Throughout their school years teachers and other students remind equality 7-2521 that they are a sin because they think too quickly and they are too tall and they are different from their brothers. Just like in the documentary this ritualistic behavior occurs too, when almost always the North Korean citizens are around any pictures or statues of their “great leader’’ theIn Ayn Rand’s book, Anthem, the reader will find how shockingly similar Rand’s dystopian world is to North Korea. The reader will also find some differences as well due to the fact that the book is fiction and partially based on the author’s imagination as much as it is based on North Korea’s government structure, and the state of the people inside it.
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He recalls North Korea being a “Country run on tyranny and dictatorship.” The people inside of North Korea are considered one of the biggest personality cults on earth, almost all citizens seem brainwashed. When they are young they are taught right away, from when they are born to until they die, to love and worship the “great leader.” In Rand’s dystopian world, Equality 7-2521 explains how when he and his brothers lived in The Home of the Students before they would remove North Korea Undercover, Ju Sung Il talks about when he was escaping North Korea and one of his fellow guards was following beside him so that they could escape across the border. In Anthem, Equality 7-2521 and International 4-8818 stumble upon a tunnel that probably one was a man made train station, but they do not report it to the Council like they are supposed to instead Equality 7-2521 decides that he will keep it as his own private place and that if he were to have his life taken for hiding it so be it. His friend, International 4-8818 is right by his side through the whole thing and …show more content…
A big difference that I saw between North Korea and Rand’s dystopian world, the structures of each government. In the book Anthem the dystopian world Ayn Rand describes has different ranks and jobs and each job more superior than the other even though no one is ever allowed to say that they are superior to the other. “The Council is above all things for it is the will of our brothers, which is holy...It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them.” But in a documentary on North Korea called, Under The Sun, the narrator explains “...Representatives of the dependent Social Democratic and jaundiced parties that have no real power.” Everything is run by their dictator and supreme leader and no one has any say in it besides him. He has the only real power over everyone and everything is completely under his
He recalls North Korea being a “Country run on tyranny and dictatorship.” The people inside of North Korea are considered one of the biggest personality cults on earth, almost all citizens seem brainwashed. When they are young they are taught right away, from when they are born to until they die, to love and worship the “great leader.” In Rand’s dystopian world, Equality 7-2521 explains how when he and his brothers lived in The Home of the Students before they would remove North Korea Undercover, Ju Sung Il talks about when he was escaping North Korea and one of his fellow guards was following beside him so that they could escape across the border. In Anthem, Equality 7-2521 and International 4-8818 stumble upon a tunnel that probably one was a man made train station, but they do not report it to the Council like they are supposed to instead Equality 7-2521 decides that he will keep it as his own private place and that if he were to have his life taken for hiding it so be it. His friend, International 4-8818 is right by his side through the whole thing and …show more content…
A big difference that I saw between North Korea and Rand’s dystopian world, the structures of each government. In the book Anthem the dystopian world Ayn Rand describes has different ranks and jobs and each job more superior than the other even though no one is ever allowed to say that they are superior to the other. “The Council is above all things for it is the will of our brothers, which is holy...It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them.” But in a documentary on North Korea called, Under The Sun, the narrator explains “...Representatives of the dependent Social Democratic and jaundiced parties that have no real power.” Everything is run by their dictator and supreme leader and no one has any say in it besides him. He has the only real power over everyone and everything is completely under his