Examples Of Equality In Harrison Bergeron

The problem with an equal society is that no one would be able to be their selves. In order for everyone to be equal, there would have to be some consequences for those who rebel against the law. Also, the handicaps would be necessary in order for everyone to be equal. This would give the government complete control over a society which could also cause problems. Harrison Bergeron is a vivid representation of the potential a government could have on a society, and the dangers of an equal society.

Kurt Vonnegut’s unique story “Harrison Bergeron,” displays a theme which is a warning about the dangers of equality, which is equality is a hindrance to an individual’s success and society’s success, but this hindrance is ironically, unequal. In the story, Harrison and his bride are arrested for their unwillingness and inability to stay within the bounds of equality enforced by the Handicapper General. Equality hinders the success of an individual like the weights hinder the beauty and grace of the ballerinas in the story. Equality doesn’t promote everyone to be equally better, but to be unequally worse. Handicaps are no use in ensuring equality, because one’s strengths will always shine through, such as Harrison’s strength and wit, or the

Imagine a world where everyone is equal and no one is stronger, faster, or smarter than anybody. Imagine a constitution were everyone is equal. The government makes everyone equal by making everyone handicap and no one is better stronger faster are smarter than anybody.In the story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut propaganda and utopian is used to control citizens so everyone is equal due to the 211th 212th and 213th Amendments.

In “Harrison Bergeron” the citizens are considered equal. However the citizens are not truly equal. I disagree about everyone being truly equal in the story Harrison Bergeron, because some of them had to wear painful handicaps, and the non-handicapped people having an unfair advantage over the handicapped people.

Have you ever thought what the world would be like if everybody was equal. Well in this essay you will find out why it would be a good idea. Harrison Bergeron is a book about a man named Harrison who lives in a total equal world where no one is better than anybody. Harrison has escaped prison and is now on the run where he finds himself on live television and dances with a ballerina then gets shot by the Handicapper general in front of his family. The short story Harrison Bergeron everybody was equal because everybody has the same intelligence because of the earpiece they have to wear. The Next reason that everybody is equal is that everybody that is pretty has to wear masks so nobody is uglier than anybody else. My last reason that everybody is equal is that everybody weighs the same due to weights they wear.

To be equal is to be the same in quantity, size, degree, or value. In the story “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut creates a satirical society where everyone and everything is “equal.” It is my understanding that race, beliefs, appearances, and abilities in American societies do not define equality. In fact, I would say that the American society is the most diverse out of any other. When I hear about equality, I often think of this quote by a man named Osho, “Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you. I am I.”

To have a perfect society, everyone must be exactly the same, no one can be any better. This is the only way you can get an ideal society. That sounds great right? Maybe not. In Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, the society in America is controlled by the government by series of handicaps keeping the people from being unique, it’s a game of total government control.

Is equality possible? Is equality fair? “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr is a dystopian story set in the future. The Bergerons, George, Hazel, and Harrison, are a family living in a time of enforced handicaps. These handicaps are intended to make all citizens the same. In “Harrison Bergeron” the theme, equality is impossible, is shown by Hazel’s, Harrison’s, and the Ballerina’s actions.

Life can be equal but it can never be fair, so does that mean an equal society never exist? In “Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, the theme is shown by how forcing equality where no one is smarter, stronger, or more beautiful than anyone else can cause damage to the society.

There is indeed a manly and legitimate passion for equality which rouses in all men a desire to be strong and respected. This passion teds to elevate the little man to the rank of the great. But the human heart also nourishes a debased taste for equality, which leads the weak to want to drag the strong down to their level and which induces men to prefer equality in servitude to inequality in freedom. (Tocqueville 57) Equality is given at one’s starting point in life. In the story it is achieved throughout the characters’ lives. Everyone should have an equal starting point to be equal (Atkinson 10). “Harrison Bergeron” clearly exemplifies miscued examples of equality. There are many ways to go about becoming equal, but the story firmly shows

Some people are smart so the government has put an earpiece in that will buzz sounds in their ears every 20 seconds or so, some people are really strong so they have weights on them to slow them down and make them less capable so that weaker people are equal with them. All of these “handicaps” have plenty of drawbacks to causing equality. "’If I tried to get away with it,’ said George, ‘then other people'd get away with it-and pretty soon we'd be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn't like that, would You?’" (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 2).

“Harrison Bergeron” is a short story by Kurt Vonnegut about an extreme egalitarian themed dystopia, where in everyone is made to be equal in every area of their life. A man named Harrison goes against the system showing his natural potential they tried to hinder, and was killed for in the name of the status quo. Through out the story the egalitarian government seeks to make life equal and fair for everyone involved. So that no one person is better than anyone else. Uncontrolled equality being applied to people themselves, and the not how the system treats different people, may grow into shackles that chain down individuals. Hindering their natural ability and growth in exchange for emotional placation. Creating a

“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut is a short story that takes place in a dystopian future where total equality and sameness is ensured through artificial handicaps of extraordinary individuals. In this story, Vonnegut questions whether total equality would really be best for a society and if one can ever ignore the vast differences between each human that makes us all individual. He uses the character of Harrison Bergeron and society’s treatment of him to illustrate this point. This story could also serve as a commentary on the United States and our society’s constant search for equality between races, genders, and socioeconomic classes.

This means that it is impossible for everyone is equal. When Harrison is in prison his parents cannot show emotion because the government is controlling them to the utmost extent. They each have stuff to overcome especially the government. The people who are above average in strength are weighed down by buck shot and metal hanging from one of their body parts. This is displayed when the Mrs. Bergeron says “Why don't you rest your handicapped bag on the pillow/

the story. “Harrison Bergeron”, the narrator, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., describes the modern society in the year of 2081. In this society, the epitome of equality is the golden rule, which is enforced by adding limitations or rather, “handicaps”, to those who bear physical, mental, or any talent or prowess whatsoever. For example, Harrison Bergeron, who was the ideal specimen (he was intellectually gifted, had the physical appearance of Hercules, or to sum it up, was a want-to-be superman), was given weights to counter his mountain of muscles, radios (boom boxes) glued to his ears to limit his cognitive function, and was basically an abomination of metal. These Handicaps made sure that Harrison would not have an advantage, making everything “equal”