Symbolism in Anthem This story is about how the future could look like in communist Russia, it basically explains in detail what the people in the society are living and how they think of everyone as their brothers and how men can’t look at women and can’t keep their children with them, basically no one knows who their real family actually is in this society. Ayn Rand uses symbolism to show that Anthem truly belongs to dystopian literature by discussing light, names and freedom.
As we have seen in the book Anthem, the light basically completed Equality’s life. It gave him strength and he knew at the moment that he created it that he was different and that he could bring this new invention to his society. He wanted to present it to the people at the House of the Scholars, he was so excited to give it to his brothers. “We …show more content…
Equality named himself Prometheus because when he was reading the “Unmentionable Times” books, he read; “…took the light of the gods and he brought it to men and he taught men to be gods. And he suffered for his deeds. His name was Prometheus” (Rand 99). Equality chooses this name because Prometheus was a lot like him because he suffered for his deeds and equality went thru something similar because he refused to tell the people at the Palace of Corrective Detention what he was doing so he got lashed until he would say something but he never said anything because after he got beat up pretty bad he escaped. Liberty said after him that she had read some books too and that she read of a goddess named Gaea, and that she wanted to be named Gaea. Liberty said: “And I have read of a goddess who was the mother of the earth and of all the gods. Her name was Gaea” (Rand 99). Liberty named herself Gaea because she’s going to be the mother of the society that they are going to create because she is already pregnant with Equality’s baby. “Gaea is pregnant with my child” (Rand
As we have seen in the book Anthem, the light basically completed Equality’s life. It gave him strength and he knew at the moment that he created it that he was different and that he could bring this new invention to his society. He wanted to present it to the people at the House of the Scholars, he was so excited to give it to his brothers. “We …show more content…
Equality named himself Prometheus because when he was reading the “Unmentionable Times” books, he read; “…took the light of the gods and he brought it to men and he taught men to be gods. And he suffered for his deeds. His name was Prometheus” (Rand 99). Equality chooses this name because Prometheus was a lot like him because he suffered for his deeds and equality went thru something similar because he refused to tell the people at the Palace of Corrective Detention what he was doing so he got lashed until he would say something but he never said anything because after he got beat up pretty bad he escaped. Liberty said after him that she had read some books too and that she read of a goddess named Gaea, and that she wanted to be named Gaea. Liberty said: “And I have read of a goddess who was the mother of the earth and of all the gods. Her name was Gaea” (Rand 99). Liberty named herself Gaea because she’s going to be the mother of the society that they are going to create because she is already pregnant with Equality’s baby. “Gaea is pregnant with my child” (Rand