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Compare And Contrast Harrison Bergeron

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Compare and contrast Harrison Bergeron The 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments have been written, and it seems the world has finally become what people call “equal” nowadays in 2081. This isn’t bad for some people but these so-called handicaps to keep people equal aren’t good for everyone. Both the text “Harrison Bergeron”, and the film are similar in events but there are a few differences in the situations, plot, and characters. One main difference that was evident is a character in the text “Harrison Bergeron”, that was represented as blindingly beautiful. The ballerina that had been called up to dance was this character. In the story the more ugly the mask the more pretty the person and the heavier the handicap the better the person is. This is represented in the text by a sentence that stated “She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous. And it was easy to see that she was the strongest and most graceful of all the …show more content…

In the text there is the scene when the character Harrison Bergeron is killed by another character Diana Moon Glampers “It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor. Diana Moon Glampers loaded the gun again. She aimed it at the musicians and told them they had ten seconds to get their handicaps back on. It was then that the Bergerons' television tube burned out”(Vonnegut 78). This is the exact same way that this event occurred in the film as well. In the film, character Harrison Bergeron is killed by Diana Moon Glampers with a ten gauge double barrel shotgun. There are many more situations where they are similar; however this is the main similarity between the

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The narrative "Harrison Bergeron" is a piece of dystopian fiction wherein the government decides to enforce complete equality between its citizens. Although the story is told from a third person limited point of view, the story mainly focuses on Harrison, a fugitive of the law. George and Hazel, the parents of Harrison, are the only characters the author has omniscient insight on. As a result of striving for complete equality the government has complete control over people's actions and thoughts to be certain no one has an "unfair advantage" over others by making them wear handicaps. In Kurt Vonnegut's story, "Harrison Bergeron," symbolism, tone, and irony develop the theme of how complete equality is impossible and undesirable to achieve.

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In the story entitled “Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut, he writes that year of 2081, everyone would be truly equal. I disagree with this vision because handicaps, power, and free will paint an unequal society in “Harrison Bergeron”. Some people have handicaps, which are supposed to “equalize” their abilities to the others in society. However, the idea of handicaps is not actually equalizing because different people with different handicaps and abilities are unable to feel or understand each other’s circumstances, struggles, and experiences.

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Harrison Bergeron was a book written in 1961 that portrayed an abnormal child defying the dystopian government; in 2009 a movie was made, based off of it called 2081 that changed the character both physically and morally. The differences in how Harrison Bergeron, the main character, appears in each story changes how the audience perceives his morality. These changes are easily highlighted in Harrison’s age, dialogue, and appearance. The tone of the story is also changed, resulting in similar changes to what the audience interprets. As both stories continue these differences become more and more apparent and by the end, there is a clear split in what the audience ‘takes away’.

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Books and movies have been around for many years and lately movie directors have been making more and more movies based off of books. Most people do not know that around 50% of movies are based off of books. Although, it really depends on what people mean when a movie is “based” off a book. Some directors say a movie is based off a book, but has a different plot and seems totally different. So, in order to keep true to the book, directors keep the plot relatively the same, but there are a few times they decide to change the message entirely by changing just a few key events.

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“Repent Harlequin Said the Tictockman” by Harlan Ellison wrote in 1965 is about a time keeping government trying to achieve complete efficiency. The 1961 science fiction short story “Harrison Bergeron,” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., is about complete equality, disabling humanity from success. By examining elements of character analysis, tone, plot, setting, and diction, readers can see that these two dystopian stories can be compared and contrasted. “Repent Harlequin…” and “Harrison Bergeron” take place in alternate futures where the government has either taken control of everyone’s schedules or removed things that would make them unequal. Both stories are led by an antagonist and by someone who rebelled against them, but eventually, the rebellion fails and as far as we know the oppression goes on.

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Character development plays a huge role in both stories. In Harrison Bergeron, people are not truly themselves. With handicaps and other restrictions the citizens

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This truly “equal” world that the future has to offer in 2081 is very bizarre and in a way unfair. But there are two versions of this story that portray this story in different styles but both aren’t exactly alike. They are alike in ways such as their theme which is that although people might want equality where no one is better than another, our ability to do something that another cannot or to do something better than another is what separates every human as an individual and what makes humans what they are. While reviewing both the story and the live action oh “Harrison Bergeron” there was similarities and differences such as both the themes they surrounded were similar but more physical characteristics such as the setting,conflict,some

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Harrison Bergeron In Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s story, “Harrison Bergeron,” literary elements symbolism, imagery, and tragedy reveal the author’s perspective on what society would be like if everyone was equal. Handicaps were a major part of the story “Harrison Bergeron.” The Handicaps symbolized how society is attempting to limit everyone to mediocrity. Of all of the handicaps, the body weight seemed to be the harshest.

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“Harrison Bergeron” is a short fiction written by Kurt Vonnegut, the story is set in the year 2081, and it talks about a futuristic society where all people are equal. No one is smarter, beautiful or stronger than the other, and if someone happens to be better than the others they find themselves compelled by The United States Handicapper General to wear what they call “handicaps” in order to bring down their abilities to the most basic levels as the others. Throughout the story, Vonnegut expresses a strong and vigorous political and social criticism of some historical events in the US during 1960s such as the Cold War and Communism, television and American Culture and Civil Rights Movement. “Harrison Bergeron” was published in 1961 during that time several events were happening around the world in general and in the US in specific which was engaged in a series of political and economic crisis with the communist Soviet Union know as The

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The character Harrison, in the story “Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, has many traits that help aide the theme of the story. Harrison was a strong, good looking, determined young individual with a goal to be different than everyone else. To begin with, Harrison is a good looking 14 year old that is 7ft tall with big goals in life. Harrison is one that was made handicapped by the Handicapper General because he is better than the others.

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A “Perfect” Government for a “Perfect” Society In Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison Bergeron”, framing, beginning and ending a story in a similar way, is used to present the unwavering, tyrannous control the government has on the futuristic society in which the story takes place. One way in which Vonnegut uses framing to present the tight, unyielding hold the government has on the people living in the year 2081, is with the detail of Hazel crying. In the beginning and end of the story, tears are streaming down Hazel’s face, but when George questions as to why she is upset, she cannot recall what prompted her tears. When George tells her that it is best to forget sad things she replies with, “‘I always do’”

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Kurt Vonnegut uses characterization to describe how the characters act in this society. Vonnegut also uses style to show how he uses science fiction and dystopia in “Harrison Bergeron”. The theme demonstrated in “Harrison Bergeron” is equality is not meant to make one person better than another. Kurt Vonnegut in “Harrison Bergeron”, demonstrates that equality based on characteristics is not a good thing for society. Harrison Bergeron is a short story based on the year 2081, where everybody is equal.

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