Satire In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron

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Kurt Vonnegut's satire, “Harrison Bergeron,” shows that nobody can be the same in every way because society will malfunction, and it isn’t worth it to live in such a plain world. People in the dystopian society are handicapped, not borned, achieving equality in every way. In the exposition of the story, the text states that George’s intelligence is way beyond mediocre, but “[he] is required by law to wear [a mental handicap]” (134). As a result of wearing this handicap, people with a higher level of intelligence are prevented from taking advantage of their superior intelligence. This society they live in supposed to have people being equal on every level; however, people’s ways of thinking aren’t the same as each other. For instance, George
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