Harrison Bergeron

Imagine that you are in a world where every single person is exactly the same. If someone is taller, stronger, smarter, or better looking than somebody else, they are forced to by law to wear handicaps that slow them down, or a mask that make them look revolting. Some people are smarter than others. In this world if you are you must wear a buzzer in your ear that make atrocious sound, and you can’t think straight. Say your stronger than someone else, the government makes you wear weights that slow you down and make you equal to other people. Experienced dancers or ballerinas that are better and faster dancers than everyone else have to wear the weights as well on their ankles slowing them down to. Will you rebel against the government or just take the abuse? This is a hard decision to make considering you can get fines, and go to jail, or even a death penalty. In the short story "Harrison Bergeron" there is very important symbolism and the plotline is an Irony.

Inside of this story there is a dance between Harrison and the ballerina. This dance represents Harrison’s want for freedom in this story. Before destroying his, the musicians, and the ballerinas handicaps he yelled “I am the emperor” showing how he wanted to make a better world for people, and trying to make a world without handicaps. A thing about the handicaps is how they were sort of like a jail to the people holding them back and not letting them do things they are capable of doing. Everyone is different and that is what makes the world enjoyable. We in the world our each others audiences we all watch each other weather what were doing is good or bad.

Besides all of the important symbolism the plotline to this story is an Irony. To begin with this story is highly unrealistic. During Harrison’s and the ballerinas dance the story said they jumped up and kissed a ceiling thirty feet high. Another thing is that if it got to the point in this story all the people would probably attack everyone in the white house. People would rebel and wouldn’t wear the handicaps. The main character in this story is not in control because everyone has to wear the handicaps. One of most important things in this story though is that who ever reads it probably thinks (at least my life isn’t that bad). In the end of this story ends in death Harrison and the ballerina are shot to death by the Handicapped General, and Harrison’s parents don’t even remember it. At the end his dad said to his mom “you been crying” then she said “yup” “something real sad on T.V.”.

Now what would you do inside of a world like this?It would be horrible to live here, all of these stupid handicaps and the Handicap General. The world is different and that is the way God made it, the Handicap General is pretty much disrespecting this by what he did. This stories plotline is an Irony and there is very important symbolism in it.