'Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman'

'Repent, harlequin! Said the Ticktockman, by Harlan Ellison, takes place in a futurist setting. In this time, the mass are contract by a master catalogue they must align to, and for e very pure single is late, he/she loses a minute of life. The ruler of this succession is known as the Ticktockman. He is the one who overlooks and governs this world with an press out fist. The protagonist, the dapple, is one who is very petulant. He incessantly breaks the rules of the master agenda and eludes the Ticktockman. The Ticktockman attempts to make the Harlequin repent for disobeying law, difficult to conform him to his commands. Harlan Ellison illustrates how conformism ultimately leads to the finish of individuation by boldness, characterization, allusions, and diction.\nOrganization mimics individuality while severalise to the master schedule. The organization is juxtaposed with the Ticktockman. The Ticktockman is all roughly plead a special(prenominal) order and sche dule. The Ticktockmans own tell apart describes the sound a clock makes. This yet helps to describe how groovy he is and how he wants everyone else to be, like clockwork. The proof proofreader is also told at the take upning almost(predicate) the order of the bilgewater when it is stated, Now begin in the middle, and ulterior learn the dourshoot; the end pass on take care of itself. This targets the desire of the Ticktockman to keep back a authentic order. Also, by starting line in the middle, the reader is lead to question who the Harlequin real is because there is little information about him, yet he is still illustrated as an individual. By having nonuple digressions, the story is make similar to a poem. Talking about events occurring in unlike parts in the city in correlation to the of import event, visualizes the similarities to a poem. til now though these digressions see to be off topic, their purpose afterward becomes evident. When Mr. Delahanty run s away to probe to avoid the Ticktockman, we separate th... '