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Utopia, is it as great as we think? With utopia freedoms and choices are lost even if the idea is good in theory. In the Giver the society dims emotions and takes away color to keep every one the same. It also takes away uniqueness. It also happens in “Harrison Bergeron”. Their way of making everyone the same is more violent and physical than what we know today. Finally Pleasantville is a tv world in which it is black and white and everyone wears the same thing. In these books there are some similarities

tale, Vonnegut lures us in by revealing what our society has devolved into at the hands of the wrong system in power. In the name of equality, the attractive are mutilated, the strong are weakened, and the intelligent are handicapped. “The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal” (¶1) Vonnegut states in his captivating opening line. Through this dismal tale, Vonnegut reveals that forced and total equality is nothing more than a perilous fallacy. He suggests that complete equality is not as

Freedom is a capacity that helps people to choose, to behave without restrictions and prohibitions. It is a term that defines people’s rights and it helps people to behave independently. Freedom that is mostly expressed in the language of rights determines people’s acts as long as it respects the rights of other individuals. Self-respect and intelligence are also derived from being free. Kurt Vonnegut wrote a story named “Harrison Bergeron”(1962) which demonstrates the importance of freedom and being

world, it has become common for people to strive for equality; however, this could be harmful if taken too far. There would be nothing to make anyone unique, dulling the world of all its wonder. In “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, the year is 2081, and everyone has been physically altered so all people possess equal abilities. The line, "all this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the constitution," tells the reader that government brought on the equality. Some people

It’s the year 2081, everyone with above average abilities are wearing handicaps to make everyone’s abilities equal. However, human equality isn’t always necessarily having the same abilities or limits. To be equal to everyone is also being treated and thought about the same as every person. It also means that you have the same power as everyone. It is impossible for everyone to have the same capabilities, even with devices created to put a limit to your abilities. In “Harrison Bergeron” Diana

The Handicapper General, who is the head of the government, uses conformity and dehumanization to form an oppressive societal control over her citizens. The story opens by describing the setting. The narrator begins by saying, “The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way” (Vonnegut 1). This equality was forced on the people by the amendment of their constitution. For example, the protagonist of the story, George

“[E]verybody was finally equal”: Why Eliminating Competition is Not Wise According to Aristotle, “The worst form of inequality is trying to make unequal things equal.” In this quote, he talks about the unfairness in making everyone the same, when every person is different in some way. Competition is the result of those inequalities and is present in the world today. A lack of competition is hurtful because it leads to below average standards, boring lifestyles for everyone, and a corrupt government

Susanna packing her bags. Susanna confronts him about how rude it was to say comment on her appearance, and in order to forgive him, she asks him to walk her down street arm in arm. Fuller is humiliated with the idea, but does so anyways. The year is 2081, Hazel and George Bergeron are sitting in their living room watching television. The Constitutional Amendments has made everyone equal and handicapped, so no one person is better or worse than the rest. Hazel and George watch the masked and weighted

away with it—and soon we'd be right back to the dark ages again…" This statement by George Bergeron sums up Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s short story "Harrison Bergeron" in one line. "Harrison Bergeron" is the story of a futuristic United States in the year 2081, where all individuals are made equal regardless of what their natural born characteristics were. They are made equal both mentally and physically, all to the same measure of intelligence and strength. In "Harrison Bergeron" the society has become

The short, science-fiction story, “Harrison Bergeron,” by Kurt Vonnegut is a literary piece in which members of a community abolish the possibilities of reasoning to maintain peace. As said in the story: “then other people’d get away with it - and soon we’d be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else” (Vonnegut 2), the society’s government believed that with the introduction of uniqueness and superiority, conflict would arise, because competition to be better