Question 3
1 pts
Which lines from "Harrison Bergeron" best support the following theme?
Authoritarian governments thrive on the ignorance of the populace and on the suppression of
education by limiting intelligence and knowledge.
O "If I tried to get away with it," said George, "then other people'd get away with it-and pretty soon we'd be
right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn't like that,
would you?"
O "Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was
stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equity ws due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to
the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General."
"The rest of Harrison's appearance was Halloween and hardware. Nobody had ever born heavier handicaps.
He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H-G men could think them up. Instead of a little ear radio for a
mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and spectacles with thick wavy lenses. The
spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches besides."
O "Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George
from taking unfair advantage of their brains."