Literary Analysis Essay
Education and individuality today are a guarantee to almost everyone, but during Frederick Douglass and Equality from Anthem, they had to go to extremes just to learn something new. Education was so hard to get because the government had threats to anyone who tried to get more education then assigned according to their social status. Education was the power to the future as Equality and Douglass thought, but education was not always the easiest for some to get with how the society was. The society did not like the idea of individuality, which took away many freedoms of citizens. In Ayn Rand’s novel, Anthem, and Frederick Douglass, “Learning to Read and Write,” the thought of individuality was never spoken of, and education was limited to certain type of people. Education was a big part of Equality and Frederick Douglass life as they would do the unthinkable just to learn something new. Education was often said to be the power to the future. If it was not for the help of his mistress teaching him the alphabet, then he could not have learned about slavery, and eventually speak …show more content…
In Anthem, each person was educated only as much as they needed for the job they are assigned. “we do not know, but we shall learn.” Equality says this because she is trying to show off her intelligence is higher than what she was taught, but he goes on to say “we cannot stop now, even though it frightens us that we are alone in our own knowledge”(Rand 54). Equality is showing how they are afraid of being caught for teaching themselves individuality and being away from his brothers, but does not want to stop learning because of the new information he has learned on his own. the government in Equality society has threats of death to those who disobey the rules and role they are
Education and individuality today are a guarantee to almost everyone, but during Frederick Douglass and Equality from Anthem, they had to go to extremes just to learn something new. Education was so hard to get because the government had threats to anyone who tried to get more education then assigned according to their social status. Education was the power to the future as Equality and Douglass thought, but education was not always the easiest for some to get with how the society was. The society did not like the idea of individuality, which took away many freedoms of citizens. In Ayn Rand’s novel, Anthem, and Frederick Douglass, “Learning to Read and Write,” the thought of individuality was never spoken of, and education was limited to certain type of people. Education was a big part of Equality and Frederick Douglass life as they would do the unthinkable just to learn something new. Education was often said to be the power to the future. If it was not for the help of his mistress teaching him the alphabet, then he could not have learned about slavery, and eventually speak …show more content…
In Anthem, each person was educated only as much as they needed for the job they are assigned. “we do not know, but we shall learn.” Equality says this because she is trying to show off her intelligence is higher than what she was taught, but he goes on to say “we cannot stop now, even though it frightens us that we are alone in our own knowledge”(Rand 54). Equality is showing how they are afraid of being caught for teaching themselves individuality and being away from his brothers, but does not want to stop learning because of the new information he has learned on his own. the government in Equality society has threats of death to those who disobey the rules and role they are