There are five main characters in this short novel. They are Harrison Bergeron, George Bergeron, Hazel Bergeron, Diana Moon Glampers and Ballerina.
These five different person represent four different parts in the article. Harrison Bergeron and Ballerina are brave and abnormal from others, they represent freedom and noncompliance. Diana Moon Glampers is cruel, she represents government. Hazel represent government follower. George follows the government but he still has his own thinking ability, so he represents half-government follower.
The conflict is between government and the mutineers.
All the article is talking around “equal”. Everyone should be equal, not only equal before God and the law, but also equal every which way, such as IQ, appearance, ability, etc. If someone is abnormal like Harrison and Ballerina, the government takes action to stop they develop their talent. For example, George, his intelligence was way above normal, so he was asked to put on a little handicap radio in his ear to send out some sharp noise in order to stop he use the unfair advantage of their brains. This is absurd. This society is pathological and deformed. Equal is that everyone has same rights and ability, not to kill the talent of different people to make people same in all the ways. That is not keep equal, but murder.
Equal is good, but life is not equal, and that is ok, because this is what nature is.
These five different person represent four different parts in the article. Harrison Bergeron and Ballerina are brave and abnormal from others, they represent freedom and noncompliance. Diana Moon Glampers is cruel, she represents government. Hazel represent government follower. George follows the government but he still has his own thinking ability, so he represents half-government follower.
The conflict is between government and the mutineers.
All the article is talking around “equal”. Everyone should be equal, not only equal before God and the law, but also equal every which way, such as IQ, appearance, ability, etc. If someone is abnormal like Harrison and Ballerina, the government takes action to stop they develop their talent. For example, George, his intelligence was way above normal, so he was asked to put on a little handicap radio in his ear to send out some sharp noise in order to stop he use the unfair advantage of their brains. This is absurd. This society is pathological and deformed. Equal is that everyone has same rights and ability, not to kill the talent of different people to make people same in all the ways. That is not keep equal, but murder.
Equal is good, but life is not equal, and that is ok, because this is what nature is.
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