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- Look at those beautiful ballerinas!
- Yeah... Sorry, honey. It's hard to focus with this ear radio on.
- Look out for Harrison Bergeron. He has just escaped from prison and is dangerously under-handicapped.
- Wait... Isn't that our son?
- But Harrison and the Ballerina did not need handicaps. They forgot about them. They were no longer equal with the rest of the world. They were free! They were practically royalty! They were weightless! (They literally defied gravity!)
- Okay, now, that's enough of that. Everyone else, put your handicaps back on.
- That was so crazy!
- ...I don't know. Something that just happened on TV...maybe. I guess it doesn't matter.
- Yeah! It sure was! ...Wait, what was crazy again?
- In his science fiction satire "Harris Bergeron", Kurt Vonnegut ridicules both the belief in the desire for perfection and the obsession with television. He uses the exaggerated scenarios in this story to communicate that a world of perfect equality would be a slow, dull, boring place where no one would be able to fulfill his or her purpose. Harrison and the ballerina remove their government-given handicaps so that they are no longer "equal" with the rest of society, and they feel completely free. However, they are promptly shot and killed by Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General. This seems to symbolize society's tendency to stifle uniqueness by encouraging perfection. Vonnegut also hyperbolically demonstrates the distraction that television can cause as Harrison's parents watch the whole event on TV. They see their son invade a show of handicapped ballerinas, remove his and one of the ballerinas' handicaps, jump in the air freely with the ballerina, and then, finally get killed by a gunshot. The whole time, they are dazed in front of the screen, hardly aware of what is happening. By the time the chaos ends, they have both already almost completely forgotten the fact that they just witnessed the death of their own son. Ultimately, it seems that Vonnegut is trying to say that a world distracted by the pursuit of perfection and equality, and entrenched in the television screen, will lose both its freedom and its purpose.
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