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- He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren't really very good no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sashweight sand bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in.
- 2. Hazel saw him wince. Having no mental handicap herself, she had to ask George what the latest sound had been.
- 1. George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. But he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts.
- 4. I'd think it would be real interesting, hearing all the different sounds
- 5. ...said Hazel a little envious.
- 3. Sounded like somebody hitting a milk bottle with a ball peen hammer.
- 2. She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous. And it was easy to see that she was the strongest and most graceful of all the dancers, for her handicap bags were as big as those worn by two-hundred pound men.
- 3. And she had to apologize at once for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman to use. Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody. 
- 7. ...she said in a grackle squawk.
- 6. Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen.
- 5. ...she said, and she began again, making her voice absolutely uncompetitive.
- 1. Ladies and Gentlemen.
- 4. Excuse me-
- I am the Emperor... Do you hear? I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once... Even as I stand here... crippled, hobbled, sickened - I am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived!
- 1. George came back in with the beer, paused while a handicap signal shook him up. And then he sat down again.
- 14. Gee-... I could tell that one was a doozy.
- 12. Gee - I could tell that one was a doozy.
- 5. I forget... Something real sad on television.
- 9. I always do.
- 7. It's all kind of mixed up in my mind
- 3. Yup.
- 2. You been crying.
- 4. What about?
- 6. What was it?
- 8. Forget sad things.
- 13. You can say that again.
- 10. That's my girl.
- 11. He winced. There was the sound of a riveting gun in his head.
- In his story "Harrison Bergeron," Kurt Vonnegut makes the point that forcing everyone to be uniform in their personalities, abilities, and looks erases their individuality. Although some people think that a utopian society involves everyone being perfectly equal, Kurt Vonnegut showed that this is unrealistic. Furthermore, he highlights that this type of society would do more harm than good.
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