Saturday, 19 May 2018

What traits does Harrison Bergeron have?

For every
quality of physical or mental excellencepossesses, there is a corresponding handicap that he
must wear to bring his abilities down to the level of the "average" person so that all
members of the society can be equal. Thus, because he is wonderfully
handsome, he has to wear a "rubber-ball nose" to make him
look like a clown and black caps on his teeth. Because he is highly
intelligent
, he must wear not just a "little mental handicap radio in his
ear," but a "tremendous pair of earphones." He also wears eyeglasses that would
cause headaches and interfere with his vision to further hamper his intellect. Instead of a
simple bag of birdshot around his neck like his father wears, he has scrap metal hanging all
over him because he is so strong and powerful. He is
seven feet tall, and there is nothing the handicappers can do to
hide that. He is also non-compliant, which creates a problem for
his dystopian keepers. He can dance gracefully while hovering in
the air. Despite Harrison's god-like attributes, he is not impervious to
bullets
, succumbing easily to Diana Moon Glampers' "double-barreled
ten-gauge shotgun." 

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