Conformity is compliance with rules, standards, or laws. Kurt Vonnegut clearly shows this in his short story as the society strictly enforces the law of equality by forcing everyone 3to be equal using handicaps. In the short story, “Harrison Bergeron,” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. illustrates how everyone is equal in this society. Vonnegut presents the idea that no one is better than anyone else because everyone is equal. To begin, one of the rhetorical devices in this story was parallelism. On page 1, it states, “Nobody was smarter than anyone else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.” The purpose of this part in the story was to show that no one was more superior than anyone else because
