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Comparing Antagonist In Harrison Bergeron And War Prayer

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Antagonist. The usual connotation of antagonist is a villain; a vile, putrid human being wanting to harm others for his/her personal amusement. Harrison Bergeron in the story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut and the stranger in “War Prayer” by Mark Twain are antagonists but only one accentuates the personality of a villain. In the stories “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut and “War Prayer” by Mark Twain the authors use characters that seem out of place in the setting; in “War Prayer” Mark Twain uses the stranger to deliver the speech about how a Christian and Mark Twain view war while in Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut uses Harrison Bergeron as the medium to deliver Vonnegut’s opinion about a Utopian society. Both of these characters

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