Harrison Bergeron Theme Analysis

INTRO: The story that took place in 2081. It is called “Harrison Bergeron” this story is about life, a life where people are all the same,

The story “Harrison Bergeron” is about a society in the future where people with beauty, strength, or intelligence are given handicaps in order to decrease these abilities they were born with so they are able to be brought down to a level that would make everyone equal to each other. Due to this, one Harrison Bergeron stood against the government by removing his handicaps as to regain his freedom from them, all while being watched on television by George and Hazel Bergeron. The book “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut is a story that teaches readers that you should never let anyone take away your freedom from you.

There are flaws everywhere. No matter how hard you try to get rid of the flaws, they’ll always be there. The Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. shows with passion how even if everyone are without any flaws equal, there’ll still be imperfections and individuality. In Harrison Bergeron, the author focuses were severe intensity on symbolism to explain how even in perfections, there are flaws.

Vonnegut’s real point behind “Harrison Bergeron” is a serious attack on the idea of enforced equality (Mowery). At the end of the story, Vonnegut seems to say that there is no government capable of suppressing the individual completely. Rather, the inner strength of human nature at its finest is more powerful that ill-conceived laws (Mowery). In a criticism, Stanley Schatt describes when Harrison is dies, “It is the lost beauty, grace, and wisdom.” In summary, Today American society can

Harrison Bergeron is a 14 year-old boy, who lives in a dystopian society where everyone is "equal" because the control of the government. Harrison is a highly intelligent and gifted individual and is given handicaps in order to lower his standards and make him equal to the others. Harrison Bergeron is a threat to this society because he believes he is better than others in society, he will not be accepted, and he can doubt and seek changes that the government does not want.

In”Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., the family shares similarities and deferences with my family concerning point of view, standing up for what you believe is right, and how it fits into families today. The “Harrison Bergeron” has similarities to my family such as Points of view because in my family everyone has a different option on things. Another thing is standing up for what you believe in, in the story it shows a lot of how concrete Harrison belief is that the handicaps are bad and how he is willing to challenge the whole government over it. There are many families but all of them will have the differences good and bad.

The year of 2081 in Harrison Bergeron United States citizens was finally equal. The theme of this book can be one or more and I found 3 themes which are Freedom, Individuality, and equality is difficult to achieve. I would like to elaborate those themes.

In “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut expresses the dangers that could be caused in total equality. He deliberates the pain his characters have to endure through their handicaps they received from the government to assure equality in society. Vonnegut explores the dangers that total equality brings to society. Harrison’s attempt to free people of their equality is accompanied by Harrison’s parents, sitting on the couch having to deal with their handicaps while trying to focus on Harrison’s message. Equality is thrived for, however, equality undermines freedom and living.

“Harrison Bergeron.” a movie based on Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. short story that was directed by Bruce Pittman, is about Harrison’s struggle to fight against a system set in place by John Klaxon and his secret society. The message of “Harrison Bergeron.” is, that equality doesn’t necessarily create the “perfect world.” Because nobody can express who they are as an individual. The characters in “Harrison Bergeron.” Such as John Klaxon and Harrison himself, had conflicting ideologies that lead to strife and conflict between them.

Now watch me become what I can become!” (Vonnegut 234). This is a significant part of the story because as Harrison frees himself of all his handicaps, he is rebelling against his overly controlling government. This scene allows the people in the story to see that the society they live in is not normal and that it is preventing them from becoming their best selves. The last, most important literary device that the readers can identify is the theme. One of the themes in “Harrison Bergeron” is that attempting to control a society to achieve complete equality is not realistic. This theme was mentioned in the very beginning of the story, “They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal in every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else” (Vonnegut 231). Every single character in the story “Harrison Bergeron” was held under equal standards and possessed the same rights. In addition, the characters were forced to have nearly identical physical attributes and thoughts to keep them

Picture a society, far in the future, where everyone, by government control, must be on the same level. Would this be Hell or a utopia? This is the subject of Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, “Harrison Bergeron”. In this society, the gifted, strong, and beautiful are required to wear multiple handicaps of earphones, heavy weights, and hideous masks. In turn, these constraints leave the world equal, or arguably devoid of, from brains to brawn to beauty. With the constant push for equality among all people, Vonnegut reveals a world that society is diligently working toward. “Harrison Bergeron” is written as a form of satire with heavy irony, to demonstrate the clear difference between equity and equality in society. “Harrison Bergeron” is

Harrison Bergeron was an imprisoned fourteen year boy was considered above average in his society. He lives in 2081, the future, where everybody in society is equal. Nobody is above average or too much of something. People who is above average get brought down to everybody level by the use of handicaps that restricts them from being different from other people. In spite of the government trying to keep everybody equal, he challenges their laws and tries to be free from his handicaps. He shows bravery when he stands up to show he will not follow the laws of the government just to be another normal person in society; he’s a symbol of change that is waiting to happen.

The short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut is thought out in the not so distant future of 2081. Vonnegut introduces us to a whole new world in which all people are to be created equal entirely, by altering their looks, strength and intelligence. The character George is forced upon by the government to wear handicaps that keep him from being able to function beyond an average IQ, while his wife Hazel displays a perfect picture of average intelligence. Their son Harrison Bergeron on the other hand is a rebel towards the laws and ends up being labeled as a dangerous fugitive on the run trying to rise up against the government. Harrison Bergeron is quickly put to his death when the handicapper general, Diana Moon shoots him down for not complying with the laws. Through the characters, language styles and conflict, Vonnegut’s story

“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut is about a fictional time in the future where everyone is forced to wear handicapping devices to ensure that everyone is equal. As the story begins, George and Hazel Bergeron are sitting on the couch watching television. George is intellectually superior so every few seconds a raucous noise is played in his ear to keep him from being able to hold a consistent thought, which happens continuously throughout the story. This system of “handicappers” is overseen by a rather unsympathetic woman named Diana Moon Glampers. As George and Hazel are watching a ballet on the T.V., the show is interrupted by a bulletin warning viewers that Harrison Bergeron, George and Hazel 's son, has

The message of harrison bergeron is that total equality isn’t as good as it sounds and should not be the goal like many people think. But physical and mental equality should be what we should be striving for. What makes the story and movie different is in the movie it focuses more on Harrison and how he affects the setting. But in the movie it focuses more on harrison's parents and how the setting affects them. The message vonnegut was trying to make was hope of a possibility that the system will change, the people will come together and take control and the evil will fall. Harrison Bergeron because he wrote it so i think he'd like it more because he puts everything important into it.