Welcome to the Monkey House

Who is Harrison Bergeron from Welcome to the Monkey House and what is their importance?

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Harrison is the fourteen-year-old son of George and Hazel Bergeron. He is seven feet tall, extremely intelligent, good-looking,and athletic, so he has to wear very extreme handicaps: 300 pounds of extra weight, headphones to impair his hearing and thinking, glasses to impair his eyesight, and a red ball on his nose and black caps on his teeth to hide his good looks. He is accused of plotting to overthrow the government and taken away by the H-G men in April, 2081. He escapes from jail and bursts into the television studio where the ballerinas are dancing. He declares himself the Emperor and selects the first ballerina who stands—the main ballerina, with the most handicaps—to be his Empress. He takes off her handicaps, and the handicaps of the musicians. He orders the musicians to play their best for the first time. He and the ballerina dance ecstatically until Diana Moon Glampers arrives and shoots them both to death.