According to Encyclopedia.com, “Dystopia walks a fine line between evoking the sensations of fear and inducing a sense of futility. A dystopia must arouse fear, but fails if it completely overwhelms the reader, leaving no room whatsoever for hope of amelioration” (Sisk 1). The novel explores the life of a man named Equality 7-2521 living in a dystopian society with numerous rules, who is scared for his own life until he finds his true happiness with The Golden One. The dystopian society had Equality 7-2521 locked down and not have the ability to live his life. Throughout the Anthem, by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 breaks these rules to truly find his happiness for Equality to envision a society that would not include the rules from his previous
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These very specific rules exist in the society that Equality lives in to assure that the council has control over the society and to make everyone equal. The first rule is introduced to the reader very soon. When Equality begins his journaling, he only refers to himself as “we” and not “I” which is the first rule, “We strive to be like all our brother men, for all men must be alike” (Rand 19). This rule is to assure that no one person can be above another and to talk highly about themselves, boosting their own ego. Everyone must be as equal as possible and by saying “I” proves that this one person might be above the other person. This supports that the Anthem contains rules to keep every person as equal as the …show more content…
The society’s rules are very, very strict and force values and thoughts onto the members of the society. Equality, for one, hated this and began to feel the real happiness of being alive when he escaped with The Golden One. Equality finally is free, “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. This and nothing else” (101). Freedom is key to life. If someone is not free, then they are not living. Equality has never felt love until he was free. He never felt happiness. And he never felt alive till he was free from the dystopian societies hands. All bringing it to the societies rules locked Equality up and did not let him be free, which is why his new society will not contain these
These very specific rules exist in the society that Equality lives in to assure that the council has control over the society and to make everyone equal. The first rule is introduced to the reader very soon. When Equality begins his journaling, he only refers to himself as “we” and not “I” which is the first rule, “We strive to be like all our brother men, for all men must be alike” (Rand 19). This rule is to assure that no one person can be above another and to talk highly about themselves, boosting their own ego. Everyone must be as equal as possible and by saying “I” proves that this one person might be above the other person. This supports that the Anthem contains rules to keep every person as equal as the …show more content…
The society’s rules are very, very strict and force values and thoughts onto the members of the society. Equality, for one, hated this and began to feel the real happiness of being alive when he escaped with The Golden One. Equality finally is free, “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. This and nothing else” (101). Freedom is key to life. If someone is not free, then they are not living. Equality has never felt love until he was free. He never felt happiness. And he never felt alive till he was free from the dystopian societies hands. All bringing it to the societies rules locked Equality up and did not let him be free, which is why his new society will not contain these