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- Because Hazel had average intelligence, she received no handicaps.
- However, George was above average intelligence. He was forced to wear an earpiece that would handicap him, making him average.
- In this story, everyone is forced to be equal in all ways.
- The ballerinas are also forced to wear a blindfold so that if their face is pretty, no one will be able to tell and become distracted.
- Because Hazel and George have a son who had unusual traits, named Harrison, the government arrested him.
- However, George and Hazel cannot grieve for long because Hazel has average intelligence while George has a handicap that forces him not to think too much.
- In the television, Harrison Burgeron is seen crashing into the studio. He declares himself as Emperor and proceeds to take off the handicaps that restrain his good qualities.
- Harrison and the ballerina start to dance as the musicians are encouraged to play the best music they can until Harrison and the ballerina are killed by the Handicapper General
- Harrison declares that the woman who stands up first will be made his Empress. In response a ballerina stands up. Harrison takes off her blindfold, revealing her beautiful face.
- On the television, ballerinas can be seen performing on stage. However, the ballerinas are all seen wearing chains on their legs to handicap them so that none of them are exceptionally good. All of them are equally average. This makes the performance predictable and boring.
- In his story "Harrison Bergeron," Kurt Vonnegut makes the point that total and absolute equality amongst all people is not ideal and that it may in fact be counterproductive. In the story, the citizens of the United States have received absolute equality amongst each other. However, because of the need for this equality, people who are talented or gifted are forced to suppress that part of themselves. When the government intervenes in the daily lives of the citizens, people are unable to protest or resist because they have all been handicapped or do not have the capability to think of doing such things. Whoever tries to resist is killed and anyone who may have remembered them soon forgets, Through this story, Kurt Vonnegut shows how society will collapse if absolute equality becomes the goal that everyone wants.
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