Examples Of Inequalities In Harrison Bergeron

“Harrison Bergeron” is a story about Big Government forcing equality on citizens by the use of handicaps; in doing so they hold everyone back from their fullest potential. The year 2081 is oppressive to say the least; people are punished for being above average in intelligence, beauty, physical abilities or any variety of capabilities. No one is supposed to be more attractive, stronger, more intelligent or quicker than anyone else. The quest for egalitarianism is faulty; people who are born gifted are hindered by ridiculous weight bags, glasses to cause blindness and headaches, ear radios that send nerve racking noises every twenty seconds courtesy of a government transmitter and hideous masks are a few objects implemented to make

Finally, people in the story, Harrison Bergeron, does not have equal rights. For instance,  Diana Moon Glampers punishes the people who doesn’t follow the law, even though Diana is a citizen of United States. This back ups my point by how if everyone was truly equal, they would have equal rights, that means Diana would not be in charge of everyone and violate other people’s rights. People may argue with me by saying Diana is suppose to make sure that no one breaks the law, I say that it would help support my claim by how it means that everybody isn’t really equal. This clarifies that everybody is not really equal, even if there is there is a law that says everyone is equal. Thus meaning, that the law doesn’t really indicate everyone is really equal by how the government needs to force a handicap on people that are above average to balance everything out.

Kurt Vonnegut published “Harrison Bergeron” to express his thoughts of what a world with equality might look like. The setting of this takes place in front of a TV to emphasis how much is it looked to for answers. The government wants everyone the same and will go to any means necessary. In the constitution, “all men are created equal” can be found, and this short story explores the ideas of when that sentence is taken too literal. In “Harrison Bergeron,” Vonnegut paints his readers a picture illustrating the dangers of conforming three different individuals, Hazel, George, and Harrison, to the same level of expectation through the power of government control and television.

Kurt Vonnegut’s brilliant story, “Harrison Bergeron,” takes place in the year 2081. Thanks to the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments “Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else”(Vonnegut 1). Everyone seems to have equal looks and abilities but to make this happen; they have to limit people so they can be equal to other people. People with natural beauty, gifted intelligence, or high strength have to use handicaps so they can be average like anyone else. They give people mental radios, masks, and sashweights so no one will get jealous. Because of these visible handicaps, people can tell who is stronger, prettier, and smarter. In the story, they describe one of the

Total Equality Equals Totalitarianism To all those that believe that I am an elitist and an opponent to egalitarianism, I assure you that you are wrong. The purpose of my story “Harrison Bergeron” is to express my sentiment about how total equality is not the best way of life. Our founding fathers based this entire country on that the citizens should have a say in their government and that the government only originates from the consent of the governed. They also wanted individual freedoms for their people.

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.

Personally i think equality is giving everyone the same opportunities and rights regardless of their differences. I do not agree with the idea of equality in Harrison Bergeron. In the story they were trying to make everyone equal but even with all their handicaps the people in harrison bergeron were still not equal. For an example the handicapper generals in the story were not handicapping people based on the trait of leg length so one person could have less of a chance of being late because he or she is taller than most people in which he or she would take bigger steps resulting in arriving at their destination faster. although this is an extreme example it still gets the point across that equality is an impossible goal. Instead of trying

A perfect utopian living in a dystopia with 213 amendments making every single person equal and sees everyone without a handicap as an enormous threat to society, is this the true meaning to equality or is this a cruel punishment only for keeping people in check. "Harrison Bergeron a futuristic short story by Kurt Vonnegut jr," in the year 2081 a family with many handicaps living a dystopic future with one very special child named Harrison Bergeron who has no over whelming weakness and is perfect in all aspects of life ,as he turned 14 several h-g members broke through the door and secured a hostile l life for Harrison as they take him away from any life he had for trying to make the world a dream world, a utopian world and started to oppose the government. In this paragraph I will be talking how Harrison is the one true hero we need and should be admired for his actions, This is because he is fearless and is a role model Encouraging other people to rebel against the governments vile rules

“THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal.” these are the first words read in the short story, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut. The story is about a future where everyone in the world is, “not only equal in front of God and the law”, but also equal in every which way. Knowledge and looks and physical ability, etc. In the story, a couple is watching tv and witness their arrested son break into a ballet and dance a wonderful dance then shot dead by the handicapper general herself. That leaves a question, what the reader can easily tell from the story is that the author believes that equality is a bad thing that will corrupt our world, but is equality as bad or as good as everyone thinks? To finish, equality is not what we should need one hundred percent, but give everyone an equal chance and see where they take it.

One of the themes of this book is that equality is difficult to achieve. The author tells readers that it is difficult for everyone to be equal by demonstrating that American society where everyone is equal. Mr.Bergeron is not average and so does some special people in the United States. The agents of the United States Handicapper General had to force to make them equal by putting them in the handicap. The author shows to reader Harrison protest to Vonnegut in the television show that system will be collapsed by more people who are intelligent and stronger. Failure of systems and individuals what author wanted to tell readers.

Is everyone in the short story “Harrison Bergeron” really equal? Well, it depends on whether people are wearing handicaps or not. In “Harrison Bergeron,” the story states that it’s 2081, and everyone is finally equal. But is everyone in the story truly equal? Well I disagree because everyone is truly not equal in “Harrison Bergeron.”

Charles Evans Hughes once states,” When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.” In the story Harrison Bergeron, written by Kurt Vonnegut, that statement is repeatedly challenged and is portrayed as false in this “equal” utopia. A government tried to create an equal society by giving everyone specific handicaps. The handicaps brought the citizens to a certain bar of intelligence, athletics, and beauty. People such as Harrison Bergeron strongly disagreed with the law, and he even tried rebelling, but then got shot down. Does this sound like an equal utopia to you? Is this truly what equality is? I believe that in the story, that everyone is not equal. With the fact that so many segments are flawed in the

In America everyone is free, there are laws. Nevertheless, no one is a burden because of these laws. Everyone isn’t equal, however, they aren’t treated differently by the government. Those who are different get treated differently by society. The First Amendment states: “Congress shall make no law respecting establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances”. The difference between today and the society in Harrison Bergeron is that those in society treat each other equally. George, Harrison’s father, is intelligent except he was also handicapped by the government. He is handicapped with objects used to make him equal with the rest of the society. “They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else.” The narrator of Harrison Bergeron states. Forcing those who are above average to be like everyone else is not equality. In today’s society, those above or below average are treated differently by society, this era is not perfect, although equality has been severely needed. As a result of non-equality in both worlds, both are a dystopia. This era is a free yet society does not treat one another equally. In the Harrison Bergeron era the intelligent plebeians of the society are a burden of the government yet,

In the story “Harrison Bergeron,” by Kurt Vonnegut, the setting is the year 2081 and the government is controlling society. The government wants everyone to feel equal and to do so, they establish the United States Handicapper General. They feel no one should be smarter than another, more better looking than another, and no stronger or quicker than another. The government took equality to an extreme.

Equality has tried to be successful over the past thousands of years and in both stories, they accomplished that goal, but is it the kind of equality we want to have in our world? Well, in the stories “Harrison Bergeron” and The Giver, their vision of equality is not distributed fairly because in text of “Harrison Bergeron”, it explains that if someone is weaker than everybody else, the stronger people will be brought down with more handicaps or an object that restricts them from exceeding in what they are best in. An understanding quote from Samuel Johnson is, “It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.” (Samuel Johnson). This quote relates to The