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In Harrison Bergeron Vonnegut explores the theme of forced equality in Yankee thusciety within the not so distant future the writer creates a world within which all living individuals square measure equal altogether ways in which He focuses on making equality of neutering beauty strength and intelligence as critical addressing race religion and sex truth problems with equality in society He writes this story to show the lesson that every one individual isn t equal but rather all of them have strengths and weaknesses creating every unambiguously individual Vonnegut forces equality in America within the areas of beauty strength and intelligence He creates a world within which stunning individuals wear masks to hide their faces and robust people carry weights to form them adequate to the weaker population For the intelligent men and ladies headsets that blast random noises square measure worn to interfere with intellectual thoughts These handicaps square measure to be worn the least bit times and square measure enforced by law to equalize all citizenry the writer makes Harrison terribly handsome strong and intelligent He must wear associate degree abnormally giant receiver large weights giant glasses and a red rubber nose simply to offset his options the writer writes The remainder of Harrison s look was Allhallows Eve and hardware no one had ever borne heavier handicaps 128 If ever a handicap law is broken the gamblerGeneral WHO wears no handicaps and carries a small arm hunts down the culprit and kills him
