Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this story. part a what is a major theme of “harrison bergeron”? everyone should be totally identical in every way. the average person in modern society is not very smart. certain restrictions on personal freedoms are necessary. technology can be used to control people. part b which evidence from the text best supports the answer in part a? the start of the story emphasizes the fact that “everybody was finally equal.” vonnegut writes that hazel’s intelligence was average, “which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts.” transmitters are used “to keep people like george [harrison's father] from taking unfair advantage of their brains.” harrison behaves violently when he snatches up two musicians and them slams them back into their chairs.

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive