Everyone Doesn T Be Equal In Harrison Bergeron

First of all, people with above average intelligence must wear a mental handicap radio by law. For instance, George's intelligence is way above normal, so he has a handicap radio in his ear that will make alarming noises every so often to keep him from thinking deeply. This proves that there is no equality because people like George are forced into giving up their ability to think so that the society remains “equal”. Not to mention, everyone in “Harrison Bergeron” could not work hard and strive for excellence because they are all supposed to be mediocre. I know this because in the text it states “... since the announcer, like all announcers had a serious speech impediment… the announcer tried to say, ‘Ladies and Gentleman’. He finally gave up, handed the bulletin to a ballerina to read.” The fact that they gave the jobs of announcer to a person with a

The government handicaps George’s mental abilities since they are above average, while Hazel’s mental abilities are average.

Do you think society would improve if everyone was equal? Even though people may argue with me, I say that everyone isn’t truly equal in the story, Harrison Bergeron. I say this due to how people that are naturally born with above average intelligence, strength, and looks gorgeous has to wear handicaps to hide their unique abilities. Another reason is that some people are either respected or disrespected because of their special talents. Thirdly, some people in the story does not need to follow the law, even if they are a citizen of the United States, which means that everyone does not have equal rights.

Society should not be equal because we are all different even if they did put use in groups based on are similarities there still would be some difference. In the story ”Harrison Bergeron” the main characters has a son and he is different and they want him to be equal so they lock him up and but all these device on him to make him just like everyone else. “. He is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous.” “ Harrison Bergeron single the ones that look or talk different or dance better “She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous. And it was easy to see that she was the strongest and most graceful of all the dancers, for her handicap bags were as big as those worn by two-hundred pound men”.They want everyone to be the same so they make the special people handicap so they won't be different.

Do you think our society is truly equal? In the short story of “Harrison Bergeron”, the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments make everyone “equal”. These amendments make nobody faster, stronger, smarter, or as good looking as anyone else. I believe, however, that everyone in that story truly wasn’t equal. I know this because only the gifted of “Harrison Bergeron” had to wear handicaps, the handicapped were treated differently, and only on the outside, were they truly equal.

Everyone in Harrison Bergeron was definitely equal, and not in a good way. A lot of people wish to have equality, but not to this extent. In Harrison Bergeron, everyone was literally and painfully equal. There was no diversity in people in Harrison Bergeron; everyone was completely the same. If I lived in this universe, I would be unbelievably depressed. Although they are completely equal, they do not have tensions between different groups and organizations, and that is a problem in today’s society. No one is created equally, but the officials in the book made equality no problem.

One of the major reasons of inequality is the difference in power between the citizens and generals. Some people have more power than others making the citizens in the short story “Harrison Bergeron” not all equal. The story states the two different classes, the normal people and the Handicapper General. The Handicapper Generals play the role of the police in the short story. In the real world the police has a lot of power in our society. One of the most powerful Handicapper Generals is Diana Moon Glampers, she can kill, arrest and give handicaps to the people making her job equivalent to the police. Something that many readers caught in the text is that Handicapper Generals don’t have handicaps of their own. Even if they have handicaps wouldn’t they know how to take them out without the government knowing? The Handicapper General reports to the government when someone removes their handicap. If the General doesn’t report to the government how will the government ever know? The citizens are not just unequal by power, they are also unmatched by looks.

In “Harrison Bergeron” the citizens are considered equal. However the citizens are not truly equal. I disagree about everyone being truly equal in the story Harrison Bergeron, because some of them had to wear painful handicaps, and the non-handicapped people having an unfair advantage over the handicapped people.

Personally i think equality is giving everyone the same opportunities and rights regardless of their differences. I do not agree with the idea of equality in Harrison Bergeron. In the story they were trying to make everyone equal but even with all their handicaps the people in harrison bergeron were still not equal. For an example the handicapper generals in the story were not handicapping people based on the trait of leg length so one person could have less of a chance of being late because he or she is taller than most people in which he or she would take bigger steps resulting in arriving at their destination faster. although this is an extreme example it still gets the point across that equality is an impossible goal. Instead of trying

In the story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Vonnegut writes a story about a society where the characters are forced into a state of equality, or so that is what it suppose to be. The story explains of different tools used in order to give the illusion of fairness when in the end makes it completely unfair for the people who are more intelligent, stronger, or more beautiful. The underlying message that I received was that it is unfair to be fair.

“You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself in any direction you choose!”~Dr.Seuss. Today my generation has been given the chance to have freedom. Why you ask? This is because America went through a lot of arguing and fighting to get where we are today. I have been given the chance of a lifetime, to be in a world that I can be what I want and make decisions of my own. When I think of freedom I think of people who have chosen to fight for us and stand up for what is right.

Will equal society ever happen? In “Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut, his story is portraying as Harrison, an attractive, smart, strong boy, against the government who created handicaps to bring the smarter people down to the same level as everyone else. That means “Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.” (Vonnegut 226) But since he’s everything the government don’t want anyone to be, he’s became a threat. Kurt illustrated that everyone will never be truly equal.

To me freedom is like a gift. Not everybody wants it but a lot do. The people who want it really bad, so bad that they will fight for it. It the same way with a gift, not everybody wants it but some people do and they

For example, many people have talents that make them of greater value to society than others. People may be stronger, more intelligent, taller, shorter, or good looking. This is evident in many places, such as the workplace, not everyone is capable of being a manager, but it takes someone with that special talent to be able to do that. All of these talents make a person unequal to others in the context of a specific talent. This meaning that although a special talent may make a person more valuable in the sense that they can do something, that someone else cannot. However, in the big picture, they are both equal because they are just being judged on a specific scale of equality. People are also unequal in the sense of their race. Not that one race is unequal to another, but in a sense that whatever race a person is born with can lead them to other opportunities than if that same person was another race. For example, on average a white man will earn almost $200 more a week, than a black man, both working full time jobs. This example also displays another inequality, financial

Why live a life with average abilities when we can enhance our abilities through genetic engineering on our DNA for the greater good? Genetic engineering is “the artificial manipulation, modification, and recombination of DNA or other nucleic acid molecules in order to modify an organism or population of organisms.” It is not exactly a science in a broad sense, but a branch of biotechnology, which uses methods of molecular and biology, virology, and genetics. Genetic engineering on the human genome should be approved because it has the potential to make lives and the world better. Genetic disorders could be permanently eliminated, certain genes could be reactivated for regrowth of necessary cells, eliminating many neurological disorders, and delaying ageing, which would expand scientific research in order to many world complications.