Harrison Bergeron Essay

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All people have different ideas on what they like. If one person chose what utopia they want, not everyone will be happy. Utopia is one way a person sees as perfect, so one person’s utopia could be another person’s dystopia. A lot of stories have attempted utopias, for example Harrison Bergeron, Animal Farm, and even House of the Scorpion. Utopias lose freedom, there is no way it can exist in a utopia. Freedom is freedom from things you don’t like. It takes away free speech, free religion, everything that you call yours is taken away because you need to share it. You can’t make your own decisions when utopias form, it’s all laid out for you. For example if you wanted to have a little get together with your closest friends you couldn’t, because everyone has to be an …show more content…

In the story “Harrison Bergeron” they try to attempt to make a utopia by making each other look equal. Have you ever cut someone off in traffic, or didn’t call somebody back because you don’t like them? That’s just how our bodies and mind are, it would be impossible to make everybody in your utopia to not do bad things. The golden rule means to treat others the way you want to be treated, but there are some jerks in the world and selfish people. There is nothing we can do about it and it just teaches us how to be human beings. Heaven, the place where god lives, is supposed to be a utopia, it is when our time is up and we get to live up there. If we make a utopia now when everybody has different opinions and ideas our reward won’t seem as big. “In House of the Scorpion”, El Patron makes a utopia by keeping everything he owns and then kills them with him when he dies because he still wants all the power even in heaven or hell. Hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, and floods are all natural disasters that we cannot control. All of these things cause death, grief, depression which is not part of utopia. A