Harrison Bergeron and Satire Project
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- "Boy! that was a doozy, wasn't it?"
- "I don't mind it, I don't notice it any more. It's just a part of me."
- Even as I stand here"
- "I am the Emperor!" cried Harrison. "Do you hear? I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once!"
- "crippled, hobbled, sickened - I am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!"
- "I shall now select my Empress! Let the first woman who dares rise to her feet claim her mate and her throne!"
- While Harrison and the ballerina were dancing the Handicapper General Diana Moon Glampers came in and shot the two while they were in mid air.
- "Gee - I could tell that one was a doozy,"
- "Gee-" said Hazel, "I could tell that one was a doozy."
- "It's all kind of mixed up in my mind."
- "I forget. Something real sad on television."
- "I always do."
-  "Yup,"
-  He winced. There was the sound of a rivetting gun in his head
- "You been crying"
- "You can say that again,"
- "That's my girl,"
- "What about?"
- "Forget sad things."
- "What was it?"
-      In his story "Harrison Bergeron," Kurt Vonnegut makes the point that human nature needs to compete. This competition comes from any characteristics or physical attributes that differ among people. He demonstrates that through equality no one is truly equal, this is because when someone is considered more of something than others they are handicapped more. In being handicapped more they are no equal to everyone else, because they have to hide or be harmed more, because they were born more gifted than others. This society that Vonnegut creates shows people who have just given up, if they are unique in any way. Harrison on the other hand is someone who is breaking their social norms and expressing his uniqueness, and is consequently punished for it.
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