Thus, rules should be rightful, just and suitable to the needs of the people. Overly organized societies remind me of Nazi rule in Germany, where Hitler ruled as a dictator.In the end, people will demand to oust their leader because freedom is a basic human right. This sentence show the stringencies of an overly organized society, when every move and action corresponds to every tick of the clock. Roller-bearing plant in their sneakers… he heard the right-left-right of the 5:00 AM formation, going home,” (Ellison, p. Ellison used symbolic descriptions to display the Harlequin’s rebellion, as well as the reaction of the society to his thoughts and actions.We could almost feel the robot-like lives of his society, as described in the story, the Harlequin “could hear the metronomic, left-right-left of the 2:47 shift, entering the Timkin A certain society will be like a machine, the people will be just like robots whose actions are measured through the rules that are enforced to them. 06).įunny and yet cynical in some sense, readers of “Repent Harlequin” will be exposed to that facet in society and government. Marm's dispensing of the jellybeans creates an unabashedly festive atmosphere among the factory workers-indeed as Ellison describes it, "a holiday" (p.
405), the traditional colors of New Orleans' Mardi Gras. Although Ellison explicitly states that there are "illions and billions" (p.Ĥ05) of jellybeans and that they are of various colors, he is careful to specify only three of the colors: purple, yellow, and green (p. Apart from that, another image that Ellison wants to project in this scene is that of a doubloon-dispensing float rider in one of New Orleans’ annual Carnival parades.One indication that this is Ellison's intention is the jellybeans that Marm unleashes on the factory workers. We could deem that throughout the story, Ellison wants us to see Marm as a comic rebel-hero. 06).Accordingly, when the Harlequin swoops down in his airboat on the workers entering the roller-bearing plant and showers them with jellybeans, he is attempting to show them that life can and should be a joyous affair and not the government-mandated robotic existence they are leading.
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