have cured disease, conquered old age, and even cheated death. In this story, Vonnegut displays his image of a dystopian society through the use of imagery, theme, and time period. In 2 B R 0 2 B, (where the number 0 is pronounced as "naught" to rephrase Hamlet's iconic question) "There were no prisons, no slums ... which two of his triplets must die, along with his grandfather, in order to not tip the scale of world population. Much like George Orwell's Fahrenheit 451, Vonnegut's story uses the setting of a futuristic supposed utopia to expose the blindness ...

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