Harrison Bergeron And Anthem Comparison Essay

In a World so Different A utopia is a perfect world with no downsides and no problems. Harrison Bergeron lives in a world where everyone is made equal with physical and mental handicaps such as weights, masks, and brain buzzers. The book Anthem is based in a place where everyone in the society is brainwashed to think they only live as part of a unit. In Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” and Rand’s Anthem, equality and the main characters are both very similar in many ways. The Main characters from both pieces of writing are very similar in a few ways. In “Harrison Bergeron”, Harrison and this Ballerina really hit it off at the final dance. “…they remained suspended inches below the ceiling, and they kissed for a really long time.” (Rand 4). This shows how he clearly thinks she is better than all the other ballerinas that were there and he thinks she’s beautiful. Equality also has a girl; the golden one. She asked him “If you see us among scores of women will you look at us?” he answered, “I will look at you.” (Vonnegut 54). This clearly states that he prefers her over all other women and he calls her “The Golden One” so that says something too. Now, these are
In “Harrison Bergeron” physical and mental handicaps such as masks, body weights, and brain buzzers keep everyone equal. “They weren’t just equal, they were equal in every which way” (Rand 1). This shows that equality was very important to them and was tried to be kept that way. In Anthem everyone in the community had been brainwashed since birth to believe that there was no single unit of a person in society only the society itself. “All men are good and wise and it is only we” (Vonnegut 4). This shows that even Equality believes that there is no individuality in society. In both of these societies, everyone is equal in one way or another. Now these two pieces of writing might have more in common than was