Harrison Bergeron By Kurt Vonnegut "The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal," the story begins. "They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal in every which way." In this haunting story, Vonnegut probably wanted to warn our society of similar kind of equality, equality that can be fatal for human race. In this work the theme is only a minor feature and is not really developed. The idea probably intrigued …showed first 75 words of 735 total…

…showed last 75 words of 735 total…manipulable, which was the goal of the communist party. And this is probably what Kurt Vonnegut tried to warn us in "Harrison Bergeron". Don't let anything or anyone deprive you of your individuality. Otherwise you will lose your humanity as well. If we continue in striving for equality, we could end up like the society in "Harisson Bergeron". If we get as far as eliminating speciesism, we can end up lost and without a cause.