Harrison Bergeron is a futuristic story set in the year 2081 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The story highlights a scenario where everyone is living in the American dream of equality in society. In such a society, the people who are regarded as being superior are required by law to wear handicaps and several hideous marks. The story suggests that equality is something that is not worth to be strived for in the society and that implantation will be able to achieve outcomes that are dangerous to the society. To be able to achieve equality in the society, both physically and mentally, the beautiful ones are required to be singularly identified and suffer. The citizens are forced thus to hide from the government as the consequence of showing one's talent
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In God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater describes her as "a very old virgin who was to dump to live; no one had been able to love her since there was no reason to love, she was ugly, boring and occupied the bottom low…" (Vit). Diana Moon represents the very low and the bottom of the society, and this allows her to occupy a powerful place in the society. She uses this to ensure that no one in the society is better and equal than her thus being able to achieve the idea of equality. She represents the equality that the society is driving towards every time. It is a world that everyone is on the same level as everyone else and that no one is different from the …show more content…
He highlights that it is important for society to achieve this median as a failure to do so would result in the society becoming a living hell for all individuals. Marton talks of Vonnegut's themes of satirizing the government by destroying the individuality of a person. He says "characters to do evil in the name of good" (Marton). On one side there is the equality that is represented by the General Handicapper and in the other is one that is represented by the characters mentioned above. Both extremes presented in this story has negative consequences, and thus the kind of utopia that should be celebrated in the society is one that allows for individuality and
In God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater describes her as "a very old virgin who was to dump to live; no one had been able to love her since there was no reason to love, she was ugly, boring and occupied the bottom low…" (Vit). Diana Moon represents the very low and the bottom of the society, and this allows her to occupy a powerful place in the society. She uses this to ensure that no one in the society is better and equal than her thus being able to achieve the idea of equality. She represents the equality that the society is driving towards every time. It is a world that everyone is on the same level as everyone else and that no one is different from the …show more content…
He highlights that it is important for society to achieve this median as a failure to do so would result in the society becoming a living hell for all individuals. Marton talks of Vonnegut's themes of satirizing the government by destroying the individuality of a person. He says "characters to do evil in the name of good" (Marton). On one side there is the equality that is represented by the General Handicapper and in the other is one that is represented by the characters mentioned above. Both extremes presented in this story has negative consequences, and thus the kind of utopia that should be celebrated in the society is one that allows for individuality and