Harrison Bergeron: An Argument Of Equal Rights

Do you wonder what it is like for people who are different? How their life is affected by others opinions and thoughts? “Society looks down upon freakish and extraordinary individuals alike and views them with suspicion… they especially fear loners, those mysterious creatures who pursue their own values…?” (par.4). This quote from, “The Sociology of Leopard Man,” can be true to some people because society does do this to people who are different. Many people can agree with this statement about society looking down on individuals with different thoughts. These individuals change their appearance to get attention and no matter what they do society will not like these individuals beliefs. These are reasons why society looks at them in a bad way.

In the story “Harrison Bergeron” everyone was treated equally. No one was really smarter than anyone, prettier, or stronger than anyone else. The people who were above the normal state of place had to use a handicaps to make them less different from other people. At the beginning in April, the HG men took Hazel and Georg’s son away from them. He was way above the handicap. The parents weren’t really able to think about this moment because Hazel had a an intelligence where she couldn’t really think a lot. Hazel only thought in short verse. George was an above average, so he needed handicap in his ears so he wouldn’t be able to think for a long period of time. The balleterias on the screen had to wear the same masks and weights so no one could

To be equal is to be the same in quantity, size, degree, or value. In the story “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut creates a satirical society where everyone and everything is “equal.” It is my understanding that race, beliefs, appearances, and abilities in American societies do not define equality. In fact, I would say that the American society is the most diverse out of any other. When I hear about equality, I often think of this quote by a man named Osho, “Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you. I am I.”

When debating whether or not United States have lived up to the revolutionary standard in the Declaration of Independence, many people question whether or not United States have enforced “all men are created equal”. At the time when the Declaration of Independence, “men” only referred to white male, and the founding fathers did successfully enforced such statement, but today’s definition of “men” has expanded to all United States legal residents and citizens. By this definition, I believe the United States failed to uphold this ideal because there still are many Americans, especially the conservatives, who are denying or

It’s a common thought that everyone should be equal, but is that really what’s best for society? Kurt Vonnegut, in Harrison Bergeron, created a universe where everyone was equal to each other, or so it seems. In the short story, the world is set in 2081, where everyone has to be equal to everyone else, or they’ll get punished. The focus is about a couple, George and Hazel, who has a genius son, Harrison, but he was taken away for plotting to overthrow the government. However, George and Hazel do not remember their son, due to Hazel’s “average” intelligence, and George’s transmitters, which blow an ear-piercing sound every twenty minutes to prevent him and others from taking advantage of their intellect. Everyone else in this community is like George and Hazel, who have handicaps to prevent them from reaching their full potential, which could possibly be a safety hazard. When finding the deeper meaning of the story, one may find that maybe this society isn’t really equal, and maybe the world wouldn’t be better if everyone was the exact same. This society illustrates the extremities a community would have to go to just to have the same abilities, strengths, and looks.

Since the genesis of time people have strived to achieve complete equality. We have tried to give people “equal rights” nonetheless it has failed to create perfect uniformity. Now imagine a world where government has created rules and regulations that bring people down to the same level. Imagine what would happen if the government decided to create equality through regulating publics’ intelligence, wealth, power and attractiveness. It might sound like a perfect place for residing until we don’t go in its dept. Imagine how a government would accomplish this mission. Answer to that question can be found in a short dystopian fiction story called Harrison Bergeron written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The story sets the plot in 2081. Keeping in mind the story was first

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" This is one of the earliest lines in the Declaration of Independence. It signifies the equality that Americans couldn’t find but were eager to give it, or share it with their people. The creed and color, nationality were not of high significance. Women too were supposed to be given equal rights and duties in the development of nation that Continental Congress wanted to make. Similarly, the Native Indians were to be included in their mission for prosperity and against the monarchism.

In the first place, it should be common knowledge that everyone deserves to be treated equally. When one is born, we are automatically entitled to certain rights, for we are all built the same way internally. We have the same organs, the same brain, and quite frankly the same external parts as well. Things may differ in size and color, but essentially it is the same. The majority of human beings have similar thoughts, needs, and dreams. Everyone should be able to posses the absence of stigma and equal opportunities to other human beings. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and people are neglected their basic birth rights. We have come a long way in today’s times compared to where we used to be but people are still discriminated against. In the civil war things were very different from today, an average African-American was shrouded in inappropriate assumptions about their character.

beginning of the Declaration of Independence that “all men are equal,” and back then, even still,

What gives us the right to judge people on the way that they look? In Human Family by Maya Angelou and Barack Obama’s speech on Race they share Common beliefs, they are that everyone is the same, everyone has the same goals, what makes one person different? On the inside everyone has the same stuff for the most part, right? Of course there are a few exceptions but for the most part everyone is the same. Everyone wants and deserves education.

One of the things talked about in the Declaration of Independence is that everyone is created equal, meaning that your race, ethnicity, or religion does not matter. Now, we have evolutionized and finally understand that this does not determine our social class and we treat everyone the same. In the Declaration of Independence it is shown as “We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal.” The author, Thomas Jefferson, and Continental Congress put this in the document, not just because some people wanted it, but because it was something that they believed in. Sometimes, we see equality happening, but many times, people do not understand that they need to change their attitude because the Continental

The government has attempted to say that we are all equal when they have proven otherwise. In the Declaration of Independence, it states, “...all men are

Thomas Jefferson indicates in the Declaration of Independence that, “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights”. Since all men are created equal, there should be equality and nondiscrimination for everyone. History has shown the injustice of African Americans and how our country has evolved against racism, but now there is a new form of discrimination of those of other sexual preferences, such as gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. They face many challenging obstacles such as civil rights, marriage, and social discrimination. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community

In the Declaration of Independence it states “ [...] all men are created equal.” This means any race black, white, hispanic, or asian are equal. One cannot argue with the notion that when we both bleed we bleed the same blood, and there’s no difference between people except their personalities. Race doesn’t defines if someone deserve freedom and justice. People who live in the same country should all be given the same rights, laws, rules, and regulations no matter what race or gender. To understand this finding why people of different races or genders have to fight for freedom when we deserve it as equals.

The phrase “all men are created equal” (The Declaration of Independence) might be one of the most recognizable from the Declaration of Independence, unfortunately, it also represents one of the most poorly upheld values of the document. America’s struggle with an intense racial divide wasn’t isolated to this one great injustice or even just one race. Take for example, the horrific treatment and mass genocide of Native Americans largely during