A dystopian society is an imaginative society in which the citizens live a dehumanized, fearful life. A similar conflict is found in the stories of Harrison Bergeron, Examination day, and Shades. Dystopian stories relate to each other by having the protagonist's rights taken because something is forbidden. Harrison from the story “Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is denied his freedom, and individuality. He is being kept in prison for being a genius, strong, under-handicapped, and being regarded as extremely dangerous. He’s so frightening to the government that he gets put in prison on suspicion of plotting to overthrow them. He escapes, even though he has heavier handicaps than anyone else. Those handicapped are in prison. They show it on the newscast. It shows that “Instead of a little …show more content…
The spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches. In the race of life, Harrison carried three hundred pounds. Required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at random.”(4). Harrison is being forced to feel ostracized. He doesn't have freedom at all. He can't be himself because he has more abilities than others. In the same way, there is something similar. Freedom of potential being denied. Dickie from the story “Examination Day” by Henry Slesar has to do a test that will determine his future. If a person exceeds the score on the test, meaning they go over the potential the government thinks they should have, then they will get eliminated.