Harrison Bergeron Character Analysis

Everyone has their own world in their mind, and in their mind, an ideal world exists, which called, ‘Utopia.’ In “Harrison Bergeron,” the short fiction written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., equality forms the utopia for the most of the people. They can live without discouragement and frustration from being different, but it brings tragic results to human beings. This story implies that to achieve a utopia of the world, it should not formed with the equality of people’s abilities; it needs to be accept differences between people, and not limits others’ innate talents. Handicaps, ballerinas, and Hazel are three evidences that show how ‘too much equality’ ruins human society by no freedom and regression. Handicap is the biggest symbol of limiting the one’s ability, and in the literature, it comes out frequently, represents it is the strongest symbol which makes society destroy and decline. Handicaps mean, there are no freedom to people, and it makes big different, because there are people, who controls other people, who don’t have any power to resist. It’s make the difference in the social status, and lead to the decline of the world progression. In the story, handicaps make the utterly equal world by legislate law about wearing …show more content…
She has short burst memory, and she doesn’t have any handicaps on her body (724). This fact makes apparent that people who live in this society don’t have the own opinion, just follow the law and forget the thing even it is very important to them. She saw her son, Harrison shot by the handicapper general, Diana Moon Glampers, “with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun,” but she forgets about the fact and only has a feeling of sadness (728). This is one of tragic of the human beings. Even the tragic happens, Hazel just says “Gee-I could tell that one was a doozy” (728). These facts show that the equality gives a tragic to the human being and leads the human to