Harrison Bergeron

In the short story “Harrison Bergeron”, written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., the message to be taken away from the story is that total equality is not worth it, this theme is hinted many times throughout the story. In the dystopian society featured in Vonnegut’s short story, everyone who is not already handicapped on their own is ordered to wear handicaps all over their body as well as mental handicaps. This takes people’s talents for granted and they are not able to show them off to the world. In the story, the two main characters are an elderly couple named George and Hazel. They were sitting in their living room watching a ballet on television but the ballerinas were not the same as in the real world. “They were burdened with sashweights and …show more content…
This only happened because Harrison tried to speak out against a topic that he was passionate about but was murdered because he was trying to share it with other people. Finally, the futuristic world featured in Vonnegut’s short story does not embrace people’s differences, rather makes them all the same. In the scene where Harrison is on the stage at the ballet and performs the dance with the ballerina. Vonnegut’s writing style changes and used many descriptive adjective words. The scene illustrates a piece of art and how it gives the people a glimpse into how their world could be different rather than everything being the same. In conclusion the society in Vonnegut’s short story is looking at equality all wrong by creating everyone equal by taking away all their talents and thoughts. It also takes away everyone’s talents, their ability to have an opinion to share and their freedom of speech and does not embrace people's differences. This proves that that method of achieving total equality is not worth having to handicap and oppress the people of