One individual does not have the power to change their society because there is too much power in numbers, they will be persecuted by the mobs that think differently than the individual, and one individual does not have enough strength to go against larger and more powerful forces. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson contain solid proof that my claim is in fact true. The one huge difference between an individual and a society, is the amount of minds working together. When people work together, they feel as if their ideas are more solid, because more people support them. The society would then try to defend themselves against someone that serves as a threat to their traditions and intelligence. “’Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen,’ she said in a grackle squawk, ‘has just escaped …show more content…
He is a genius, and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous’” (Vonnegut 3). In the society presented in Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, the government tries to manipulate the appearance, physical strength, intelligence, and other talents or personal benefits of the people living there, to insure that everyone is “equal”. Harrison posed a threat to their perfectly equal dystopia by being born with many qualities that made him different from the other members of their society. With only suspicion that Harrison was plotting against their government, they locked him up so he no longer had the freedom to prove their suspicions true. They feared him, because from the moment he was born, everything he had made him the complete opposite of what they