Professor Lew
ENG 111
20 April 2015
The Danger of Total Equality
Would you rather live in a world, where everything is equal? Every American is fully equal, meaning that no one is dimmer, uglier, weaker, and slower that anyone else, sounds good right? Non the less a world where the beauty is cast away by a mask so it won’t be distracting, the strong would be chained up in handicap and the intelligent has to wear huge ear muffs that sends loud signals to interrupt any thoughts of intelligent. In the short story, “Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. that world exists of the year 2081. In that world Kurt Vonnegut, portrays the danger of total equality. One way Kurt Vonnegut exposes the danger of total equality is people