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Examples Of Handicaps In Harrison Bergeron

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Have you ever wondered what life would be if everyone was equal? Well in the year 2081, the government made everyone equal with the three new amendments of no one being smarter, better looking, or stronger or quicker than anyone else. These new laws tries to allow everyone to be equal,but it really didn’t. Everyone in “Harrison Bergeron”, is not equal because handicaps don’t take away your abilities, handicaps are not useful, and it is not fair for the people with abilities to wear handicaps. To begin with, the handicaps don’t take away your abilities away but it just masks it. According to the text Harrison was able to plan his escape and act on it with the straps of equality on him. It says,” Harrison tore the straps of his handicaps harness like a wet tissue paper…” With or without these handicaps, he was still able to do things that the handicaps did not allow you to do. This is important because if people still have their abilities even wearing these handicaps, than that means that Diana Moon created them for no purpose at all but only to burden people with them. Forced handicaps is never going to take away people’s abilities. Forced handicaps is never going to take away

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people’s abilities. This proves that handicaps didn’t take the people’s abilities in “Harrison Bergeron”. Another reason is that …show more content…

Also,when she threatened the musicians to put back on their handicaps. They pointed a gun at them and told them they had 10 seconds to put their handicaps on. This displays that she was above them which proves the inequality of the story. For this reason, handicaps aren’t fair if the government don’t wear them. Diana Moon Glampers was allowed to keep whatever ability she had. As a result, the law wasn’t being fair to the citizens in this

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