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Harrison Bergeron
The main conflict in “Harrison Bergeron” is between the citizens of the dystopian society and the government that has imposed handicaps on people to make them “equal.” The government of...
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Harrison Bergeron
Both "Harrison Bergeron" and Brave New World are examples of dystopic literature. Vonnegut's short story depicts a future in which society's concerns with egalitarianism have become oppressive in...
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Harrison Bergeron
In the dystopian society depicted in "Harrison Bergeron" it's considered unacceptable for anyone to be smarter than anyone else. Harrison's father George certainly falls into this category. A...
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There is something unrealistic, it should be noted, at the heart of Harrison Bergeron's character: everything about him is larger than life. He is only fourteen years old, and yet he is already an...
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Harrison Bergeron
In Vonnegut's celebrated short story "Harrison Bergeron," the United States Constitution has been amended to ensure that each citizen is completely equal in every facet of life. In the year 2081,...
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Harrison Bergeron
In Kurt Vonnegut's satire, "Harrison Bergeron," there are, among others, the following elements of figurative language: SATIRE The entire first paragraph is satiric as Vonnegut writes that in the...
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The major goal of this society is, evidently, to render everyone equal: no one is smarter than anyone else or better looking or stronger or faster or more graceful. People who would be smarter or...
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George and Hazel are Harrison Bergeron's parents, who live a difficult, oppressed life under the government's strict equality policy. In Vonnegut's celebrated short story "Harrison Bergeron," the...
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The ballet is an example of situational irony, which occurs when events turn out differently than we expect. The ballet is ironic because Harrison and the ballerina dance beautifully together,...
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One effect of Harrison declaring himself emperor is that he pulls off all the handicappers that constrain his movements, setting himself free. Second, he chooses an empress, saying he will pick the...
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Harrison Bergeron
Kurt Vonnegut's celebrated short story "Harrison Bergeron" is considered a dystopian science fiction short story that is satirical in nature. In "Harrison Bergeron," Vonnegut creates a dystopian...
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The citizenry of America in 2081 have been made equal in order to take away their civil rights, desensitize them, and control them. By not allowing a person to be superior to anyone else,...
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He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren't really very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and...
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The prevailing atmosphere is one of oppressive absurdity. This is a world in which citizens are forced to wear handicaps as part of an attempt by the government to make everyone equal. The...
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Harrison made choices that resulted in his being taken away by the "H-G men"—the men working for the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers—as we learn when his father, George, thinks briefly...
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"Harrison Bergeron" is set in a society in which everyone is "equal." The word "equal," however, is ambiguous and Vonnegut's dystopia has settled on the worst possible interpretation, which is...
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When Harrison Bergeron enters the television studio, the first thing he does is to proclaim himself Emperor. The second is to demand obedience from everyone. The third is to declare himself the...
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In the opening paragraph of the story, Vonnegut boldly establishes the theme of equality by declaring that "everybody was finally equal" in the year 2081 and people were completely equal in all...
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The main theme in "Harrison Bergeron," by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is equality, but it is not the kind of equality which people generally desire. Vonnegut's short story is a warning that complete equality...
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The masks, earphones, body weights, and headgear are designed to handicap individuals who are more attractive or smarter or faster than others. As the narrator says in the first sentence,...
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Let's take a quick moment to define the literary device in question. What is an idiom? An idiom is a phrase or saying whose meaning is unrelated to the individual words within itself but instead...
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For one thing, Vonnegut was very concerned about the affect that television-watching had upon individuals. He felt that watching TV was such a passive activity that it lowered people's...
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All of these options except B are perfectly plausible answers. However, I would argue that D best expresses the underlying message of "Harrison Bergeron." All too often, we take our individuality,...
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Vonnegut describes Harrison Bergeron as looking like a "walking junkyard" as his cumbersome handicaps hang from his body without their typical military neatness. In addition to the extraordinary...
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“Harrison Bergeron” is Vonnegut’s jab at making fun of the American fondness for the ‘lowest common denominator’ in certain aspects of civic life. To the objective sociopolitical and...
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Harrison is taken away by the government men in the month of April. This is a time of year which, according to Vonnegut, still drives people crazy by not being springtime. And there's certainly...
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Vonnegut is most probably offering us a political metaphor for what can happen when people throw off the shackles of government control and live their lives the way they want to. The totalitarian...
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Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something that the characters in a story do not. In Harrison Bergeron, George and Hazel buy in completely to their society's values. The chief value is...
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In Vonnegut's future dystopian America, every citizen is completely equal in all facets of life due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution. In addition to the three...
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Although the setting is completely imaginary and resembles no real place, readers soon detect that the narrative is concerned with some of the most powerful and poltical questions in American...
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The climax of a story comes when the conflict or tension reaches the highest pitch. In "Harrison Bergeron" this comes when Harrison appears on TV, calls himself an "Emperor," rips off the devices...
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George Bergeron's handicaps are meant to reduce him to the level of an average person so that he will be equal to all others in his society. The society of 2081 has managed to make...
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In a work of literature, situational irony occurs when there's a discrepancy between what's expected and what actually happens. A prime example of this takes place in "Harrison Bergeron" when we're...
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When Harrison makes this statement, he is weighed down by all his handicapping gear. After he says it, he begins to rip off everything that is weighing him down, such as his handicap body harness,...
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The ear radio is of course one of the many "hindrances" that are imposed upon indivduals who are not mediocre in order to level them in terms of their ability with everybody else. Note what the...
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Great question! The film 2081 closely follows the plot and dialogue of Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s short story “Harrison Bergeron,” but there are several differences. The opening lines of the film and...
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According to dictionary.com, satire is defined as “the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices.” “Harrison Bergeron” is a short...
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Harrison Bergeron
In his short story, “Harrison Bergeron,” by Kurt Vonnegut, the author has developed a society that has tried to make everyone and everything “equal.” At fourteen years of age, Harrison...
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"THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better...
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Published in 1961, Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" clearly invokes the fears of many who, after the passage of Civil Rights legislation, feared the federal government would propose more and...
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"Harrison Bergeron" puts forth the notion that it is not absolute equality that we must desire in our society. As we are humans, each one of us will be different from everyone else, and it is this...
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Harrison's breaking free of his handicaps symbolizes a moment of liberation. In Harrison's world, the Handicapper General is in charge of bringing all of the talented people down to the level of...
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The tremendous influence of technology is easily apparent to readers as the entire plot centers upon what Harrison Bergeron's parents, George and Hazel Bergeron, perceive on the television. In...
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Kurt Vonnegut does not like the United States in 2081 as he has created it in "Harrison Bergeron." While describing the society in a seemingly matter-of-fact manner, the author's short, dumbed-down...
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Mediocrity as mandated by the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments of the Constitution is radically enforced by the use of handicaps. In the manner that racehorses have been handicapped by having...
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In this futuristic dystopian society, everyone is "made" equal through the use of handicaps that hinder their talents and abilities. So, good dancers are given weights to keep them from being...
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The defining characteristic in the society of "Harrison Bergeron" is physical equality, in intelligence, strength, and beauty. Three constitutional amendments and Diana Moon Glampers, the...
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The end of "Harrison Bergeron," when Harrison shouts on TV that "I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once!" he shows that he is a danger to American society in the year 2081. While we...
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At the beginning of the story, readers learn fourteen-year-old Harrison Bergeron was taken by the Handicapper General men and placed in jail. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took...
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Pretty much everyone in the future society depicted in the story has some sort of artificial handicap, from heavy weights to ugly masks. This prevents anyone from excelling at anything (for...
