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Yes, I believe it could be considered a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Self-fulfilling prophecy is a result of the Pygmalion effect. According to this theory, we are influenced by other people's expectations of us. If people believe we will succeed, for example, we too begin to believe we will succeed. For that reason, we change our behavior, aligning it with the belief, making a self-fulfilling prophecy out of it.
In the short story "Harrison Bergeron", Harrison is a fourteen-year-old who is considered to be above average in a world that does not allow people to be anything but average. Intelligent and/or beautiful people are forced by the government to wear handicappers, so that others won't feel offended or humiliated. Treating Harrison like that - forcing him to wear loads of handicappers - convinces him that he is superior, that he is special, that he deserves to show how wonderful he is to the world. People's expectations of Harrison create a self-fulfilling prophecy. He will now inevitably act as if he were really as handsome and intelligent as others claim him to be.
Harrison appears on TV after escaping from where he was kept. He removes his handicappers and dances with a ballerina, until they are both shot and killed. If Harrison were truly superior, truly exceedingly intelligent, he would have known better than to do that. His actions were not the result of his real intelligence, but of his being treated as being more intelligent than others.
I am so lonely, afraid, and I want nothing more than to be home and out of this miserable place. I don’t know why Pluto brought me here. Whatever his reasoning is, I hate it so much here. I want to get out of this pit of darkness and go home to see my mother. Maybe there is somewhere I can go to explore this place.
[START OF NEW PARAGRAPH] I walked out of the palace and looked around the grounds when I came upon an opening in the fence. I slipped through and saw what looked like an old, run down greenhouse. I opened the door and stepped inside to see many withered, dead plants. I walked around and all the began to come back to life just with my presence being there. I gave all the plants some water right before Pluto walked in on me.
[START OF NEW PARAGRAPH] Pluto was very upset to find me in here and screamed at me and told me to get out of here. I ran out passed him and went back to my room and locked myself in. I sat in bed awake all night because I kept on wondering why Pluto got so upset when he found me in the greenhouse. What happened to him to make him the way that he is? I kept on pondering until I eventually fell asleep. The next morning, I woke up and went downstairs to the kitchen.
[START OF NEW PARAGRAPH] I found Pluto sitting at the head of the table sipping on some wine. “Hello Proserpina. Come sit, I need to speak with you,” Pluto said. I slowly made my way over to the chair next to Pluto and took my seat. He told me that the greenhouse used to belong to his mother and she loved flowers. He told me about his childhood and his past, and we actually had a heart to heart conversation.
[START OF NEW PARAGRAPH] A few weeks went by and I haven’t eaten anything since I arrived. Pluto sent his servants to bring back some fruit from the earth, but all they could find was a single withered pomegranate. Pluto tried to offer the piece of fruit, Proserpina [Unrelated to your question but I think that it's supposed to be 'I' instead of 'Proserpina'] said no at first, but then after Pluto left the room I bit into the pomegranate and kept six of the seeds in my mouth. Pluto came back into the room with a guy named Quicksilver. Pluto came in and told me that I could go home to my mother. I was overcome by joy and gladly went with Quicksilver back home.
