Jealousy In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron

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Although many people believe that the America that Kurt Vonnegut made was equal, I disagree. This is because in the story “Harrison Bergeron,” all the citizens were forced to wear handicaps. These handicaps were supposed to make everyone equal by covering up beauty, brain, and brawn. Adding on to all this, they were treated poorly. The first topic to discuss is the ‘beauty’ handicap. The text says, “... flung away his rubber ball nose, revealed a man that would have awed Thor,...” This is about Harrison taking off his handicaps, and revealing a handsome face. The government made him hide his looks, for fear of jealousy. Another example of this inequality is “...he removed her mask”. She was blindingly beautiful.” Once more, this shows the government covering up another beautiful person’s looks, to not inspire jealousy. …show more content…
Another example of this practice is when George was thinking about Harrison. “He began to glimmeringly think about his son who was now in jail,..., but a twenty-one-gun salute in his head stopped that.” When he thought about his son, the government made all his thoughts vanish due to a loud noise. The last topic I’m going to discuss is the physical handicaps the government uses. These handicaps are used to weigh down the strong
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