Theme Of Harrison Bergeron

No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want” (Steinbeck chapter 1). George’s conflict was because of Lennie’s foolish acts but that did not affect the theme of the book. The failing action for the realistic book, Of Mice and Men, was when Lennie caused George a lot of troubles, and George ended up killing Lennie. Similar to that in the book of Harrison Bergeron the conflict was that everyone is forced to be equal, but the only way to be equal is by using the handicaps, which is not fair for everyone. The ballet announced to the audience, “Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen,” she said in a grackle squawk, “has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government.

Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.” (Vonnegut 1). This quote shows they would suppress their smartest people to an average level of thinking. This society does not want someone to grow in any way and realize how bad life is. Similarly a sufficient amount of the same points can be made in Anthem, they are just accomplished differently. In Anthem “equality” is not purely shown, but is attempted.

The Major theme of “Harrison Bergeron” is the government is the main power. In the story they are making people have handicaps so that they won 't be as good as they could be. The government knows that people will overtake if they really want to. But the government is stopping them. In the end of the story the government

George compares competition to the dark ages by saying “If I tried to get away with it, then other people'd get away with it—and pretty soon we’d be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn’t like that, would you?” Hazel responds negatively. This revulsion against competition may be the driving force of the everlasting dormancy in this society. Competition has always been what drives people to improve on themselves, and in turn improve the life of others. Eliminating competition isn't making everybody equal, it is force-feeding false equality at the cost of

Unjust laws need to be transgressed by the citizens in order to create an enlightened state, one that recognizes the higher more independent power of an individual. Thus civilians are an important aspect of bringing this change and aiding their governments to bear good fruit. In addition, Thoreau argues that if people did follow the majority instead of following one's conscience then society will overall fall into chaos with a corrupted state. Therefore, Thoreau views government as the greatest form of evil that people are obligated to go against by rebelling to maintain integrity of the government. Similar to Thoreau's works that invoke ideas about the way government and society should be structured to bring a more enlightened state.

When we think of propaganda, thoughts of dictators swaying their civilians to believe in a wrongful cause or which leads to a biased opinion. These tactics eventually collapse on themselves when the truth comes to light, but propaganda tactics are still being used today so oil companies and gray infrastructure advocates can continue to destroy the environment. Conservatives, along with their news networks such as Fox, use propaganda to make viewers believe environmentalist 's are whiney liberals who don’t get what they want, and need to get over it. This is in fact not the truth; when environmentalists come across a barricade in their path to success they climb over it and continue to find ways to protect the environment and spread the benefits of green infrastructure all around the world. After viewers are swayed to think negatively of advocates for green infrastructure they are given a spew of biased information such as climate change being a myth, oil companies helping the people, and protesters protecting their right of free speech.

The public fears knowledge of this capacity because the government makes them afraid, but the government is no different- they also fear an educated public that have opinions and to a large extent, free will. Two reoccurring characters

Researchers say that this is due to the fact that people have “feelings of political powerlessness.” They believe that the government is such a powerful force that it would leave the regular people defenseless if they were actually conspiring. Because of this, people tend to blame and create conspiracy theories to make the people who are most powerful seem like they are at fault. When applied to 9/11, we can see use this information to understand how someone would be able to come to wondering if the government were behind the attacks. This falls back under Jan-Willem van Prooijen’s research that was mentioned, who found that people who believe conspiracy theories are those who feel that they lack control in their lives. These two studies tie into each other because feeling powerless is a feeling that usually is a primary reaction to feeling a lack of control over the things happening in your

If this law is used excessively, there is a high chance that the nation will return to its dark period of discrimination and will jeopardize people’s equality. The probable chance of discrimination stems from the American population’s tendency to be judgemental. As President Obama reminded the nation, every person in the nation is protected under a federal hate crime law that would make discrimination under this new law illegal. If the RFRAs become abused, the nation will just be creating more problems for

On a higher level it impacts our criminal justice system. They are continuously trying to keep these massacres from happening and keep guns out of hands of those mentally ill or incapable of handling a firearm. People slowly lose their faith in the system and that’s bad guys take advantage and assume they can get away with the system. Media is somewhat to be blamed for this because we often get a exaggerated take on certain news that makes people feel more vulnerable to these