Harrison Bergeron is a short story written about a teen boy named Harrison living in a dystopian society who uses his exceptionality to fight against the government. Later on, a film adaption was made. Both are completely different in mood and tone.

Harrison Bergeron is a light-hearted satire unlike its movie adaptation, 2081. In the short story, Harrison had a clown-like and laughable appearance because he was considered above average in his looks. “...To set off his good looks, H-G men required that he wear a red ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snaggle tooth random,”(45) imagining someone to appear as this in real life is humorous and would usually make someone laugh. “He flung away his rubber nose, revealed a man that would have awed Thor, the god of thunder,”(57). He also ripped away the scrap metal on his body as if it were as “wet tissue paper,”(54) unlike in the movie where he struggled a bit to add emphasis.
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The speech Harrison delivered at the studio had was powerful and had very high impact for the viewer/reader in both forms. It makes the observer think about both his or her and Harrison’s societies. In Harrison Bergeron, he yelled “‘even as I stand here… crippled, hobbled, and sickened - I am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived,’”(53) out to the audience and the people who stood before him as he ripped the handicaps from his body. In the film, he delivered the same words, but the actor was able to add emphasis and alter the way he spoke to all the people who were watching. Harrison was exhausted and had constantly beaten down, but he would still be a better ruler in his oppressed society. Although he was struck down in the end, he left an impact on every single citizen who witnessed his