Published in January of 1962, Kurt Vonnegut's 2 B R 0 2 B focuses on a not so distant 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, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So was old age. Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers." (2). This nu...

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