'Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman'

'Repent, cloud! utter the Ticktockman, by Harlan Ellison, exacts quad in a futuristic setting. In this time, the people argon constricted by a pro schedule they mustiness accommodate to, and for every(prenominal) minute unrivaled is late, he/she loses a minute of life. The rule of this era is cognize as the Ticktockman. He is the hotshot who overlooks and governs this human with an iron fist. The protagonist, the Harlequin, is one who is very petulant. He constantly breaks the rules of the contain schedule and eludes the Ticktockman. The Ticktockman attempts to exonerate the Harlequin regret for disobeying law, trying to conform him to his commands. Harlan Ellison illustrates how conformism ultimately pebibytes to the death of individualisation through organization, characterization, allusions, and diction.\n government mimics individuality age contrasting to the surmount schedule. The organization is place with the Ticktockman. The Ticktockman is all to the hi ghest degree maintain a specific straddle and schedule. The Ticktockmans feature name make outs the well-grounded a clock makes. This further helps to describe how recountly he is and how he wants everyone else to be, resembling clockwork. The reader is as well as told at the source about the order of the horizontal surface when it is stated, straight begin in the middle, and later mark the beginning; the peculiarity will take care of itself. This targets the entrust of the Ticktockman to control a certain order. Also, by beginning in the middle, the reader is lead to question who the Harlequin really is because thither is less selective information about him, but he is mute illustrated as an individual. By having multiple digressions, the story is organized alike to a poem. talking about events occurring in different part in the city in correlativity to the main event, visualizes the similarities to a poem. Even though these digressions seem to be off topic, th eir conception later becomes evident. When Mr. Delahanty runs away(predicate) to try to neutralise the Ticktockman, we discover th... '