Creating An Ideal Society In Ayn Rand's Anthem

A utopia is a place where everything is perfect. In this unit, we read Anthem and 1984, that explained different governments that could happen today. They both dealt with aspects of utopia because they tried to make everyone equal. As we learned, there is no way to create an ideal society because it helps create more problems. U.S. citizens use equality but that doesn’t create an ideal society because it points out problems. Conformity can help but it also creates rebellion and more problems. Freedom is another aspect that is confusing with a utopia because there are different types of freedoms that can be taken away. A utopia, brought along the idea of a totalitarian government but that has full control and gives no freedom or equality to its citizens. The major idea of the books is that an ideal society could never happen in this recent future which means that our society would not be a utopia. The idea of an ideal society sounds amazing but is completely false in today’s society. In today’s society, there is a large emphasis placed on …show more content…
Freedom is the ability to be your own person. In utopias, everyone is equal that means there would be nothing defining you as an individual. Equality 7-2521 brought up what freedom was to him, when he defined freedom as this, “But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else” (Rand 101 ). He wants the freedom of being himself and an individual. This relates to our society because we support individualism of everyone. We have the freedom to express ourselves. This creates a problem with having a utopia today because it goes against the idea of expression of individuality. Today, we encourage people to express themselves in any way they want. The utopia will not be happening anytime soon if it does not involve expressing