Harrison Bergeron Symbolism Analysis

Symbolic Acts Imagine what life would be like if you got the threw rocks at people or you lived in a world where people weren’t really alive, they were just doing their job with no care. People seem like they’re dead. That wouldn’t be the best society to live in would it? In the book, Harrison Bergeron, people had to be equal in order to have the perfect utopian like society. In another book, The Lottery, was about people who would be thrown at by rocks (if you received the card with the dot on it). The dot symbolizes death or bad luck. In another book,the Pedestrian, the whole town was basically lifeless bodies or robots. To begin with, If you had to be equal with everyone, at first,it might not be as bad, but later it gets aggravating and dull. If no one is better than you then how will you get better at whatever you do? In the book , Harrison Bergeron, everyone is equal. A boy who was only 14 was locked up because no one could fix him up to be just like everyone else. He was stronger, …show more content…
Harrison Bergeron has it whenever Harrison relieved himself of the handicaps. That was a symbol of freedom. The Lottery has it whenever it was talking about the black box and how mysterious it was.The black box symbolized mystery and fear. The Pedestrian had symbolization whenever Leonard Mead was walking alone and he describes his view to be like a graveyard(dark,and tomb like). This means that he was basically living in a cemetery like place.So, if you ever lived in one of these societies would you be able to deal with it? Just try to think what it would be like if you got to do horrible things to others (throwing rocks at people), you had to be equal with everyone around you (no one could be better than the other) , or you had to live in a world where you were the only one who seemed to still have a life inside. All of these stories have some kind of symbolism in