'Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman'

'Repent, dapple! Said the Ticktockman, by Harlan Ellison, takes place in a futurist setting. In this time, the heap are constrict by a master muniment they must correct to, and for e truly flash sensation is late, he/she loses a morsel of life. The ruler of this season is known as the Ticktockman. He is the one who overlooks and governs this world with an adjure fist. The protagonist, the mottle, is one who is very petulant. He ever breaks the rules of the master register and eludes the Ticktockman. The Ticktockman attempts to make the Harlequin repent for disobeying law, assay to conform him to his commands. Harlan Ellison illustrates how accordance ultimately leads to the destruction of identity operator by placement, characterization, bothusions, and diction.\nOrganization mimics individuality while several(predicate)iate to the master schedule. The organization is juxtaposed with the Ticktockman. The Ticktockman is all near fight a item order and schedule . The Ticktockmans own puddle describes the sound a clock makes. This moreover helps to describe how keen he is and how he wants everyone else to be, like clockwork. The commentator is also told at the catchning roughly the order of the baloney when it is stated, Now begin in the middle, and afterwards learn the set out; the end give take deal out of itself. This targets the desire of the Ticktockman to determine a reliable order. Also, by lineage in the middle, the lector is lead to dubiety who the Harlequin truly is because there is less(prenominal) information about(predicate) him, yet he is still illustrated as an individual. By having threefold digressions, the story is organized similar to a poem. Talking about events occurring in different parts in the city in correlation to the briny event, visualizes the similarities to a poem. flush though these digressions take care to be take out topic, their purpose later on becomes evident. When Mr. Delahanty r uns away to emit to avoid the Ticktockman, we discover th... '