Even though Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” and Rand’s Anthem look and sound completely different, they share some key ideas in them. “Harrison Bergeron” was published in 1961 while Anthem was published in 1938. “Harrison Bergeron” tells the story of a future society in which everyone is handicapped to keep them equal. Anthem tells the story of a civilization that regressed in technology and individualism does not exist. In both Ayn Rand’s Anthem and Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”, even though they take place in two very differently structured societies, they both show strong themes of equality gone wrong. The primary reason that the two stories are different is the type of society they take place in. During Anthem, the society is split
