Have you ever looked around and realized just how different everyone is, just how beautiful your friend may be or how smart your sister is. This beautiful individuality is not appreciated or even accepted in ¨Harrison Burgeson.¨ Through dystopian elements in the story, Kurt Vonnegut reveals just how dangerous forced equality can be in everyday life. Vonnegut illustrates a world where everyone is seen equal, he does this by masking those who seem to portray beauty, strength, and intelligence; he wrote this story to show just how different we all are yet we all hold something to us that makes us unique and different.
Vonnegut forces equality on people who appear to be prettier, smarter, and stronger than the weakest one. He creates a world where the beautiful wear a mask, the strong people carry weights, and the intelligent were forced to wear a headset which blasted random noises to interfere with their thoughts. They were not given the choice to be in one of these categories as
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In a world of absolute equality, each human being would never be looked upon as anything much more or less than the person next to him or her. Harrison however finally thought he had some power standing there in that television studio when he says, “ I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once! saying this Harrison just completely took equality away. Everyone was on their knees before him just expecting to die and at that moment he held power but it would not last long. Vonnegut writes “Harrison tore the straps off his handicap harness like wet tissue paper, tore straps guaranteed to support five thousand pounds,”. Harrison then selected his empress, the beautiful ballerina and they danced, they danced beautifully. Everything was coming together and equality in the town would be fixed of course if it wasn't for the