Thursday 12 January 2017

In Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron," what are some of Harrison's thoughts about being imprisoned?

A society
that values mediocrity to the point of asserting oppressive measures in the name of equality is
certainly the enemy of one so intelligent and talented as , who is held on suspicion of plotting
to overthrow the government. Despite the three hundred pounds he wears and the disguising
masks placed upon him, Harrison is listed as "underhandicapped" and "extremely
dangerous."

When Harrison breaks out of prison and enters the television
station where everything is desensitized and reinterpreted in order to shift ideas that might be
counter-culture, he declares,

"I am the
Emperor!" Everybody must do what I say at once!" 


Thus, his is complete revolution against the...

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