Similarities Between Dystopia And Harrison Bergeron

In the stories Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron, Clarisse McClellan and Harrison Bergeron are the character that help the character see that live in a dystopian society not a utopian society that they have been lead to believe. Leading them to question their humanity and what they have become immune to in life. Clarisse McClellan opened up Guy Montag’s eyes to the emptiness of his life with her innocent observant questions, and her unusual love of people, and all things that were different. Harrison Bergeron from the story Harrison Bergeron was a 14 year old who was so frightening that he was arrested "on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government". (Ray Bradberry) He tried to show the

The government handicaps George’s mental abilities since they are above average, while Hazel’s mental abilities are average.

To begin, I think the society in Harrison Bergeron written by Kurt Vonnegut, is not equal because the character George has handicaps, which prevents him from having freedom like his wife, Hazel, has. According to the text, it says “He was required by law to wear it at all times,” and “send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantages.” The text proves that the society is not equal because George does not

The main similarity between the dystopian novel Brave New World and the short story “Harrison Bergeron”, is the type of government present. Both are attempting to control the individual lives of its people in order to maintain their “ideal” society. In Brave New World, the government uses constant feelings of pleasure in order to keep its people happy in their designated roles. In contrast, in “Harrison Bergeron” the government uses a series of handicaps to create complete and total equality in its citizens. Both are horrible.

In 2081 everyone was treated equally due to laws 211th, 212th, and 213th. Can you imagine a world where nobody could be smarter or stronger than anyone else? In “Harrison Bergeron” the law said that everyone was supposed to be equal in every way but everyone was not truly equal. Everyone in “ Harrison Bergeron” were being treated equally because they are being treated differently, they have leaders that are treating them poorly, and all of these problems could be because of laws 211th, 212th, and 213th.

Mildred watches television all of the time because she does not have a job and I think that what she was watching was so basic it lowered her thinking capabilities and her intelligence. Hazel does not have an earpiece to interrupt her thoughts, spectacles to lower her vision, a mask to hide her beauty, or any weights chained to her. So this leads me to believe she is just the average person the government based the handicaps off of. In the story Hazel says, “If you [George] could just take a few [lead balls] out when you came home from work” (Vonnegut 2). Mildred did not realize the consequences of removing the lead balls from the bag around George’s neck even though her son Harrison was taken away because of the removal of his handicaps. Mildred does not have the capabilities to speak fluently or think of anything in an above average level which makes these characters seem very similar with the basic things they say and do throughout both stories. The next similarity will show more about how the government has dumbed down society.

In the short story “Harrison Bergeron”, the government creates an oppressed society by making everybody equal. Set in 2081, the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments are added to the Constitution to create true equality. The strong are required to wear weights, the intelligent are required to wear radios that emit painful noises, and the beautiful are required to wear masks. This shows that the government is trying to create physical and mental equality by handicapping the gifted to the level of the average. This creates an oppressed society because instead of improving

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.

The differences between George Bergeron and I are striking, and we deserve a thorough investigation. We are separate in three ways: intelligence quotient and physical appearance. George lives with his wife, Hazel in an era where there’s nothing, but equality. His son, Harrison was taken away by the HG men, due to his mental and physical potential. In both story and the movie, George is shown to have handicaps and earphones, signally that he is mentally more capable of having an extremely high intelligence quotient; while I, on the other hand, does have an average intelligence quotient, but not as smart or as elevated as George. “And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear.” It is not very clear that George is fairly aged in the story, but the movie says else wise, but in my head, it seemed as if George was younger than the movie version of him. In the movie, George is physically displayed as a balding, aged man with the looks of a seventy or an eighty-year-old man. George often goes into deep

What ideas do you see linking the texts you have studied through your exploration of Utopias and Dystopias.

The book F451, written by Ray Bradbury, is about a dystopian society where knowledge, as well as books, are not as they are in our society. Instead, the is destroyed. On the other hand, the story Harrison Bergeron, written by Kurt Vonnegut, is a society where everyone is equal, in every way. The books Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron are both showing how the over controlling government can block out your own thinking. This theme was a warning for our society in the future.

In the story it says ¨And George , while his intelligence was way above normal , had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. ¨He was required by law to wear it at all times.¨(Vonnegut 1). This proves nobody was able to have their own thought no one could think of stuff the government did want them to think. In story it says ¨He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like george from taking unfair advantage of their brains.¨ (Vonnegut 1) This proves that if you were smarter you had to wear a metal handicap so you can be equal like everybody else and so you would not have a advantage over

The futuristic worlds created by Chandler Tuttle’s short film 2081 and Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison Bergeron” are both based on a society that believes it has reached pure equality among its people. On the surface they look like the same story. Both have the people wearing handicaps to allow everyone to be equal, and both have Harrison Bergeron dying at the end. 2081 oozes with a recalcitrant feeling toward the idea that the society has reached pure equality. Chandler Tuttle gave the short film a sense of rebellion through his choice to add different details to the story that allow us to get a better understanding on the protagonist rebellious intent .

In Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron, a society in the year of 2081 is depicted as a dystopia. This futuristic civilization was created with a vision of a utopia, where all could finally be equal, and competition would be a thing of the past, however, the opposite is proven to be true. Though this perfect world seems wonderful in theory, there are numerous reasons for it to be classified as a dystopia. One obvious characteristic of a dystopia is the fact that the citizens are meant to believe that the world they are living in is flawless, when in fact, there are many things wrong with it. The government in the story assures the people that there will no longer be pressure to compete with others to be the best, they will all be entirely equal.

A major theme that persists in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s story, Harrison Bergeron, is the correlation of absolute equality and the destruction of talent, creativity and freedom in society. The short story deals heavily with the topic of equality between humankind, taking the concept to an extreme through his predicted world of 2081. In multiple places through the text, you can see the connection between this equal world and the lack of freedom the people are given. The theme is already expressed in the introduction sentence, “Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.”. Just that quote explains how equality directly relates to their destruction of talent by