Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s Too Equal Society The society that the story “Harrison Bergeron” portrays, is one with no passion, no spirit, merely one with no individuality. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. does a great job in satirizing the American political system. Stanley Schatt notices this in his biography of Vonnegut, where he states that Vonnegut writes “political fables that satirize the American political and this country’s relationship with both China and the Soviet Union”(133). The people of this society take the notion equality to a level that could not even be feasible in any person’s imagination. In an attempt to make people equal, handicaps are distributed among people. These handicaps range from little mental handicap radios in more intellectual people's heads to metal or other heavy foreign objects to slow the stronger people.....

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