Themes Of Harrison Bergeron

I believe the theme is equality is not possible. Because if you look at the story you see the government is inhibiting all the different things the people have, like strength, intelligence, beauty. If you noticed for these rules to be enforced there needs to be someone without the hindrance IE the handicapper general, so it's not equal then right? Even now as i think about it the other reason we will never be equal is free will. You know that little thing in the back of your head that says you know what i don't want to do this or i want to do that, that makes us all unique in our own special ways. Harrison Bergeron was fighting for that free will that unique little spark that gives us our passions and desires. Because he knew without that free will the world would be bland and we all would be carbon copies of each other. …show more content…
But in the end the handicapper general comes in and kills Harrison Because he was different and was showing the people that they had free will. And you see it in the reaction of George who before his headphones gave the memory disrupting pitch just realized people were meant to be different and they deserve the free will that's been theirs all along. But equality is a thing that people want to much now and days where all different and we need to use those differences, in a good way not in any negative fashions. So that's what i believe the theme is for this story it's just a struggle of equality and knowing that it'll never