Uniforms In The Short Story Of Harrison Bergeron

In the short story, Harrison Bergeron everyone was not uniform, which they were intended to be, as ordered by the government in 2081. Everyone was intended to be equal, but the government has made it impossible for this to occur. Three new amendments were added to The Constitution were made to ensure everyone was coequal. The administration took jurisdiction of the country and worked in sync to pass these new laws, which were completely absurd, and make them a reality. The government had to put much time and effort into this operation, which seems like a total waste of valuable time. As stated on page 1, handicaps have been made to take away so call advantages that some people have. As stated by the author, a Handicapper General was
appointed to come up with new innovative ways to handicap people. As stated on page 7, “Harrison plucked the metal impediment from her ear, snapped off her physical encumbrances with marvelous delicacy. Last, of all he removed her mask.” The mission of the government was to force an eerie type of equality among its citizens. In the process of doing this, they were making all of its citizens asymmetrical. Giving people so any hindrances can make the next person better than them. In the story, everyone is anything but equal. While going to extremes trying to make everyone equal the government did the opposite. At any cost, this government would do anything to make everyone the same. After reading this story I realized that no matter what you do everyone is never going to be the same. Everyone will always be different than the next person everyone in the entire world is different.