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A 3 page paper which discusses Harlan Ellison’s “’Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman.” No additional sources cited.
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to readers, and normally that future is one that perhaps society should be aware of, or be on the lookout for, as it is a society that insists on conformity
and one that insists on a lack of individual identity. The following paper examines this in his story "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman." Harlan Ellisons "Repent, Harlequin! Said
the Ticktockman" In this story the Ticktockman, a name no one called this individual to his face, is a man in charge of ensuring that everything runs on time. People
are essentially docked, in their length of life, for every moment they are late with anything. "If he was ten minutes late, he lost ten minutes of his life" (Ellison).
Each individual had something implanted inside them that could be turned off, thus turning off their life and with each late moment ones life was shortened. People would even get
notices that they were about to be terminated, and told, "please straighten your affairs" in preparation of that time when they would be "turned off" (Ellison). In essence this
story revolves around keeping time, controlling time, and controlling people. With all of the people consumed with knowing they had to always be on time there was no time for
really enjoying life or for any sort of creative activity. The society was controlled and this one man, the Harlequin, or Everett as he is finally come to be known
by the Ticktockman, is a man who could really care less about the issue of time. He was a freak, so to speak, and he confused people because he was
always late and very spontaneous and incredibly impish. He went against everything that the society stood for, or the powers in the society stood for. The Harlequin, before he
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