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How does "Harrison Bergeron" explore the issue of inequality and its possible solutions?
The story "Harrison Bergeron" imagines a world in which inequality has been dealt with by totalitarian means. Anyone with any modicum of talent or innate ability is given handicaps to make life more difficult for them. The only people who are not given these handicaps are those who are unintelligent, unremarkable, and otherwise incapable. The story seems to suggest that some solutions to equality will create different, more oppressive systems than the ones that originally created the inequality.
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In "Harrison Bergeron," what is ironic about Hazel saying that the announcer...
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