This is a short story about the search for true equality of all United States citizens that has led to the creation of the 211th, 212th and 213th Amendments to the Constitution in the year 2081. Nobody was allowed to be stronger or quicker than anybody else, or reveal their beauty. People that were prettier or more handsome than the others wore hideous masks, people that were of higher intelligence had to wear ear pieces (referred to as a "little mental handicap radio") that would send out series of loud annoying sounds every 20 seconds or so, and people that were physically stronger had to wear sacks of birdshot to weigh them down.
The point of the ear pieces were to keep people of higher intelligence from taking an unfair advantage of their brains, and the point of the birdshot bags was to make the strong weaker, and the wearing of masks was to keep beautiful people hidden. George and Hazel Bergeron were part of this new life. George had to wear the radio in his ear and wear the forty-seven pound bag of birdshot around his neck, while Hazel did not have any such burdens because she had perfectly average intelligence, which means that she could only remember thing …show more content…
There was one scientist in Munich that found 85 percent of his subjects to be obedient, and other scientists found that teachers would administer up to the 450 volts even if they had to help the teacher by pushing their hand on the lever. “Morality does not disappear—it acquires a radically different focus: the subordinate person feels shame or pride depending on how adequately he has performed the action called for by authority” (590,591). This statement relates to George’s morality in that he did not want to break the law by putting a hole in the bag to lighten the
The point of the ear pieces were to keep people of higher intelligence from taking an unfair advantage of their brains, and the point of the birdshot bags was to make the strong weaker, and the wearing of masks was to keep beautiful people hidden. George and Hazel Bergeron were part of this new life. George had to wear the radio in his ear and wear the forty-seven pound bag of birdshot around his neck, while Hazel did not have any such burdens because she had perfectly average intelligence, which means that she could only remember thing …show more content…
There was one scientist in Munich that found 85 percent of his subjects to be obedient, and other scientists found that teachers would administer up to the 450 volts even if they had to help the teacher by pushing their hand on the lever. “Morality does not disappear—it acquires a radically different focus: the subordinate person feels shame or pride depending on how adequately he has performed the action called for by authority” (590,591). This statement relates to George’s morality in that he did not want to break the law by putting a hole in the bag to lighten the