In George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s “Harrison Bergeron”, the authors implement a violent diction to convey that absolute government control leads to the destruction of humanity. In Animal Farm, Napoleon is the sole dictator and has complete control over the farm. When several of the animals confess to Napoleon that they are in league with Snowball, they are all “slain on the spot” until “a pile of corpses” could be seen “before Napoleon’s feet” (Orwell 84). When government has complete control without checks and balances, it often turns to fear and violence to maintain orderly societies. Then, when Harrison Bergeron and his Empress are shot by the remorseless Diana Moon Clampers, they “were dead” before they “hit the floor”
