Harrison Bergeron and Satire Project
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- That was a real pretty dance, that dance they just did.
- That dance-it was nice.
- ...Huh?
- Boy! That was a doozy, wasn't it? All of a sudden you look so tired.
- Why don't you stretch out on the sofa, so's you can rest your handicap bag on the pillows, honey bunch. Go on and rest the bag for a little while. I don't care if you're not equal to me for a while.
- Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
- L-L-La-La-dees ah GEn-t
- La-La-LA-dies an-an-d Ge-Gent-Gent-lemAAn
- He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren't really very good no better than anybody else would have been, anyway... George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. But he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts.
- Ladies and Gentlemen
- Excuse me-
- In his story "Harrison Bergeron," Kurt Vonnegut illustrates the idea that complete and total equality between all human beings is not something to idolize. He uses satire and irony to create a society that goes to the extreme in trying to make everything equal between its citizens. In this society, equality means making everyone equally stupid, ugly, and mediocre. They want all their citizens equally hindered and thus equally exploitable and easy to control. Using increasingly laughable scenes, Kurt Vonnegut makes the often glorified term "equality" sound absolutely ridiculous and illogical.
- It was such a doozy that George was white and trembling, and tears stood on the rims of his red eyes... She was referring to the forty-seven pounds of birdshot in a canvas bag, which was padlocked around George's neck.
- The television program was suddenly interrupted for a news bulletin. It wasn't clear at first as to what the bulletin was about, since the announcer, like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment. For about half a minute, and in a state of high excitement, the announcer tried to say, "Ladies and Gentlemen."
- She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous. And it was easy to see that she was the strongest and most graceful of all the dancers, for her handicap bags were as big as those worn by two-hundred pound men...And she had to apologize at once for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman to use. Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody.
- My Thoughts
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