That Hideous Strength

In "Harrison Bergeron" Vonnegut suggests that torturing your citizens is a dangerous method to use in order to achieve total equality within your country. The government tortures its citizens by making the beautiful wear hideous mask, the intelligent must listen to deafening noises that impede their ability to think, and the graceful and strong must wear weights around their necks at all hours of the day. George and Hazel Bergeron are trying to watch the ballerinas on TV. However, they are both

in the future, where the government have made everyone equal. A group of Handicapper Generals enforce the laws of equality. People are made equal by a device which brings them down to a normal level, which is below- average in intelligence, strength, and ability. Harrison is a genetically perfect human being that breaks his handicaps on television and shows the world the beauty of being free. He rebels against the government and

society of Harrison was dissimilar. In “Harrison Bergeron” everyone is not equivalent because some people are unappealing than others. For example, in the text it states that the ballerinas had to wear masks depending on how pretty they were. The more hideous the mask the prettier the individual underneath the mask. The evidence given to you explains the unequal appearance between the citizens. When you wear a mask it covers your face. If it covers your face how would you know if there are pretty or not

The Frankenstein that Mary Shelley wrote about changed the perception of the story that was told to me when I was growing up and saw on television. Throughout my childhood, Frankenstein was depicted as a stiff, giant, clumsy monster with a hideous face, scarred green body and with plugs protruding from his neck. Upon reading Frankenstein, I started to view him not as a monster but as someone who was born into a tragic life full of hardships due to his appearance and not his personality. The book

Dark Ages. It seemed to be almost a way of life and not just a bunch of campfire stories. But, in order to become a hero, people had to attain the necessary characteristics. Those characteristics include strength, selflessness, and bravery. First, one characteristic of a hero is strength. “Beowulf” demonstrated this when the main antagonist, a monster named Grendel, found himself with his arm “grabbed in an unbreakable grip.”(The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Earth Edition) Somehow, Beowulf

In a distant future, a country is made equal by modifying people’s beauty, strength and intellect. There is no individual in a society stronger, smarter, faster, or weaker than anyone else. The government achieves this equality by disfiguring the beautiful with repulsive masks to hide their beauty. The intelligent individuals get an earful of disturbing noises that hinders their ability to think or comprehend a conversation, and the physically strong wear pounds of metal to slow them down and impede

Benjamin Reed describes Hazel as, “so average even her name is the eye color between brown and blue. Her natural mental state is equivalent to George’s natural mind.” (7) Reed later describes their son, Harrison Bergeron as, “[possessing] amazing strength, god like beauty and stature and (presumably) a piercing intelligence,” (8) all of the features that the United States Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers, is trying to make uniform and equivalent. Diana Moon Glampers has Harrison

the monster was created victor was frighten by the 8 foot talk hideous giant. The monster had no one to teach him and show him the correct way of life which was victor fault for creating such a sensitive creation into a deadly weapon. Although he didn't see a problem with the monster being released at first this was the start of a horrible

simple, yet unfortunate, man. It causes one to think about life’s precious gifts and how often they are taken for granted. As the sad and unique story of John Merrick, “the elephant man,'; unfolds, all are taught a lesson about strength and courage.      When Sir Frederick Treeves first discovered John Merrick in 1884, he could only be described as, “a huddled mass of loneliness';(14). Merrick had a horrible disease called elephantiasis. This

The short story “Harrison Bergeron” brings into question the productivity that television contributes to society. This story, by Kurt Vonnegut, has been criticized as “a kind of desensitizing, numbing, and clearly thought-stifling, rather than thought-provoking medium that is partly responsible for the state of society.” Television, in reality, can be argued as a positive and negative medium that both benefits and hinders the public. Whether television is viewed as a beneficial or counterproductive