A Sound Of Thunder And Harrison Bergeron: A Comparative Analysis

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Do you really want to have advance technology? Having the advanced technology to travel back in time is cool and all but, it can come with many heavy consequences if you use it wrong or simply a mistake. Time travel can change the future or mess with history. In Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” and Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” technology is portrayed as a dangerous master because whenever the story evolves with technology, there is a problem. Technology is very bad in “A Ssound of Thunder” because Eckels messed with the history and changed in the future. “With a stamp of your foot, you annihilate first one, then a dozen, then a thousand, a million, a billion possible mice!” (Bradbury 14). As shown in the short story the power of