Harrison Bergeron “In the year 2081, everyone was equal meaning that nobody looked better than anybody, nobody was smarter than anybody or nobody was able to do something that everyone else couldn’t do”. Dystopias are frightening societies. They are oppressive , grim, and damaging. Kurt Vonnegut does an excellent job of showing us in the short story Harrison Bergeron, where the government of the United States attempts to create a society of equals through amendments to the constitution. Kurt Vonnegut created a story with elements of a dystopian society, the society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world, he uses Bureaucratic control and Technological control as proof.
Bureaucratic control is used in this short story which makes it a society that is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through products, …show more content…
George was ordered by the government to put a transmitter in his ears because they felt that he was too intelligent and need to be like everyone else, his mind was being controlled by technology ,Every 20 seconds the transmitter in George’s ear goes off. “ A buzzer sounded in George’s head, his thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm”. The government wants everyone to think, act and do the same things because they want it to be a perfect society where everyone is alike. When George’s transmitter in his ears go off it’s because the government feels that he’s thinking of something that everyone else won’t be able to think about. Harrison Bergeron(George’s son) was taken away by H-G because he was very intelligent and the government felt that he would be a danger to society. Harrison then escaped from captivity after a couple of years and interrupted a ballet performance. He made everyone think that there was a bomb that was going to go off but
Bureaucratic control is used in this short story which makes it a society that is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through products, …show more content…
George was ordered by the government to put a transmitter in his ears because they felt that he was too intelligent and need to be like everyone else, his mind was being controlled by technology ,Every 20 seconds the transmitter in George’s ear goes off. “ A buzzer sounded in George’s head, his thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm”. The government wants everyone to think, act and do the same things because they want it to be a perfect society where everyone is alike. When George’s transmitter in his ears go off it’s because the government feels that he’s thinking of something that everyone else won’t be able to think about. Harrison Bergeron(George’s son) was taken away by H-G because he was very intelligent and the government felt that he would be a danger to society. Harrison then escaped from captivity after a couple of years and interrupted a ballet performance. He made everyone think that there was a bomb that was going to go off but