Harrison Bergeron In the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut equality in the distant future is not possible The theme of the story is suggested through the characters actions and behaviors and through the authors style of writing Because the government wanted to achieve equality between people they gave handicappers to those who were more intelligent than those who were not born that way to make everyone think and act on the same low level of intelligence George while his intelligenc
There are many different types of equality in the story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr There are three main equalities that caught my eye Those equalities are how they say everybody is equal George having to have a mental handicap radio in his ear and how Hazel has a perfectly average intelligence Those are the three main things I am going to be writing about Kurt expresses that In the year of 2081 everybody was finally equal They werent on equal before God and the law They were equal ev
What is Harrison Bergeron satirizing I hypothesize that Harrison is satirizing the fact that he wanted to make the world equal and try overthrowing and becoming ruler when in the end it ends up failing and he doesnt realize he is actually making some people stronger by the things he does They werent really very good no better than anybody else wouldve have been anyway They were burdened with stash weights and bags of birdshot and their faces were masked so that no one seeing a free and graceful