Harrison Bergeron Paper
Harrison Bergeron is a story about equality and total government control. No one is allowed to be different from each other in anyway. People have to wear handicaps so that everyone is the same height, speed, and even amount of beauty. The author is trying to say that total equivalence is dangerous. People not being able to think about thoughts more than 20 seconds, very talented individuals throughout the story are held back by handicaps like the ballerinas, and people basically being tortured for being different.
The thought the government seems to have in the story is that if people want to be equal, everyone must have the same intelligence. No one can be smarter than one another. Some people are able to grasp and wonder about things longer than others naturally though, so the government put a radio in the ears of those people which plays a beep every 20 seconds to make them forget what they were thinking about. This is taking away one of the greatest features humans have. The ability to learn, think, philosophise. You can see in the story where George was crying about the …show more content…
Since everyone is the same though, no one can be better at something than anyone else. The announcer can’t speak correctly because of the speech impediment handicap he had to get. The ballerinas struggle to move with their mediocre dance because they have to wear bags full of lead balls. Even the main character say “They weren't really that good”. If everyone was the same, no one could thrive in their talents. Everyone would have the exact same skill in everything. Art would be dead because no one could think of beautiful paintings, sports would be dead because no one could excel at it, even simple things like spelling bees wouldn’t exist because no one could spell better than each
Harrison Bergeron is a story about equality and total government control. No one is allowed to be different from each other in anyway. People have to wear handicaps so that everyone is the same height, speed, and even amount of beauty. The author is trying to say that total equivalence is dangerous. People not being able to think about thoughts more than 20 seconds, very talented individuals throughout the story are held back by handicaps like the ballerinas, and people basically being tortured for being different.
The thought the government seems to have in the story is that if people want to be equal, everyone must have the same intelligence. No one can be smarter than one another. Some people are able to grasp and wonder about things longer than others naturally though, so the government put a radio in the ears of those people which plays a beep every 20 seconds to make them forget what they were thinking about. This is taking away one of the greatest features humans have. The ability to learn, think, philosophise. You can see in the story where George was crying about the …show more content…
Since everyone is the same though, no one can be better at something than anyone else. The announcer can’t speak correctly because of the speech impediment handicap he had to get. The ballerinas struggle to move with their mediocre dance because they have to wear bags full of lead balls. Even the main character say “They weren't really that good”. If everyone was the same, no one could thrive in their talents. Everyone would have the exact same skill in everything. Art would be dead because no one could think of beautiful paintings, sports would be dead because no one could excel at it, even simple things like spelling bees wouldn’t exist because no one could spell better than each