Too Much Equality In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron

To Much Equality How could there ever be too much equality? In the story “ Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut was taken place in 2018, where it was a complete collective society. The government installed mental handicaps and physical handicaps to try to make everyone equal to have the same, average intelligence level. George who has the mental handicap in he’s right he doesn’t have any handicap are the parents of Harrison Bergeron who was taken to jail over the accusation of plotting to overthrow the government. Harrison also has many mental and physical handicaps. Equality should mean equal by allowing every person a chance to be their best in anything we do which is the user their intelligence. As for others mental handicaps trying to prevent the thought of overthinking by playing and sound. George has a mental handicap radio controlled by the government to lower his intelligence. “ Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noises to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains”(Vonnegut 1). Whenever someone things over the average intelligence level the sun will go off making them stop thinking. George does

For the people with mental handicaps that even try to think over the average intelligence the government will put a stop to it. “ George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancer should be handicapped but he didn’t get very far before another noise in his area do you scattered his thoughts”(Vonnegut 1). Since George was thinking about how people shouldn’t have handicaps the government immediately took his mind off of it. If anyone goes over the average intelligence the government will try to prevent it trying to make everyone equal. As for Harrison Bergeron’s over average intelligence the government had to put a stop to it by throwing him in