Kurt expresses that “In the year of 2081, everybody was finally equal. They weren’t on equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else.
Within the first paragraph the author sets the dreary mood by saying that “nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody
Nobody is better than anybody else in anything, nobody is better looking, or more talented than anybody else. And if anyone was born with a a special gift or developed a skill, it had to be forgotten and prohibited. Supposably, this is the actual meaning of equality. However, are the poeple in Harrison Burgeron's world really equal? Yes they are, but they are equal to an extent, where they begin to lose their freedom.
He wears a mental handicap radio and she does not. One can reason that the ballerina who reads the news bulletin is beautiful.. The more handicaps a person must bare. In attempting the make everyone equal, they have merely established a new way of saying what is superiority. Harrison stands out from everyone
The term “woofer” is often used with an implied attitude of superficiality on the speaker’s part. This plays an impact on a woman’s self-esteem as she is bound by society to believe her self-worth lies in her appearance only. But Barry’s diction is not laced only with informality. In a sophisticated manner with precise and descriptive diction, he exemplifies his friend, Janice, as a perfect example of his point. Though her appearance is well to others and “is a highly competent professional with a good job and a fine family,” she is “always seeing horrific
“Popular culture can sometimes quicken this silent transformation, because the atmosphere it creates and racist messages are so prevalent that they are difficult to ignore. Therefore, African- Americans are especially vulnerable to the messages conveyed by popular culture that white beauty will inevitably dominate people’s life.” She idolizes Shirley Temple unlike Claudia who despises Shirley. “Younger than both Frieda and Pecola, I had not yet arrived at the turning point in the development of my psyche which allowed me to love her. What I felt at the time was unsullied hatred” (Morrison pg.19). Claudia is too young to understand what is about Shirley that makes her beautiful and Claudia not.
Clytaemnestra displays more intelligence than any other character in The Oresteia in the way she manipulates the events leading up to Agamemnon's death in the play "Agamemnon." Her scheming ways and clever word play make her intimidating in the eyes of the people of Argos. She is looked upon with repulsion because of the manly way she acts. The chorus leader states in line 35 "spoken like a man, my lady, loyal, full of self-command." (Aeschylus 116).
The Declaration of Independence has many ideals stated in it. The United States is a democratic republic and a model for many countries but the United States has not lived up to its ideals in the Declaration of Independence. In the Declaration of Independence it states that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness,” meaning that it doesn’t matter what your race is or what you look like, your rights can’t be taken away. “The rich and the poor are not so far removed from each other,” meaning that either if you are rich or poor, you aren’t going to be treated any different just because of how much money you have or don’t have. In the Declaration of Independence, it states that, “all men are created equal,” which means that it doesn’t matter what race you are, you are not to be treated any different than anyone else.
She reflects Eve in the part where she is trying to convince George to remove his handicap weights. George Bergeron is Harrison’s father and Hazel’s husband. A very smart and sensitive character, he is handicapped artificially by the government. Like his son, he has to wear mental handicap radios in his ears to keep him from thinking intensely and analytically. Because he is stronger than average, he has to wear weights around his neck.
Both the film and article shows that there is so much beauty in this world, but people sometimes fail to look beyond appearances and see what really matters. Angela Hayes the perfect American girl has an intense fear of being ordinary both physically and mentally. In the film Angela says “I don’t think that there’s anything worse than being ordinary” (Ball). Angela hides this fear by inventing numerous sexual encounters to prove both to herself and to others that she is incredibly attractive to men. “I’m serious.