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    Harrison Bergeron, projected on stage representing the conformity of a society with a system of government based on the equality of the weak, who are monitored and controlled by a dictatorial government. This story is a literary sample that gives us a system of government, where the law was created with the aim of limiting individuals and transforming them into beings with equality of action, controlling them through transmitters or obstacles in their bodies so that people cannot freely exercise their natural abilities and any kind of right vision. According to José Álvarez, “if everyone were equal in all areas, various obstacles would not be necessary. "A government limited to the weak, in a society where control was exercised solely by the government and where the people had no right to freedom of expression". Showing a dictatorial system, where laws are passed without the consensus of society , depriving individuals who can develop a free world, keeping people controlled and mentally and physically disabled and people cannot do anything out of oppression, for fear of breaking the law and generating chaos in society.Harrison. Bergeron 2A comparison could be made between Harrison Bergeron's scenario and Marx's theory, indicating that "the determining variable is the mode of production. Changes in this area lead to changes in the way in which groups are attached to technology. This economic determinism is reflected in Marx's theory of law. Marx's theory of law, which has greatly influenced social and jurisprudential thought throughout the world, can be summarized in three main hypotheses: (1) law. is the product of evolving economic forces; (2) law... middle of paper ...... a world of real equality, where there are no dreams, no competition and are run by a government that marks and tries as disabled . A subject of society, one who lives under the total control of a government which only thinks of its own interest and which has a society without rights, without consensus, without participation in the creation of laws and without capacity for growth through education and work.REFERENCESLaw and Society, ninth edition, by Steven Vago. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2009 by Pearson Education, Inchttp://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.htmlJoseph Alvarez, “An Overview of “Harrison Bergeron”,” in Short Stories for Students, The Gale Group, 1999. Schatt, Stanley. “The Short Stories,” in Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Boston: Twayne, 1976, pp... 119-35.