Similarities Between Harrison Bergeron And Today's Society

Although the comparisons are well hidden both today’s society and the story ‘Harrison Bergeron’ share a good amount of similarities. They both have to deal with equality, which leads to problems and consequences. Secondly having to deal with competition and trying to prevent it from occurring, which also leads to problems. Lastly both struggle with normality, and it’s hard to accept that different is okay now.

In both Harrison Bergeron and today’s society, people struggle due to equality. As shown in Harrison Bergeron the pushing of equality is causing consequences. Equality is being pushed onto everyone by having handicaps to make them all the same. Equality can also cause any type of hurt. Physical damage is being applied to George, and it wears people out. George is hurting and tired with all of the handicaps of him. Due to different opinions and some not liking equality, the rebellion was a result, and the ballerina rebels to join. In today’s society, the pushing of equality is also causing consequences. By passing laws such as same-sex marriage is a sign of
In Harrison Bergeron, normality is what everyone strives/pushes others to be. The government took away what made a person special from them because everyone believing that everybody should act normal. Also, the handicaps and the sense of always being watched makes it hard to act as is everything’s normal, and live a normal life. Lastly, the future and their ways/actions have evolved. The standard for normal is different now. In today’s society, with everyone thinking that everyone should be normal, people tend to push their criticism and bashing on others in some ways. In today’s world, people will look at you like your crazy, or talk about you if you act different making it difficult to live a normal life. Although they want it to be normal, normal is different these days, everyone is special in their own