The Handicapped World
The law shouldn’t take equality to the extreme. In the short story “Harrison Bergeron,” the author, Kurt Vonnegut, is talking about equality and its consequences. In other words the author is saying the extreme of this story is ugly ballerinas should wear masks and all the smart people should dumb themselves down and wear handicaps to be equal to everyone! The handicaps in this story are little electronic devises that you put in your ear and the government insists that you wear them all the time! People who had more intelligence would receive a sharp, but loud noise every twenty seconds to make people like George and Hazel with more intelligence to not think about things and take unfair advantage with their brains. So no one can be more beautiful, smarter, or more normal.
The ballerinas in this story strongly disagree with what this story is about. It makes no sense in making perfectly intelligence people dumb, or
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