Government Control In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron

Kurt Vonnegut wrote this story to show that he was against government control . Vonnegut wrote a story called “Harrison Bergeron”, the idea of equality were mistaken in the story because everything was mistaken, nobody can be the same or equal. People should be able to express their opinions and feelings, everyone have their own mind. Harrison is shot by Handicapper general at the Ballet because he take his handicaps off and he was not supposed to. If everyone would be the same, life would be boring. However, I’m going to prove that each and everyone should be able to express themselves, no one have to have same rights or be equal, everybody should be different.
Governmental control is being displayed by “Vonnegut’s short story demonstrates the dangers of governmental control and ignorance through showing what a true equality could lead to” (Perschon). This tells us that our government control is bad and ignorant, government can do a lot of bad things to people. The second quote of governmental control is “The rule of …show more content…
“We adhere to the values of respectability and responsibility which constitute our tradition.” Then he added, “We believe in law and order and in the principle that all laws apply equally to all citizens” (Kennedy). Everyone should respect the past and people should have their own responsibilities, and have respect for others. If anything would ever get wrong, try again “That’s all right-” Hazel said of the announcer, “he tried. That’s the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so hard” (Vonnegut). It’s okay to try something and fail or to fail and then try again, the biggest thing is that he tried and he didn’t say I’m not going to try/ or do something. Nobody have to be the same or do same things everyone is doing. Everyone have their own actions/opinions, nobody is