Harrison Bergeron: Heroic or Dangerous? “‘I am the Emperor!’ cried Harrison ‘Do you hear me? I am the Emperor! Everyone must do as I say!’” This is what the main character of the short story “Harrison Bergeron” yelled in a studio after escaping prison. Harrison is a boy who is a rebel to the government after escaping prison after removing his restraints known as “handicaps.” He then broke into a studio and announced on live television that he was now Emperor, and that everyone must bow down to him. Harrison then wants a single lady from the audience to join him to become his Empress. After that vent, and some dancing, the Handicap general puts a stop to it and shoots Harrison and the Empress down. At the end of the day, what exactly is …show more content…
Besides the fact of him breaking out of prison, Harrison is practically an insane person who wants to be “Emperor.” Harrison also states that he is in fact a “... greater ruler than any man who ever lived!” According to actual research, psychopaths do believe they are smarter than what the are, as well as other people. Another factor to Harrison being a danger was how he begun to act like he was going to harm someone within the building after removing his handicaps. He began to bark orders, and makes promises to the musicians that he’d make them royalty. While he did make these offers, he was quite harsh to those men, such as “... Harrison snatched two musicians from their chairs, waved them like batons…” Thus showing that Harrison would hurt people , unless they did as he told. Finally, Harrison is going against the people themselves,. What that means is that, in the beginning of the story, it states that “,,. due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments of the Constitution.” This would usually mean that a democracy was in place in order to make these laws. Also meaning, that people represented themselves to make their one wish become truly, a reality,