Set in 2081, the story depicts society’s vain search for absolute equality. One segment of the 1972 teleplay Between Time and Timbuktu was based on the story, and it was later adapted into a TV movie, Harrison Bergeron (1995), with Sean Astin in the title role. Nonetheless, Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron,” originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science in October 1961, and currently available in the author’s collection, Welcome to the Monkey House, is a very popular short story and is often cited as an example of dystopian science fiction with an emphasis on egalitarianism. Kurt Vonnegut is celebrated more for his longer fiction than for his short stories. Analysis of Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron
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