<u>Changes that the author of Harrison Bergeron wants to see in the society:</u>
Harrison Bergeron is a protagonist of the short science fiction story written by Kurt Vonnegut Junior. The story envisions a society governed by the rules imposed by a lady dictator Diana Moon Glampers, the handicapper General, in charge of ensuring equality so that no one is better than anyone else.
She has devised inhuman means to enforce her set of desires using blinding spectacles, mental radio fitted in ears to hamper normal mental processes and other mechanical aids to serve her brutal purposes.
Bergeron is a boy who has been sent to prison for no valid crime of today’s world. When he tries to assert independence and tries to overthrow domination by perpetrators of brutality, he is shot dead along with a ballerina who tries to rebel with him.
He is the person who seeks change , speaks for his basic human rights , asserts and accepts his independence as an integral part of his survival as a human being. He is silenced forever by the insecure General
. The narrator tries to say that differences of form and intelligence make us human.
All are different. Those with higher intelligence like George, should not be handicapped but allowed to think and reason out. A society that is governed by the maxims of welfare and freedom to live can only succeed. Equality should not be imposed. Differences should be celebrated and allowed as being natural.
