Harrison Bergeron Thesis

In “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, the author shows how everyone acting and looking the same way can affect them physically, mentally, and emotionally therefore Everyone should be able to be themselves and show their own creativity. The author writes about this thesis specifically because he wants to show people that being unique is not a terrible thing because it means you are special in your own way and you might be able to do things others can’t do.
People living in this time had no way of expressing who they really are. If somebody is a doctor and another a garbage man they should be considered the same they must live with and commit to the fact that they will never be better than anyone at anything. The characters in Harrison Bergeron have accepted the fact that they are all the same and they simply have given up on improving themselves. If somebody was too different from the others they would be locked up like Harrison Bergeron he was locked up because he was too different from the others he was too tall and too strong to be held down the government Harrison Bergeron relates to Kurt in real life in a way that he was locked up like Kurt when he was locked up by the European army, they both escaped being imprisoned, they both did what they were intended to do in the end which for Vonnegut’s case was to marry his high school sweet
It represents the mentally part because the purpose of the handicap is to make your thoughts flee your head so you don’t become smarter than the rest of the population. This shows how the handicap can mess with the way you think because it truly doesn’t give you the chance to think another quote to support this is “George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped. But he didn’t get very far with it” (Vonnegut 1). This quote showed how the government made the people it took care of dumber using methods that would never be allowed