Julie Hagerty

In the stories, “The Most Dangerous Game”, “Liberty”, and “Harrison Bergeron” all compare among their similarities. Each story uses the setting and their conflicts to show the theme and the characteristics of each character. In these stories, they all have different conflicts and settings, but they use the conflicts and settings to relate to each other in their characters and the themes. There are similarities among the stories “The Most Dangerous Game”, “Liberty”, and “Harrison Bergeron” in the

Harrison Bergeron is about the future and how equality takes a role today and how it might affect the future. The story was written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The story starts of where everyone is equal in the year 2081. The story is about the Bergeron family who live in the 21st century but it is in the year 2081. This is a story about the differences vs. equality and how it plays a role in the world today. It contrasts how equality plays a role today. In the story there is the Bergeron family

Kurt Vonnegut crafts the dystopian message of equality within Harrison Bergeron through the use of ironic and absurd language. Beginning in the first lines of the story, it jumps right in with, “The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal,” (Vonnegut,34). He seems to emphasize on the irony of equality by drawing attention to the word “finally”. It’s quite peculiar or absurd how things would be if everyone was equal and that’s what Vonnegut proves in multiple points in the story such as, “Every

The Political Messages Behind “Harrison Bergeron” Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison Bergeron” gives the account of a married couple living in the year 2081. At that time, government had implemented a long list of policies that effectively made everyone equal in every possible way. Vonnegut’s story can be translated to reflect that too much government, or a single powerful ruler, can be devastating to a population that strives for freedom. In 2081, the government has created the position of

2081 PROJECT How can we tell if a character in a book is a Christ figure? Harrison Bergeron is an appropriate example. He went through and done things that Christ had done such as being persecuted for his faith, carried a beam of wood on his shoulders, and came to rescue the unqualified world. Harrison was taken away from home and went through series of rough treatment. He was terrorized for his beliefs, as with Jesus when He suffered the same way. In addition, the story reads, he wore earphones

The story "Harrison Bergeron" is about George and Hazel Bergeron in future america. It was the year 2081, and everyone the the Bergeron's world are equal. The government uses "handicaps" in order to make everyone "equal", which consist of masks, clown noses, sound transmitters in the ears of citizens, and bags of birdshot tied around the necks, arms, legs, or wherever, depending on how strong or intelligent the person is. Obviously this society of total equality is wrong and taken way too far

The story “Harrison Bergeron” is about individualism and government power. It takes place in 2081 where the government has supreme control over every person in the nation. People are given “handicaps” and downgraded to be equal to one another. Harrison decides to take action and tries to change things for the better. Unfortunately, this is not what happened. There ended up being a terrible consequence that no one would ever wish upon a 14 year old boy. The short story “Harrison Bergeron,” written

The story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. explains that people are being forced to wear handicaps to make everyone equal in every aspect. Also, a man called Harrison Bergeron was sent to prison without a trial because the government believed that he was planning to overthrow the government but later on he escapes. It also explains that Harrison goes to the TV studio where a ballerina had given the news to the public and claims that he is the Emperor of everyone. He soon told everyone that

“Harrison Bergeron” and “Old Glory” are both in the science fiction genre and take place in a future where the government is in full control of everything and everyone. In “Harrison Bergeron”, everyone is equal and the Handicap General is the person that makes that happen, weather by means of handicaps or being forcing people to wear masks. Harrison Bergeron doesn’t like this and tries to put a stop to this but ends up being killed by the Handicap General. “Old Glory” is about a young boy’s grandfather

When Equality is No Longer Equal “The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren 't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.” Equality. One word with one million different definitions. When you hear the word equality, what thoughts come to mind? Do you think of the Civil Rights Movement and Women’s Suffrage, or do you think