Harrison Bergeron

Billy Essick
Mr. Neuburger
Eng. Comp 102
31 August 2011
Single Paragraph Essay
A Boring and Strict World
I wonder what the world would be like if everything it contained was equal. The world just wouldn’t be able to carry on due to how it is always competing, and making everyday a challenge. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in his short piece “Harrison Bergeron” projects how the future may be in 2081, everyone being created equal the ideal perfect world. Although equality is a major priority by many, being equal will cause questions, leading to outbreaks, furthermore leading to corruptions in society. Unfortunately, the idea of everyone created equal will not work. Vonnegut Jr. states, “If I tried to get away with it,” “…then other people’d get away with it-and pretty soon we’d be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else…” (Vonnegut 295) Dark ages as he refers to in his story, insinuating that our society we live in today in other words compared to a depression. With everybody equal in brain power, muscle, etc, the world wouldn’t be able to keep on moving forward, things staying the same, and that can not happen. 215

Works Cited
Jr. Vonnegut, Kurt. Power of Language: Language of Power. “ Harrison Bergeron”.:Pearson Learning Solutions, 2009.293-99.Print.