Harrison Bergeron Equality

What kind of life would it be if we were all the same? The short story, “Harrison Bergeron”, written in 1961 by the author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is a declaration for everyone to be equal. In the year 2081 Constitutional Amendments were made to have everyone equal. People are made equal by devices which bring them down to normality in the short story, it is to enforce the equality laws and to bring everyone down to below-average in strength, intelligence, and ability. Harrison who broke his handicaps on television and for a brief time shows the world the beauty of human beings, he then rebels against the dystopian world and is killed before he has finished his dance. The basic idea of “Harrison Bergeron” is that people are declared to be equal.

There is so much trouble and conflict in the world from others that do not believe in quality. Even though pure equality sounds like a good idea it could lead with a lot of troubles. In the future of 2081 pure equality is all they had. Hazel, Harrisons mother is described as having "perfectly average intelligence,…And [while] George[ 's]…intelligence was way above normal". In this time to get the pure equality they wanted the intelligent ones would have to wear earphones that would mess up their train of thought. In order to keep their intelligence to the same level as others, Harrison 's father has to wear "a little mental handicap radio in his ear”. Diana Moon Glampers was not only the one who supported the equality she shot down and killed Harrison Bergeron the one who was the symbol of freedom and being oneself. Diana was also the HG, Handicap General, she was the one who got rid of equality and freedom the best way she could. Vonnegut then tells us not to go all the way towards pure equality or everyone will lose their individuality. He then talks about for everyone to be equal the people who exceed at other things they have to be brought down to ‘standard’. Diana Moon Glampers represents the fairness and Harrison represents the individuality everyone has.
Diana Moon Glampers symbolizes the fairness in this society. She manages the checks and balances in the society of 2081. Diana is the one who is in charge of

Harrison bergeron represents the uniqueness and freedom through all of his characteristic. In a society with excessive equality Harrison was not something you called normal, he was described as: a genius, an athlete,…and should be regarded as dangerous….Instead of a little ear radio for a mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and spectacles with thick wavy lenses….Scrap metal [is] hung all over him….he wear[s] at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep[s] his eyebrows shaved off, and cover[s] his even white teeth with black caps at snaggletooth random.
Harrison was someone who stuck out, just by the way he walked and talked the reader could tell his differentness by all of his handicaps. The reader can tell Harrison is something different but society is blinding him and taking away his individualism. Also his brain is great enough to override the sounds the HG men create for him. He is the one willing enough to celebrate oneself and he represents the uniqueness of an