Harrison Bergeron Satire Project
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- A buzzer sounded in George's head, and George winces.Panic sets in.
- If I tried to get away with it, then other people'd get away with it-and pretty soon we'd be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn't like that, would you?
- BZZZZZZZZ
- I don't notice it any more. It's just a part of me
- Why don't you stretch out on the sofa, so you can rest your handicap bag on the pillows, honeybunch...
- I don't care if you're not equal to me for a while.
- The beautiful ballerinas
- I'd hate it.
- Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen, has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. He is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous.
- Through this story, Vonnegut illustrates the reality of total equality for all. As humans, we always desire for the things we do not have. We always look up to someone for their beauty, or their intelligence, or the type of characteristics they have. Therefore, people always think of the what if? Vonnegut plays with the idea of what if our society implemented the idea of total equality? In the story, the government limits the ideas and thoughts of those who are intelligent, limits the beauty according to its standards. By limiting these factors, by bags covering the beauty, the weight of the birdshot in canvas bags and noises that limit one's thought. By the world he painted by the story, it clearly shows the reader the total imprisonment of the people in society. Total equality for all is destroying the freedom for all. Equality for all destroys the God-given ability of purpose and one's life.
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