Perspectives

Literary perspectives

The short story ‘2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut is a science-fiction story. Science-fiction is a literary genre that usually deals with events taking place in imagined futures. Science-fiction is hard to define as a genre, as it contains many different traits, but it mainly includes speculations on what the world could be like in the future. The events in “2BR02B”, for example, take place around the year 2200.

One of the themes in science-fiction deals with different political systems, such as utopias and dystopias. “2BR02B” presents a society that is, apparently, ideal, but which proves to be a dystopia, as it focuses on the supposed benefit of humanity, ignoring the traumas of the individuals. Science fiction also offers possible ways for current issues to be solved in the future. For example, Vonnegut’s story presents a future where th...