Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. creates an environment in which everyone is completely equal in the story of Harrison Bergeron. Being equal by physical qualities is a matter of opinion unless everyone looks exactly alike, but they do not. And how could one test another's full capacity of intelligence? Because all people are different by matters of physical and mental strengths there is no way for everyone to be completely equal even by adding handicaps as well as masks.
             Although many people may have the same thought about one particular thing, physical beauty is a personal opinion. In the story, the characters, George and Hazel talk about ballerinas they see on the television and express the fact that the ballerinas are wearing masks in order to hide their beauty. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. illustrates this when written, "She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous" (142). One may think a person is beautiful when another may not; therefore, one person is not capable of deciding who is beautiful or not precisely. The equality of humans does not stop at their physical features but also include mental capacity.
             The story of Harrison Bergeron explains everyone is equal in intelligence due to the constitution and agents of the United States Handicapper General. The United States Handicapper General puts handicaps on people who have intelligence that is above average. It is shown that humans only use approximately ten percent of their brain. On a website of The AFU and Urban Legend Archive Science it is said "Citing both evolutionary theory and clinical evidence, Beyerstein dismisses as absurd the notion that 90% of a healthy adult's brain lies dormant". This information proves that everyone in Vonnegut's story cannot accurately be tested to see how smart they are in order to put a handicap on him or her completely equal to every other person.
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