Essay On Harrison Bergeron

“It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.”- Felix Frankfurter. This quote supports Megan B. Wyatt’s argument in her article “Harrison Bergeron an Analysis and Discussion on Dystopian Themes and American Trends,” that the world is slowly, but surely, moving towards a dystopia. I agree, because based on what we experience today, it is possible that the government will gain too much control over society and eventually become a world where our rights as individuals will be overlooked. She argues that similar to Harrison’s world in the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., too much equality can go more harm, than it can good. Throughout the article, Wyatt explains the dangers of government control in the novel Harrison Bergeron. According to the text, “ And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear” (Vonnegut 1). The quote supports Wyatt’s arguments that a lack of freedom in a truly equal society, would mean that if we all had the same personality and abilities, then we have no personality and abilities. Wyatt claims that in today’s government, where our rights are slowly being taken away, we are moving towards a dystopia like …show more content…
She believes much like in Harrison Bergeron’s world, our rights are slowly being taken away by the government, who is slowly becoming the top of the social hierarchy. With what she sees today, she has come to the conclusion that the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, is foreshadowing what our world will look like in a few decades. However I believe that is both right and wrong, because all of the government's efforts today are supposed to benefit us. All in all, I agree and disagree with Wyatt’s arguments because it isn’t clear what our world is becoming, because it changes