Harrison Bergeron,Kurt Vonnegut

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Harrison Bergeron , Kurt Vonnegut

This seeks to defend the proposition that that there is a need for individual differences for humanity despite society 's expressed desire to attain equality . The communist and socialist ideologies may have theorized the what is an ideal society , one that is classless or egalitarian but there are simply unacceptable effects if there is all aspects of individualism is excluded

The need for individual differences could be best seen in the short story of

`Harrison Bergeron ' by Vonneguts , Jr . where the author revealed that a society created to equalize humanity does not always turn out to be the best for the people . Vonnegut did effectively utilized different means to convey his message in the short story . Most of the power of the means is the use of irony and symbolism

Irony has a distinct was of telling people that things could not just be contradicted because it will bring out the most absurd in human understanding . His use of symbolism also complemented his articulate presentation of the roles played by the different characters which the showed the powers and limitations in failing to address what was obvious . He was able to deliver the message the equality is the same as freedom since in the story there was indeed a resemblance of equality which was made very clear at very first part of the story bur really the irony is that they are not free

Since the short story declares and portrays the equality of people , there was the need to control the tendency of some of the people who were borne with natural abilities and this has the effect of making these people as prisoners to the government . Harrison Bergeron was indeed the main character of the story . Thus as a result of his having an exceptional intelligence and beauty in addition to his good height and strength and beauty he would have to suffer some reduction to bring society to equality . This was therefore done by letting him to carry huge handicaps

The handicaps imposed consisted of having to suffer distracting noises which essentially put him into an individual who will lack focus in what he desired to do . In addition the was also given excess weight of about three hundred pounds , which was enough to almost make immobile as way of restraining his use of intelligence for the purpose of preventing the declared policy that everybody is equal

Because of his many natural gifts as illustrated earlier , it was still necessary to give him eyeglasses to cause him to headaches . Having headache would deprive of the faculties of thinking which could otherwise for productive use . But equality was a greater value than productivity hence the rule must be enforced . To deprive Bergeron of his beauty he was also added cosmetic changes to make him ugly

What was awaited to the end the story was whether equality declared and implemented by those given the...