The Bergerons' television blows out and goes dark. But the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers, doesn't seem to care much for kissing (in addition to discouraging strength, intelligence, and beauty), since she shoots them both dead with a shotgun. Just what this society needs to pull it from its homogenized doldrums: a crazed monarchy.Īnyway, the two of them dance, fly through the air, kiss the ceiling, then kiss each other. He declares himself Emperor and takes one of the ballerinas as his Empress. Harrison Bergeron has escaped! An escaped convict is just what any boring ballet, opera, or interpretive dance routine needs to liven things up a bit, and boy does it get lively when Harrison himself rips off the door to the stage and storms on screen.
The Ballet is interrupted when one of the ballerinas has an urgent government news announcement to make. This sounds like a bad episode of Minute to Win It, and no one wants to see that. No handicaps on her.)Īnyway, one night in 2018, the Bergerons are sitting in front of the TV watching ballet-bad ballet, with ballerinas wearing masks to hide their beauty and weights to hinder their grace and strength. (His wife, Hazel, on the other hand, is spectacularly average. Piercing sirens, crashes, and booms go off periodically to hinder his thought process. See, someone once decided that George Bergeron is of above-average intelligence, so he's had a radio implanted in his ear. Unfortunately for them, the government took him away when he was fourteen years old. It's the year 2081, and George and Hazel Bergeron have a son, Harrison. Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron: Story Summary
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