During World War II, Adolf Hitler referred to the Jewish people as "parasites" or "rats" dehumanizing them. Likewise, the people living in Brave New World and “Harrison Bergeron” also live in a degraded state. The control of society through technology causes the citizens of the Brave New World and "Harrison Bergeron" to live dehumanized lives. Oxymorons, which are combined contradictory terms, are used in both stories and help explain how technology dehumanizes people. The inventions and advancements of stories and the censorship used in the story society also demonstrate this. The use of oxymorons shows the dehumanization of people by technology. First, the most civilized person living in society is actually called a savage. In Brave New World, John, who comes from a wild reservation (he was born to a mother) is the most civilized person living in society due to his knowledge of the past (gained from books). He is the only commoner to have acquired this kind of knowledge because he once lived in a wilderness where books were not censored. However, John is always called “The Wild One” or “Mr. Savage” in this civilized society. By giving John names like this, it shows that he is not considered a human being by the rest of the people living in society. Instead, people treat and think of John as a savage or an animal. Later, when the most perfect people in a society are locked away and disabled or killed, it is another oxymoron that shows how technology dehumanizes people. In "Harrison Bergeron", Harrison Bergeron, unlike most others, is an almost perfect human being, being strong, handsome, intelligent, agile and graceful. However, he, like many others with these qualities, are given handicaps for being... middle of paper... Bergeron", people are given handicaps for making them all equally stupid, ugly, slow and etc. Making all the same, every individual uniqueness is erased, which also leads to the depravity of human traits. All people are special in their own way, which is one way in which people differ from animals. By losing this characteristic, humans essentially become equal to animals. As a result, government censorship of things is another way technology dehumanizes people. Oxymorons, advancements, inventions, and censorship are all things that come up in the stories Brave New World and "Harrison Bergeron." These things also explain the common theme in both stories. Therefore, the technology used to control societies also dehumanizes people in both two stories. In a way, these two societies described are also like our world.