Equality In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron

Everyone is created equal and in the beginning, this changed as time went on. There are opposites and similarities in the world. It is this factor in which creates and fuels a society. In “Harrison Bergeron” they limited the intelligent and strong, instead of teaching and strengthening the weak. It would be more acceptable to lift up the gifted and make everyone equal that way, instead of bringing everyone down to a totalitarianism where everyone is limited and weak. It would bring a better, and positive environment for the society if everyone was raised to their full potential and not held back. A society in which everyone is lifted up and not brought down, would be more acceptable than the government that Vonnegut imagined. Kurt Vonnegut imagined a society in which the government took full control and equalized everyone by bringing the intelligent and strong, down to the unintelligent and weaker people’s levels. This made a totalitarian world and everyone was limited because of that ideal that was created. The government controlled the way everyone live and even thoughts. The government created handicaps and they are …show more content…
The handicaps are completely unnecessary for the citizens. The concept of equality is understood, but dragging everyone down to one basic level is not equality. It is unfair to those who have tried to become something more, and they aren’t allowed because they are “too smart” or “too dumb” and they have to do as the government tells them to. The government controls a large portion of the citizens capabilities, because the Handicapper General is in charge of how to handicap everyones beauty or strength or even mental capacity. A world in which everyone is dragged down is wrong and it should not be done. Everyone should be raised up that they are completely fine the way they are and not desire to be