The Importance Of The Rules In The World Of Anthem By Ayn Rand

In every society there are a set of rules people follow by to either be controlled or to feel like they fit in their society whether it may be in education, home, or just in life. In one society you must look a certain way to be considered beautiful in most eyes, be a certain size to be considered perfect to be a model who are people who others look up to, wishing they looked like them, a certain gender to be considered stronger and have certain rights, and you must be careful and not say certain things or people will be offended and be disgusted with your opinion. Although not everyone will follow those strict rules and may rebel. Anthem is set in a dystopian future, where there are very strict rules that are set in place where you can not say the word “I” because they must refer to their brothers, who are equal to them and forced to love them. If they speak of “I” they will then be punished to death. In the world of Anthem being different is considered a sin. …show more content…
The main reason why they exist is to keep a perfect society in check. “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own.” (Rand 17) A rule is that you can not write your thoughts or words others do not think down on paper for no one to see. You have to think what everyone else thinks. Everything and everyone are equal including your thoughts. Without this rule or the others, people will think differently than others such as Equality. To control a society everything has to be completely congruent with each other. There can not be new different things or else the society will be destroyed. Although the rules are not being used correctly and many are disobeying them in