Read the excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron."

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 sash-weights 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.

This excerpt best illustrates Kurt Vonnegut's message that

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Read the excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron."

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 sash-weights 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.

This excerpt best illustrates Kurt Vonnegut's message that

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Krystal Mitchell · Answer 1

Answer:This excerpt best illustrates Kurt Vonnegut's message that making everyone equal is not worth giving up our individuality, even if it is for the happiness of others. It illustrates this by showing how none of the dancers are good and how making them all equal, brings down the quality of the performance.

Alanna Hooper · Answer 2

Answer: is D: absolute equality prevents personal freedoms of expression.

Explanation: just took the test on edge and it is correct.