Intro:
Anthem is set in a post-apocalyptic world where society has drawn into its shell and created armor around each citizen that keeps them safe but also restricts all movement. The armor is extremely intricate, extending even into the intellectual world where it binds and crushes an aptitude for cunning, any potential for proficiency, and capacity for effectiveness to an almost non-existent size. Equality 7-2521 is the main character who struggles to break free from the mold that society has pressed everyone into. His highly intellectual mindset, revolutionary discoveries, and his fierce love for one human being equip him with the weapons to break free from society and escape to his freedom.
Body paragraph 1:
In Anthem’s education system Equality 7-2521 excels and learns much faster than his fellow peers which leads him to desire over anything else to be sent to the “home of the scholars.” While this would be encouraged in today’s society it was a taboo back then. This is what Equality 7-2521 lay awake at night thinking about: “So we wished to be …show more content…
He is very excited as he shows it to them, but they persecute him. Flinging many accusations and insults at him for being alone and even thinking that what he created is useful. Equality 7-2521 is now at the climax of all he has done and learned. At this point he is still in the mold of collectivism, halfway in and halfway out. He is equipped the weapons and tools he has developed and made both physical and intellectual. Now faced with the choice to either stand up for himself and break totally free or he could submit to the council and decline back into a collectivist robot like everyone else Equality 7-2521 makes a split-second decision. Freedom is his choice, and he makes good use of the weapons he has built up and finally escapes from the collectivist society, both physically and the
Anthem is set in a post-apocalyptic world where society has drawn into its shell and created armor around each citizen that keeps them safe but also restricts all movement. The armor is extremely intricate, extending even into the intellectual world where it binds and crushes an aptitude for cunning, any potential for proficiency, and capacity for effectiveness to an almost non-existent size. Equality 7-2521 is the main character who struggles to break free from the mold that society has pressed everyone into. His highly intellectual mindset, revolutionary discoveries, and his fierce love for one human being equip him with the weapons to break free from society and escape to his freedom.
Body paragraph 1:
In Anthem’s education system Equality 7-2521 excels and learns much faster than his fellow peers which leads him to desire over anything else to be sent to the “home of the scholars.” While this would be encouraged in today’s society it was a taboo back then. This is what Equality 7-2521 lay awake at night thinking about: “So we wished to be …show more content…
He is very excited as he shows it to them, but they persecute him. Flinging many accusations and insults at him for being alone and even thinking that what he created is useful. Equality 7-2521 is now at the climax of all he has done and learned. At this point he is still in the mold of collectivism, halfway in and halfway out. He is equipped the weapons and tools he has developed and made both physical and intellectual. Now faced with the choice to either stand up for himself and break totally free or he could submit to the council and decline back into a collectivist robot like everyone else Equality 7-2521 makes a split-second decision. Freedom is his choice, and he makes good use of the weapons he has built up and finally escapes from the collectivist society, both physically and the