“Having someone to love is a family. Having somewhere to go is home. Having both is a blessing.” The author for “Harrison Bergeron” is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The author for Anthem is Ayn Rand. In HB is about everyone being equal so they wear handicaps. Anthem is a collective society where no one can be an individual. Although “Harrison Bergeron” and Anthem are both dystopian literature pieces, their betrayal of family differs greatly. In both dystopian pieces the marriage is very different. The life
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Just about everyone in this world has always wished that things were more equal between people. Imagine if you actually lived in a world that was equal in every aspect. We can see what is like in the story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut. He opens with a very telling sentence “The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal”. (Jr.). In this year 2081 their culture values equality so much that everyone is equal in every way. For instance when Hazel suggests that George remove the forty seven
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Harrison Bergeron, was published in 1961 and written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The story Harrison Bergeron was put in Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine. The genre of the short story Harrison Bergeron is fictional, futuristic and fantasy. In the short story the year is 2081 and government made everyone equal. Harrison is 14 years old, and he was put in jail because he was planning to overthrow the government. Harrison was very athletic, 7ft tall, very intelligent and very handsome. George is Harrison’s
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The short story “Harrison Bergeron,” by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr., typifies the characteristics commonly associated with dystopian literature. In the short story, there is an illusion of a “perfect” (Read.Write.Think 1) society in a utopian world when in actual fact that is not so. In the beginning of the short story, the society is thought to be “…finally equal. Before God and the law.”(Vonnegut Jr. 1). This is not clearly shown, as society is brainwashed to think that everyone is equal when in reality
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The most noteworthy section of Harrison Bergeron is the first paragraph because the author utilizes his language to develop a theme and cleverly deliver a satire on Communism. To begin with, the noted section has the strongest writing because the writer includes extreme words to establish a recurring idea. In the first paragraph, where the readers second-handedly explore this “utopian” society for the first time, the first impressions that they get of the place are strict control and absolute sameness
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In the story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , it is 64 years in the future year 2081, and the government is in complete control. Instead of embracing everyone's talents and unique traits they make those talents and traits unusable by giving everyone “handicaps”. These “handicaps” are form basically a form of torture and if you rebel they will punish you, badly. Although it is not equal for everyone, anyone with power does not have any handicaps. The author uses techniques such as parallel
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Dangerous When the word 'equality' is mentioned, distorted thoughts of a perfect world and happy smiling faces are conjured in our minds. We fail to realize that we must sacrifice certain things for this so called "equality." The short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, embodies how it is not desirable to have a society where everyone is equal in every way because you would lose your freedom, individuality, and opportunity for growth. First of all, you sacrifice your freedom in exchange
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how they would both focus on the term “equality”. Harrison Bergeron is about a dystopian society and a lone man who questions society. Anthem is about an anti-dystopian society and has a lone man who also questions society. Both Harrison Bergeron and Anthem have societies focused on equality, but a big difference between the two are the character names. The names of each character differs as to what the audience is reading. In Harrison Bergeron, the names are specifically stated and are normal
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forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, radios inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic. One April, 14-year-old Harrison Bergeron, an intelligent and athletic teenager, is taken away from his parents, George and Hazel Bergeron, by the government. They are barely aware of the tragedy, as Hazel has "average" intelligence (a euphemism for stupidity), and George has a handicap radio installed by the government to regulate
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equal at the same level, no one is better than the next person. The problem is knowing if it would be an intelligent idea to use scientific treatment to lift up the people in the society that are not are considered not gifted. The short story ‘’ Harrison Bergeron’’ gives a different look on the society in a different century in life. Believe it or not it would be pleasant pro to have everyone equal to each, and look at in the same way as each other. But genuinely that would not be a realistic idea for
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