Compare and Contrast HB+A Aristotle once said “Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons”(‘World of Quotes”) In Harrison Bergeron by kurt Vonnegut and Anthem by Ayn Rand there are two men who are forced by their government to try to be equal. Wearing heavy weights, and a huge nose to make him look ugly, while Equality 7-2521 is made to work in the home of Street Sweepers. Even though he is smart, he is also prohibited from using the word “I”. So they are both prevented from being individuals. Although Anthem and Harrison Bergeron are both a dystopian society their treatment of family and technology differs.
If human thought is suppressed, then society is collapses on itself, “The heads of our brothers bowed, The eyes of are brothers are dull and never do they look one another in the eyes. The shoulders of our brothers are hunched and muscles are drawn, as if their bodies were shrinking and wished to shrink out of sight. And a word steals into our mind as we look upon our brothers, as the word is fear” (Rands 46) This quote illustrate that society is already collapsing on itself. The men are lifeless because the council will not allow them to think for themselves. The societies as well are not able to think for themselves for if they do, the council will punish them. Being …show more content…
“Like somebody hitting a milk bottle with a bell-peen hammer” (Vonnegut 5). This fact indicates that the government possesses the technology to tell not just that George is thinking but what he is thinking. “There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but chose to ask” (Rands 5). This sums up Rand’s view of man and human potential. Soon Equality 7-2521 decides to reveal this box to the council of Scholars, and though he knows he has committed a sin he believes that his gift of electricity will outway his