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Harrison Bergeron Theme
Harrison Bergeron Theme
December 15, 2007
By Anonymous
In “Harrison Bergeron”, Kurt Vonnegut explores the theme of forced equality in American society in the not so distant future. Vonnegut creates a world in which all living people are equal in all ways. He focuses on creating equality by altering beauty, strength, and intelligence as opposed to dealing with race, religion, and sex, the true issues of equality in society. He writes this story to teach the lesson that all people are not equal, but rather, they all have strengths and weaknesses making each uniquely individual. Vonnegut forces equality on America in the areas of beauty, strength, and intelligence. He creates a world in which beautiful people wear masks to cover their faces and strong individuals carry weights to make them equal to the weaker population. For the intelligent men and women, headsets that blast random noises are worn to interfere with intellectual thoughts. These handicaps are to be worn at all times and are enforced by law to equalize all human beings. Vonnegut makes Harrison very handsome, strong, and intelligent. He has to wear an abnormally large headset, huge weights, large glasses, and a red rubber nose just to offset his features.