In a dystopian world, “Diana Moon Glampers loaded the gun again. She aimed it at the musicians and told them they had ten seconds” (5). If anyone were to rebel, they would be killed. In the year 2081, everyone is equal in every single way. No one is better than anyone else. This is the short story, “Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut.” Anyone with too much power is afraid of societys true intelligents.
In this short story one of the conflict. Everyone must be equal so no uniqueness is acceptable. George, one of the characters, is extremely smart. The handicap he was forced to wear was an earpiece that would ring around every 30 seconds which would scatter his thoughts. The ballerinas were beautiful so they had to wear a disgraceful mask to …show more content…
When George was watching the ballerinas, he noticed that they all looked exactly the same and become very skeptical of it. “George was toying with the vague motion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. But he didn't get very far with it before another noise and is your radio scattered his thoughts.” This shows how government is scared of what will or can happen when the handicaps find out what's going on. So they need to scatter and clear their brain so they will forget what they are thinking. Also once Harrison Bergeron tried to save everyone and become the “Emperor” and when The handicap general, Diana Moon Glampers came in and shot them dead with no words said because she was scared they would realize what's going on and know it's wrong. “... Diana Moon Glampers the handicap general came into the studio with a…shotgun. She fired twice in the Emperor and the empress were dead before they hit the floor” (5). This quote shows how Diana was scared of the true intelligence Harrison had in scared of what he would think about doing next. Also scared he would spark ideas into others to notice that something was out of
In this short story one of the conflict. Everyone must be equal so no uniqueness is acceptable. George, one of the characters, is extremely smart. The handicap he was forced to wear was an earpiece that would ring around every 30 seconds which would scatter his thoughts. The ballerinas were beautiful so they had to wear a disgraceful mask to …show more content…
When George was watching the ballerinas, he noticed that they all looked exactly the same and become very skeptical of it. “George was toying with the vague motion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. But he didn't get very far with it before another noise and is your radio scattered his thoughts.” This shows how government is scared of what will or can happen when the handicaps find out what's going on. So they need to scatter and clear their brain so they will forget what they are thinking. Also once Harrison Bergeron tried to save everyone and become the “Emperor” and when The handicap general, Diana Moon Glampers came in and shot them dead with no words said because she was scared they would realize what's going on and know it's wrong. “... Diana Moon Glampers the handicap general came into the studio with a…shotgun. She fired twice in the Emperor and the empress were dead before they hit the floor” (5). This quote shows how Diana was scared of the true intelligence Harrison had in scared of what he would think about doing next. Also scared he would spark ideas into others to notice that something was out of