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- Its the year 2081 and finally everyone has become equal! Not only is everyone equal but everyone is equal before God and in intelligence and physical capabilities as well. There was this one girl who's name was Hazel, she has a normal intelligence just like you and me!
- Harrison placed his big hands on the girls tiny waist, And then, joy and grace, flowed into the air! Not only were the laws of the land abandoned, but the law of gravity and the laws of motion.
- In his story Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut points out that there would be significant adverse effects if our mistaken ideas of freedom and equality were put into the hands of government and he also mentions what happens when citizens do nothing about it. He establishes this through the major characters of the story: Harrison, George, and Hazel Burgeron, the ballerinas, and the Handicapper General. The Burgerons and the ballerinas were used as symbols to ridicule the idea of total equality in society. Total equality would not only diminish human uniqueness, but it would diminish the mental and physical attributes of those who are blessed. The results of the enforcement of total equality, says Vonnegut, is a slow and foolish people and government authoritarianism.
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