To what cost will one go to obtain equality and peace? Is equality so valuable that it out weights individuality and human rights? These are questions that each individual must ask themselves before pursuing the coveted ‘human equality.’ For centuries people have tried to develop states with equality and peace, but in order to obtain this, human rights and creativity must be forgone. It seems that with equality comes censorship; a term used to describe a faction that controls information and using this control for benefit. The film Harrison Bergeron is a story of a dystopia society in which equality and peace is artificially maintained by the government. In the Republic by Plato he believes state should run with class divisions that are determined by ones natural capacities, not choice. Censorship was portrayed in both of these literatures, and it is my opinion that censorship does not out weight the benefits of human freedoms and creativity. Contrary to this opinion it is vital to evaluate both sides of the spectrum, that both these states could work and equality and peace could be maintained.
Written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Harrison Bergeron is film that depicts a dystopia, where human equality is artificially maintained. Vonnegut portrays a society in ‘2081 that is finally equal’ and is completely censored under the misconception of equality. The movie shows that even under extreme control no one can truly be ‘equal’ or censored. This is proven when Harrison, the protagonist, could not deal with betraying his own values and beliefs and thus took action against the state by trying to expose the state of its handicapping and censorship. This proves that even under the most extreme control humans can not be suppressed for lengthy periods of time. Although the state wa ...