They weren’t only equal before God and the law.They were equal every which way.
(Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Lines 30-31 Page 40)
George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped.
If I tried to get away with it,” “then other people’d get away with it and pretty soon we’d be
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right back to the dark ages again,You wouldn’t like that, would you?
“Even as I stand here –” he bellowed, “crippled, hobbled, sickened – I am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived!
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who ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!”
“Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen,” she said in a grackle squawk, “has just escaped from jail, where hewas held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government.
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He is a genius and an athlete, is under–handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous.”
In the story Harrison Bergeron the author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. makes us see that equality is a good ideal we may want to promote; freedom to be who or what someone is can also have a positive effect on society. If not balanced both equality and freedom can bring out people's jealousy and competitiveness which can lead to the downfall of society.
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Created ByAlex Stewart
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