Harrison Bergeron

What would you say are the flaws of the character Harrison Bergeron?

Harrison's main flaw is probably his pride.  Harrison was extremely intelligent in the world of general acceptance and neutrality.  In the society of the story, Harrison was so exceptionally smart that his handicaps, items worn by governmental order to decrease his God-given superiority, were greater than any other person's.  Harrison escapes these handicaps and his prison, grabs a ballerina who also was heavily encumbered with handicaps, and removes her handicaps so that she can dance beautifully.  He then declares himself the emperor.  His pride kept him from remaining low-key and possibly subverting the government that way.  Instead he felt invincible due to his intellectual superiority and of course, that led to his death as he and the ballerina made easy targets for the Handicapper General.  He also wasn't much better than the government he was thumbing his nose to - the government forced people who had any natural gifts or talents to wear handicaps in their attempt to eliminate competition and anyone feeling inferior to another.  They were tyrannical.  Harrison, by declaring himself emperor with no say allowed to anyone else, was doing the same thing.

I don't see Harrison Bergeron as being prideful.  He is a young man who has been weighed down with "handicaps" and who has been jailed.  I don't see him as having a major flaw.  He simply broke out of jail and decided to "buck" the system and take over the television station.  I saw that as very brave, actually.  It may not have been super smart to do what he did because it got him killed; however, he died happy and doing exactly what he wanted to do...dance with his beautiful ballerina.