How are the ballerinas handicapped, and why are they handicapped in the ways they are? They have to wear weights to make them less graceful, and they wear masks to conceal their beauty, so that no one else will feel inferior to them while watching them.

George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped. 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.

This is the case of the ballerina. As she was extremely beautiful, she is forced to wear a mask so that she is not any better than the rest of the population.

So, on their limbs they wore bags filled with heavy birdshot (little pellets of lead) to keep them from moving too quickly or easily; they also had sashweights (like weighted cloth belts) to keep them from jumping too high.

The government made George and Hazel equal by putting a handicap on George, and nothing on Hazel because she is perfectly average. The government made George and Hazel equal by putting a handicap on George, and nothing on Hazel because she is perfectly average.

What is the meaning of Harrison and the ballerina being shot down by Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General? What are the suggestions of her name? The significance of Harrison and the ballerina being shot by the HG is that the society norms will prevail. (The society will remain everyone is equal) Hope is gone.

As he dances and swirls about the floor with the ballerina, Harrison revels in his freedom. Alas, his happiness is short-lived. Both Harrison and his dancing partner are fatally shot by Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper-General.