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Hazel Bergeron
The Ballerina is one of the dancers in the televised dance performance that George and Hazel Bergeron watch throughout the story. Initially, she is subject to extreme mental and physical handicaps, as well as a disfiguring disguise. When Harrison Bergeron storms onto the stage and commands, “Let the first woman who dares rise to her feet claim her mate and her throne,” this ballerina is brave enough to stand, and so she becomes Harrison’s Empress. Harrison removes all her handicaps, revealing her “blindingly beautiful” looks, and the two of them dance wonderfully together before Harrison and the Empress are shot and killed by Diana Moon Glampers in order to quell their dissent.
Ballerina/Empress Quotes in Harrison Bergeron
The Harrison Bergeron quotes below are all either spoken by Ballerina/Empress or refer to Ballerina/Empress. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Harrison Bergeron
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The music began again and was much improved. Harrison and his Empress merely listened to the music for a while-listened gravely, as though synchronizing their heartbeats with it. They shifted their weights to their toes. Harrison placed his big hands on the girl’s tiny waist, letting her sense the weightlessness that would soon be hers. And then, in an explosion of joy and grace, into the air they sprang! Not only were the laws of the land abandoned, but the law of gravity and the laws of motion as well.
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Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor.
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Ballerina/Empress Quotes in Harrison Bergeron
The Harrison Bergeron quotes below are all either spoken by Ballerina/Empress or refer to Ballerina/Empress. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Harrison Bergeron
Quotes
The music began again and was much improved. Harrison and his Empress merely listened to the music for a while-listened gravely, as though synchronizing their heartbeats with it. They shifted their weights to their toes. Harrison placed his big hands on the girl’s tiny waist, letting her sense the weightlessness that would soon be hers. And then, in an explosion of joy and grace, into the air they sprang! Not only were the laws of the land abandoned, but the law of gravity and the laws of motion as well.
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Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor.
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