“ I'm not pretty enough, not smart enough, not strong enough. I just wish we could all be exact equals.” Well do you really? In the short dystopian fiction story Harrison Bergeron, written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. We get a look at what a society would look like if all people were forced to be equal in every possible way. We also witness what happens when a young man named Harrison Bergeron breaks free from his handicaps. Harrison Bergeron was a hero for trying to show the citizens of this society to accept their advantages and not allow society to take them away.
More than likely the government implements theses laws to handicap these people who have more advantages from taking advantages of the ones with average or less than abilities, yet what is they were right, “ The Knob of the uprooted studio door was …show more content…
”(Harrison Bergeron, 101) This shows that instead of giving using these people amazing abilities to solve problems they are turned into the problem, and competing can make a person feel less than but it could also motivate people to strive and try harder. Even the very rights of humanity were ripped away from these people, as seen in, “ ‘My God--’ said George ‘ that must be Harrison!’ The realization was blasted from his mind instantly by the sound of an automobile in his head” (Harrison Bergeron, 38) as well as “ ‘ You been crying’ he said to Hazel. ‘Yup’ she said ‘ What about?’ he said ‘It’s all kind of mixed up in my head’, said Hazel.” (Harrison Bergeron, 200-205) These poor people were stripped of the right to mourn for they now late son, yet know must go on through their life not realising what they just
More than likely the government implements theses laws to handicap these people who have more advantages from taking advantages of the ones with average or less than abilities, yet what is they were right, “ The Knob of the uprooted studio door was …show more content…
”(Harrison Bergeron, 101) This shows that instead of giving using these people amazing abilities to solve problems they are turned into the problem, and competing can make a person feel less than but it could also motivate people to strive and try harder. Even the very rights of humanity were ripped away from these people, as seen in, “ ‘My God--’ said George ‘ that must be Harrison!’ The realization was blasted from his mind instantly by the sound of an automobile in his head” (Harrison Bergeron, 38) as well as “ ‘ You been crying’ he said to Hazel. ‘Yup’ she said ‘ What about?’ he said ‘It’s all kind of mixed up in my head’, said Hazel.” (Harrison Bergeron, 200-205) These poor people were stripped of the right to mourn for they now late son, yet know must go on through their life not realising what they just