2081 Essay, Research Paper

In the year 2081, America is a completely different place. Amendments were made to the Constitution of the United States that made it illegal to be different. Because of this Constitutional change, the idea that no one would have an advantage over someone else because of beauty, strength, intelligence, grace or anything else had become a reality. 1 ? Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.?

Making outstanding people average would be a problem today. In the future, the government has ordered overachieving individuals to wear handicaps to make them average. 1 ? And to offset his good looks, the H-G men required that he wear at all times a rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snaggle-tooth random.?

I can believe that some people in their society embraced the Constitutional changes that made this handicapping possible. Just imagine how perfect our country would be if everyone was equal and competition was erased. No worries about poor grades, promotions, pay raises, looking good in the morning, how you speak, drive, write, or read because the government has made it illegal to excel. Being normal is now mandatory.

Harrison Bergeron was an extreme danger to this society. His views were exactly the opposite of amendment 211, 212, and 213 of the Constitution. By escaping from prison, he was in the position of assembling others that had his beliefs. Once assembled, his followers could storm the capitol and overthrow the government, which is exactly what Harrison wants. 1 ? I am the Emperor! cried Harrison. Do you hear what I say?.

Harrison was a strong, intelligent, and handsome young man who was regarded as a danger to society. 2 ? Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen, she said in a grackle squawk, has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. He is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous.?