Inequality In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron

The Inequality for Someone's Intelligence and Beauty Instead of embracing the way people are, why lower someone's intelligence and beauty for others to feel equally treated? In “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut, demonstrated how the government was not allowed for others to be themselves. The people disliked how the society used to be because they would always be competing with each other. Every individual had to distribute their wealth and power because people’s ranking was non existent. Having the brightest individuals handicapped was one of the best ways everyone can be equal in the society. I believe this short story displayed inequality of the brilliant people because they restrain them from being themselves, made the less skillful …show more content…
Just for an instant second if they would remove these handicaps the government would get notified. nd without the heaviness around his neck. These handicaps weighted so much, but the government didn’t care or worried if something ended up occurring to them. For instance, pulling a muscle and causing an injury. People who are equally treated don’t suffer more than others. In “Harrison Bergeron” it didn’t show us the equality the society actually had, they wanted the people with intelligence and beauty have a taste of how it felt to be unintelligent and not the best …show more content…
They wanted to have an equal society, but they were not demonstrating it to the people with better features. They were getting treated very poorly. Men and women who were agile had to wear handicaps that weighted so much. They didn’t care if something could happen to them, for instance, increasing their low back pain and increasing the pressure of their blood vessels. It seemed as if the only priority the government had was to make sure the unskilled people felt like they were able to fit in their society. Instead of progressing their intelligence they wanted all the people to stay average. If they ever removed their handicaps they would go to jail, but at the ending it showed us how if they ever see people without their handicaps they would shoot them to death. The Handicapper General killed the Emperor and the Empress just by removing their handicaps and masks. Instead of bringing them down and take them to prison they were shot to death and she even threatens the musicians to put their handicaps back on before she also killed