Harrison Bergeron Satire

"Harrison Bergeron" is open for ironic purposes. Some people think this is a simple anti-utopian story, individuals are squeezed, eventually they are crushed by groups. Other people think that this is the satire of this story with the ridiculous Destopia government equally as ridiculous unified heroes. In both cases, the majority of irony is directed to the government, politicians are forcing all to "equality" by putting the principle of equality in the limit and lowering the standard.

"If I try to escape it, it will be lucky for everyone else to escape - soon we will return to the dark era, everyone competes with others, Do not hate it?

"You are," George said. A few people began to cheat the law, what do you think would happen in society? "

Of course, "spoofing a law" is usually to trickle or destroy a reasonable law, not a strange rule of the story. The government believes here that eliminating embarrassment, embarrassment, embarrassment and resentment by eliminating the exception theory - a similar theme can be found in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. But in reality culture and society are stagnating. It is because we can not have new ideas. Essentially, this story is satire against freedom (individualism) and slavery (collectivism), but the real irony is to compete

It is easy to see that Harrison Bergeron has done powerful political and social criticism. But what exactly does Vonnegut criticize? The general view of Vonnegut in the irony of Harrison Bergeron shows that this irony is for the Soviet Union. This view comes from historical background (Harrison Bergeron was published during the Cold War era, when anti-communist propaganda was in America). In the 1960s, the United States came into contact with Russia during the Cold War and recently struggled in the McCarthy era when Communists were accused by art, literature, and political community and on the black list. The future American Harrison Belerger society supports the idea that wealth and power should be distributed equally and class hierarchy should not exist, according to the principle of communism.

Harrison Bergeron of Kurt Vonnegut says "This story is a satire, it is an imitation of an ideological society unrelated to the reality of common sense" (Townsend). As Townsend said, Kurt Vonnegut accused society at his imaginary short story "Harrison Bergeron" who was trying to adopt social barriers and similarities and techniques and social authoritarian governments To do. Proportional, and people will eventually win. - In the dark side of Harrison Bergeron of Kurt Vonnegut, the goal of countless societies is to establish full freedom and absolute equality. However, due to its nature, this goal can not be achieved. These two ideal states can not coexist in the most perfect form. In addition, the full form of freedom or equality represents complete disruption or complete suppression.

"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a satirical short story. It was the American utopia in 2081, and "everyone finally equals, (Vonnegut 1)." The hero is Harrison Bergeron, and because of this equality he is a sort of human being and society We face external confrontation. There are ordinary people with disabilities who assign obstacles to those who think they are too strong to keep them all equal. Obstacles are, for example, weights or devices that transmit bullets through the transmitter to divert the attention of the wearer. Harrison is smart, handsome and strong. As a result, his obstacles are widespread and marginal.