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==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
In 2081, nobody is allowed to be smarter than anybody else, and people who are smarter or more beautiful have to wear handicaps, like face masks or radios that buzz in their ears. These laws are strictly enforced by the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers. Harrison Bergeron has exceptional abilities, so was taken away From his parents George and Hazel when he was only 14 | In 2081, nobody is allowed to be smarter than anybody else, and people who are smarter or more beautiful have to wear handicaps, like face masks or radios that buzz in their ears. These laws are strictly enforced by the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers. Harrison Bergeron has exceptional abilities, so was taken away From his parents George and Hazel when he was only 14. Harrison escapes and invades the television studio in an attempt to overthrow the government. He then takes off his handicaps along with a ballerina's handicap and calls himself the Emperor and her the empress. As they kiss, Diana Moon Glampers kills them both. | ||
==Characters== | ==Characters== | ||
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===Explanation of the Work's Title=== | ===Explanation of the Work's Title=== | ||
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Vonnegut named the story after the protagonist Harrison Bergeron, a all-American boy who tries to stage a revolt and change the society.{{sfn|Votteler|1991|p=427}} | Vonnegut named the story after the protagonist Harrison Bergeron, a all-American boy who tries to stage a revolt and change the society.{{sfn|Votteler|1991|p=427}} Kurt Vonnegut's brief tale "Harrison Bergeron" has expected to be a noticeable situation on numerous English class' conversation practices due to its serious quest for human correspondence at any expense.{{sfn|Stuckey|2006|p=85}} This is a good way to understand' psyches on the wondrous capability of the person than to show them Vonnegut's universe of terrible covers for the wonderful, loads for the solid, and difficult idea disruptors for the clever.{{sfn|Stuckey|2006|p=85}} Few have contended against this translation of the story, which is a little yet significant piece of Vonnegut's philosophical heritage.{{sfn|Stuckey|2006|p=86}} In any case, "Harrison Bergeron" really fits an elective perusing, that it is adequate to seek after populism through implementing a most minimized shared variable mindset.{{sfn|Stuckey|2006|p=86}} | ||
==Literary Significance and Reception== | ==Literary Significance and Reception== | ||
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* {{Cite book | last = Klinkowitz | first = Jerome | year = 1973 | title = The Vonnegut Statement | publisher = Library of Congress | location = | * {{Cite book | last = Klinkowitz | first = Jerome | year = 1973 | title = The Vonnegut Statement | publisher = Library of Congress | location = | ||
| pages = 147-148 }} | | pages = 147-148 }} | ||
* {{cite book |last1=Vonnegut |first1=Kurt |date=2002 |chapter=Harrison Bergeron |title=Reading and Writing about Literature |editor-last=Sipiora |editor-first=Phillip |pages=135–139 }} | * {{cite book |last1=Vonnegut |first1=Kurt |date=2002 |chapter=Harrison Bergeron |title=Reading and Writing about Literature |editor-last=Sipiora |editor-first=Phillip |location=Upper Saddle River, NJ |publisher=Prentice Hall |pages=135–139 }} | ||
* {{cite journal | |||
| last1 = Stuckey | |||
| first1 = Lexi | |||
| date =2006 | |||
| title = Teaching Conformity in Kurt Vonnegut's 'Harrison Bergeron' | |||
| journal = Eureka Printing. | |||
| volume = 7 | |||
| issue = 1 | |||
| page = 85-90 | |||
}} | |||
* {{Cite book | last =Votteler| first =Thomas | date ={{date|1991}} | chapter = Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | title = Short Story Criticism | editor-last =Votteler | editor-first = Thomas | publisher = Gale Research Inc. | pages = 423-438 }} | * {{Cite book | last =Votteler| first =Thomas | date ={{date|1991}} | chapter = Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | title = Short Story Criticism | editor-last =Votteler | editor-first = Thomas | publisher = Gale Research Inc. | pages = 423-438 }} | ||
* {{cite web |url=https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/vonnegut-wins-prometheus-award-for-harrison-bergeron/ |title=Vonnegut wins Prometheus Award for ‘Harrison Bergeron’ |author=<!--staff--> |date=August 19, 2019 |website=Kurt Vonnegut Museum Library|access-date=2021-10-13 |ref={{SfnRef|Library|2019}}}} | * {{cite web |url=https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/vonnegut-wins-prometheus-award-for-harrison-bergeron/ |title=Vonnegut wins Prometheus Award for ‘Harrison Bergeron’ |author=<!--staff--> |date=August 19, 2019 |website=Kurt Vonnegut Museum Library|access-date=2021-10-13 |ref={{SfnRef|Library|2019}}}} | ||