Harrison Bergeron: Hero Or Villain

Actions that Harrison Bergeron contributed can be argued if rather he is a hero or a villain. He lives in 2081, where everybody in society is equal physically and mentally. Harrison exposed society laws of being equal to everybody is unrealistic. Everybody is made differently and can never be equal. He also displays a sense of bravery when he knows what kind of consequences for that actions that he performed. It can be portrayed that he was trying to get people in society to open their eyes. However, Harrison also shows villain tendencies by his domainating and aggressive persinatlity. Harrison Bergerion bravery to standing up to the government and challenging the people of society shows his heroism. In a society where everybody is brought down to average with the help of handicaps, Harrison Bergeon, a fourteen year boy, was willing to take great risk to challenge the government laws. He was sent to jail because he was too smart, strong and athletic. The government show that they fear him overthrowing their power so they made sure everybody else feared him. When Harrison busted in the studio ballerinas, musicians and other people was scared of him and expected to died. To come to find out he did nothing to them but told them to performed

This can be represented as a symbol of how Harrison plans to help free people from their handicaps. He’s trying to encourage people to stand up to the government and refuse their laws of being another average person. Many people are sacred to stand up to the government, because of their consequences of showing how they are above average people. Harrison stood up to the government and showed his uniqueness on live telvsions that nobody in that society had guts to do. He made it seemed like people shouldn’t be ashamed of being above average. Being above average should be a gift and not something that should be withhold from