Imagine you were more talented, good-looking, and smarter than the average person, but, you had to cover all of it up to fit in with the average person that is not talented. In Kurt Vonnegut’s story “Harrison Bergeron”, set in 2081, where the government strictly enforces equality among all its citizens who are seen as exceptional and are required to wear handicaps. The main character, a 14-year-old boy named Harrison Bergeron, was put into jail for being athletic, genius, and more good-looking than most and seen as a threat for it. Harrison broke out of jail during a ballet performance on live television, crashed the performance, and declared himself emperor. He picked a ballet dancer to join him and be his empress, and both of them ripped …show more content…
George and Hazel were watching the ballerinas on live television. Even though it was the ballerinas' job to be talented and good at ballet, they were not because if they were, they could make other people in society jealous of them, and the world would not be equal anymore. According to the text on page 1, “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 sashweights and 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. 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.“, Ballerinas are supposed to be good at ballet, hence their name. But in Harrison Bergeron, they aren't allowed to be good; therefore, it is not right for their society to be this equal because some of the most talented people aren't allowed to have any talent. When the ballerinas struggle to hide their talent so everyone is equal, why do they even have any ballerinas in the first place? When the ballerinas struggle to hide their talent so everyone is equal, why do they even have any ballerinas in the first