‘‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” by Harlan Ellison is set in the future setting of the technological world that functions on the strict schedules, like ticking of the time bomb. The plot of the story revolves around a world, for which time means everything. Ticktockman, the protagonist, is a robotic character that has the authority to penalize or kill those who do not value their time and do not comply with their commitments. In actual, the story is a satire on the utilization and strict following of timing that has converted man into a machine. Being late is taken as an offensive crime and the culprit must pay the price by deducting certain amount of time from his life. Harlequin plays the role of a distractor for the people, who does not want everything to be scheduled and on time but he is captured.
The characters along with the theme are symbolic with respect to the evolving times. The story is a critique on the predictable future of the world that is presented to be gone crazy with mobilized work strengths, totalitarian reign, accentuation on mass utilization, and distraction with time. The presented time-driven society in the story is …show more content…
“Ozymandias” is a sonnet that tells is a symbolic poem about the decline and fall of famous leaders. Although in their reign they ruled the world and were the master of everything yet after their death what remains behind is the ruins of their territories and their names in the books. The poem talks about w a traveler in the desert who investigates about a statue he comes across in the desert. Upon investigation he is told that the statue is of an Egyptian King Ramses II, known as “Ozymandias” in Greek who was the ‘king of the kings’. But after so many centuries nothing of his wealth is left behind but the dry sand and a
The characters along with the theme are symbolic with respect to the evolving times. The story is a critique on the predictable future of the world that is presented to be gone crazy with mobilized work strengths, totalitarian reign, accentuation on mass utilization, and distraction with time. The presented time-driven society in the story is …show more content…
“Ozymandias” is a sonnet that tells is a symbolic poem about the decline and fall of famous leaders. Although in their reign they ruled the world and were the master of everything yet after their death what remains behind is the ruins of their territories and their names in the books. The poem talks about w a traveler in the desert who investigates about a statue he comes across in the desert. Upon investigation he is told that the statue is of an Egyptian King Ramses II, known as “Ozymandias” in Greek who was the ‘king of the kings’. But after so many centuries nothing of his wealth is left behind but the dry sand and a