Instead of understanding equality as everybody having equal status, rights, and opportunities under the law, the society in "Harrison Bergeron" interprets it as something that should exist among people of different capacities.
Natural geniuses, elite athletes, and people with more average skills can all be found. In order to make people who possess exceptional powers "equal" to more common people, this civilization has outlawed such abilities and "handicaps" anyone who do.
What is the significance of equality?
Ensuring that each person has an equal chance to maximize their potential is what equality is all about.
It is also the idea that no one should have worse life opportunities due to their birth circumstances, place of origin, religious beliefs, or physical or mental limitations.
What was Harrison Bergeron?
Dystopian fiction by Harrison Bergeron centers on a civilization whose quest for perfection goes disastrously wrong.
The civilization in the novel is based on the ideal of equality, but in the process, strength and wisdom have been lost.
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