Harrison Bergeron's Villain

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The story Marriage is a Private Affair by Chinua Achebe has a villain named Okeke. His stolid look on things made it hard for him to keep an amicable relationship with his son. Harrison Bergeron’s, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., villain would be The H-G men. They go to extreme actions to provide equality. The Judges in The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe are considered villains because of how they torture innocent civilians. Okeke is the least villainous, the H-G men are the middle villainous, and the Judges are the most villainous from the three chosen stories. In the story Marriage is a private Affair Okeke is the villain because he treats his son unfairly. For example, when Okeke heard the news of his son’s marriage with a girl he did…show more content…
When the story begins “the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year old son, Harrison, away” (Vonnegut 38) because he showed un-equality. To be certain that everyone was equal, the H-G men took Harrison away. The H-G men separated Bergeron’s family just to keep everyone equal. When Harrison escapes prison and displays his abilities, “Diana Moon-Glampers, a handicapper general, came into the studio with a double barreled ten-gauge shot gun… fired twice, and the emperor and empress were dead before they hit the floor” (Vonnegut 44). The Handicapper General caused fear in the audience by killing both the emperor and his empress was going to far for the simple reason to cause a cogent feeling in the crowd. This makes the Handicapper Generals the middle villains between the three…show more content…
For example, the judges had an “expression of firmness-of immovable resolution-of stern contempt of torture” ( Poe 858). They plan to use fear as an object to torture the narrator. The narrator’s fear grows more and more as he loses his senses. The narrator saw that “ the decrees of what to me was fate, were still issuing from those lips” (Poe 858). The judges made it seem obvious that the narrator’s life was coming to an end. The fear that the judges put into the narrator is used to help him realize the fate that awaited him. The judges are the most villainous from the chosen stories because of their evil conception of torturing and killing the narrator. The short-stories villains are arranged from least villainous to most villainous. Okeke would be the least villainous because his actions were not as extreme as the other two villains. The Handicapper General, Diana Moon-Glampers, was the middle villainous because of the actions taken against Harrison. The judges are the most villainous because of the way they tortured the narrator. In short, Okeke is the least villainous, the Handicapper General, Diana Moon-Glampers, is the middle villainous, and the Judgest are the most villainous from the three short

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