2081

The short story, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. takes place in the United States of America in the year of 2081. Everyone was equal. They were not just equal in the law, but also in beauty, quickness, strength, and everything that appeals to a human being. Everything was taken away from them, except for the lower class people, who were “average.” The government took away their talent through things called handicaps. Many laws prohibited the act of getting rid of the handicaps. There was

Rainsford and Zaroff the setting in the story was the desert/woods. The conflict in the story was that Zaroff was hunting Rainsford. In the “Harrison Bergeson.” The main characters were Harrison and the society. The setting of the story was u.s.a , 2081, a place where everybody

than anybody else. Nobody was better-looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else….The strong wore weights to make them weaker; the intelligent wore earpieces that kept them from taking unfair advantage of their brains” (2081 1). Their government has no room for any human rights whatsoever. No room for any other form of government other than a dictatorship; which differs substantially from the modern world government of a republic democracy. The modern society government

people for who we vote for, our say in different political things, and we have freedom of speech where we can make cruel punishments against the government trying to make them fix an issue, without them like arresting you or getting in trouble. In 2081, the government was the complete opposite of that. The government wanted the people to have no say in things and didn't anything to have more power than them. In the film we watched they made certain people wear chains and weird thing on your body

Equality: What America Lacks What is equality? To many people equality is the equal treatment of race, gender, sexuality, and religion. Let’s call this group of people Group 1. Group 1 are basically activists in the world, living so that one day everyone will be equal no matter of their race, gender, or sexuality. To others equality is nothing, the only ones that receive special treatment are the ones with the highest power or the ones with the most money. Let’s call this group of people, Group 2

becoming movies or short films. The short story “Harrison Bergeron” shows the future trying to achieve equality but failing miserably. While the words written by Kurt Vonnegut describe and set the tone well; the short film takes it a step further. 2081 uses lighting to show the enlightened, Harrison and the jaded, Glampers. The change in dialogue for the characters George and Hazel also shows that they are not as obedient as originally thought to be. The tone is very solemn caused by the change in

There is no such thing as a perfect community. Why? Because nothing is perfect in the world. Whenever one problem becomes resolved a new one appears. We can only continue trying hard to fix these new problems as they reveal themselves. And as we do this, new ideas will show as well. No community is a perfect community. Leaders who try to create a perfect community end up making things worse. People imagine these wonderful utopias where everyone is equal. In the short story "Harrison Bergeron

In the 2081 American society, the Handicapper General dominates over the country developing elaborate limitations she can force on the extraordinary people under her reign; in an effort to create total equality at the expense of equality. The recurring themes of equality and social conformity are ever present in Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s Harrison Bergeron. In this short story the immense presence of forced societal equality shapes how the citizens of 2081 America interact as a combined people. Diana

Fourteen year old Harrison Bergeron is a passionate character that symbolizes equality in society during the year of 2081. Harrison rebels against the government in a way that shows how everyone in “Harrison Bergeron” was not absolutely equal. This community and its citizens has lost its rights after the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution. Everyone was not actually equal in the story since people could not use their own intelligence, express their true beauty, and display their

the story. “Harrison Bergeron”, the narrator, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., describes the modern society in the year of 2081. In this society, the epitome of equality is the golden rule, which is enforced by adding limitations or rather, “handicaps”, to those who bear physical, mental, or any talent or prowess whatsoever. For example, Harrison Bergeron, who was the ideal specimen (he was intellectually gifted, had the physical appearance of Hercules, or to sum it up, was a want-to-be superman), was given weights