Part A: Dystopia Essay
In the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand the word “I” is lost and there is no individual because people are slaves to the society's system in which everyone's lives are being controlled by the government. The individual cannot survive in this world of Dystopia because it is a sin to set yourself apart from everybody else. In the novel it says: “To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else” (pg. 101). This quote shows the concept in which only other men can take away a man’s freedom and to ensure that a man truly free, he must. Some important realizations that drove the protagonist; Equality 7-2521, to be unique was that he can only depend upon his own mind to make moral judgements and that his individuality was nothing to fear. The concept of individuality is forbidden, to the point that using the word "I" is punishable by death. In this …show more content…
They leapt to their feet, they ran from the table, and they stood pressed against the wall, huddled together, seeking the warmth of one another’s bodies to give them courage.” so since he got rejected by the Council and was yet to be burn to the stake like they said, he left to the forest; “... Then we rose, we took our box and walked on into the forest... It matters not where we went. We knew that men would not follow us, for they never enter the Uncharted Forest. ... Only we wished to be away, away from the City and from the air that touches upon the air of the
In the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand the word “I” is lost and there is no individual because people are slaves to the society's system in which everyone's lives are being controlled by the government. The individual cannot survive in this world of Dystopia because it is a sin to set yourself apart from everybody else. In the novel it says: “To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else” (pg. 101). This quote shows the concept in which only other men can take away a man’s freedom and to ensure that a man truly free, he must. Some important realizations that drove the protagonist; Equality 7-2521, to be unique was that he can only depend upon his own mind to make moral judgements and that his individuality was nothing to fear. The concept of individuality is forbidden, to the point that using the word "I" is punishable by death. In this …show more content…
They leapt to their feet, they ran from the table, and they stood pressed against the wall, huddled together, seeking the warmth of one another’s bodies to give them courage.” so since he got rejected by the Council and was yet to be burn to the stake like they said, he left to the forest; “... Then we rose, we took our box and walked on into the forest... It matters not where we went. We knew that men would not follow us, for they never enter the Uncharted Forest. ... Only we wished to be away, away from the City and from the air that touches upon the air of the