Harrison Bergeron Theme Essay

Have you ever forgot something very important that could’ve changed your life? In Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron, equality is forced upon the citizens by the government. Everyone is forced to wear handicaps that make everyone “equal”. The government, strictly enforces these handicaps. If someone were to take a handicap off, such as a lead ball hanging from their neck, it would be 2 years in prison and a $2,000 fine. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron, he shows the government is so corrupt that they will do anything to keep their power. In Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut uses a motif throughout the story to show how corrupt the government is. “And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it
“Harrison thrust his thumbs under the bar of the padlock that secured his head harness. The bar snapped like celery. Harrison smashed his headphones and spectacles against the wall. He flung away his rubber ball nose, revealing a man that would have awed Thor, the god of thunder.” (Vonnegut ?-?) All of the harnesses Harrison removed were put on him by the government. Kurt Vonnegut does a great job in describing how Harrison is stripping all of the handicaps off, knowing that it is illegal to remove handicaps. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron, the 3rd person limited point of view shows the pain the governments handicaps are bringing George. “George Bergeron correctly identified the earthquake, and well he might have-for many was the time his own home had danced to the same crashing tune. ‘My God-‘ said George, ‘that must be Harrison!’” You know what George is thinking throughout the whole story, but it still refers to him as George. You know when the government is using the handicap radio on him because it tells you in the text when the sounds go through George’s