The perfect world, everyone will say we need world peace, and end hunger, but sometimes we just have to look at the world we are living in. Realize that we have a roof over our heads a transportation system to get us where we need to be, and friends and family always there. In the short story Harrison Bergeron satire and dystopian literature elements are used to create a tale of society creating an illusion of perfection, when limiting the gifted and ruining the human brain to be less than it can be. In the story Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut creates the ideal dystopian society making everyone equal. Those who are smarter than the average man or women are given a headpiece they must wear at all times that beeps into their brain after …show more content…
“The minute people start cheating on laws, what do you think happens to society?”. Which shows right there that you need competition to have a successful thriving economy. Competition is an essential part of life, and taking that away creates no winner and no loser, which has become a part of everyone's lives. They were watching dancing, but there could not be a winner or loser, so to us why would you watch it if everyone will win the same reward, it is like watching the olympics with everyone having the same level of talent.
People tend to argue that Harrison Bergeron is either a complete dystopian short story, with the individual oppressed eventually being crushed by the collective. Well others believe it is satire story, with ludicrously overpowered hero and equally ludicrous dystopian government. Which makes sense why most of the satire in this book is directed toward the government. With the politicians forcing “equality” on everyone through simply lowering the human standard, dehumanizing people. Harrison Bergeron related a lot to the Holocaust. very similar to Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General of the United States, Hitler wanted a perfect community so did this government, just instead of getting rid of people they go rid of their abilities that made them more equal to the average man, but the story actually is able to throw a mix of both satire and dystopian into the whole short story from beginning to the