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Examples Of Dystopia In Harrison Bergeron

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A utopian society revolves around the idea of perfection, A society that posses perfect qualities for its citizens. The short story “Harrison Bergeron” describes dystopian which is merely the opposite of a utopian society. In this short story the citizens are forced to be equal completely equal and allowed to faster, smarter, good looking, or more physically inclined than anyone else. On April 14th George and Hazel's son Harrison is ripped away from their family by the government. Harrison is a 14 year old boy who is 7ft tall with incredibly high intelligence and great athleticism who is now imprisoned for having such high qualities. While George and Hazel watch T.V. the broadcast is interrupted, displaying a picture of Harrison claiming he is highly dangerous and has escaped prison. Then Harrison himself storms into the T.V. station demanding he be the emperor of this society just before the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers, enters the studio and shotgun blasts Harrison dead. George’s mental handicapper forces him to forget what he saw and he and Hazel return to their Ordinary lives forgetting they had a child at all. …show more content…

In this society nobody can be smarter than each other, while everyone is basically brain dead nobody is coming up with new ideas or solutions. People who are naturally quicker than others are weighted down by sandbags. This way of trying to make everyone equal will slow the society down to make the citizens sluggish in the result of this nothing will get accomplished. To top this dystopian society off there is one person who isn’t exactly the same as everyone else. Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, gets to live her life perfectly normal without any imperfections. To make a society like this work the only way is to make everyone the same, therefore, not one person is “normal” in this

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