Compare And Contrast Anthem And The Hunger Games

Matrix vs. Anthem Battle of Dystopia
The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, The Giver, what do you all have in common? They all take play in dystopian societies. Why they are dystopian novels and films so popular among teens? Maybe it’s the survival aspect of the story, or possibly the action. Teens like dystopian based novels and films because of the struggle towards greatness, the build up to the climax of overthrowing the government, escaping the facility.
To begin, Contrasts of Anthem to The Matrix. As Ayn Rand elucidates in the following text, “This was the only thing that moved, for the lips of the oldest did not move as they said: ‘Street Sweeper.’ … We raised our right arm and we spoke, our voice was the clearest, the steadiest voice in

the hall that day, and we said: ‘The will of our brothers be done.’ ” (Rand 26) In this section of the book Equality 7-2521 is getting his job assigned to him. There is no choice of your life in the story, The Council chooses people’s spouse, occupation, and mate, allowing no one to ever be free and never giving them a choice of yes or no. The world in Anthem is annihilate. Rand’s novella the setting is in the future many years from the present time. As well as that when we greet our main character in the real world. Equality 7-2521 disobeys orders and rules because of his curiosity of discovery. The government in Anthem the government is ruled by people as shown, “Our greeting to you, our honored brothers of the World Council of Scholars!” (Rand 69) Like most government systems, they are ruled by humans but the rulers of the government was no room for error, that’s why when they notice Equality’s ability to learn easier than others they assigned him one of the lowest jobs in the hierarchy.
As well as, Contrasts of The Matrix to Anthem.

Morpheus is like a mole, a rogue hidden in the system, he offers the truth to the people who are different. As the Wachowski brothers show, “You’re here because you know something. What you know, you can’t explain. But you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life. That there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me.” (The Wachowski Brothers) Morpheus goes through the matrix, in and out finding new people to recruit because they are different but he says he offer the truth, and he delivers. In Anthem Equality was different because of curiosity and interest of discovery, but Morpheus beckons people toward his cause. Unlike Anthem’s world, The Matrix is ruled by robots, that grow humans in incubators like we do with chickens. The robots grow humans for an infinite power source and when humans die then they get dumped because the “battery” no longer has energy left. The Matrix universe is sucked of all life, humans are forced into hiding so they aren’t captured and put into the matrix. The world that Neo lived in is based on code, as explained, “ ‘...No!...’ ‘How!?!’ ‘He is...The One...’ ” (The Wachowski Brothers) At this moment in the film Neo is shot, and dies. But then he believes in himself that he is The One, and comes back to life and instead of seeing the agents as agents he sees them as green code.

As I stated earlier Morpheus contacts Neo and gives him a way out of the matrix unlike Anthem because Equality goes off on his own and takes charge for what he needs to do, and what he needs to do is leave to ensure the safety of his intellect.
Although, Comparison between Anthem and The Matrix.

In both forms of media there is the illusion of a perfect society. In The Matrix, the matrix is a program that is widely ranged and hooked up to many many people and people don’t want to see things as anything different. In Anthem The Council makes sure that everything has order and that there is no room for error. The people living in the town are all fooled with everything wrong with the world, such as the corruption of the government. Once again they both has oppression in effect. Once someone is removed from the matrix they will forever be on the run because once they are noticed then they need to be eliminated. Like in Anthem when Equality comes back and is late he says he won’t say where he was and gets beat and lashed until he speaks but he never does. The Council is suspicious of where he goes and thinks he is planning something so they punish him so he doesn’t do that. In both the novella and the film the protagonist is different from everyone else. In the matrix neo states, “I don’t believe in fate because I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of my own life.” (The Wachowski Brothers) . As Equality states is individuality, “We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those years in the Home of the Students. It was not the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was to easy for him.” (Rand 21) Equality, unlike his brothers around him, understands things in half the time it takes for his brother

to, this is why the teacher, He is smarter than all his other brothers. Neo doesn’t believe in fate because he doesn’t like the idea that he isn’t in control. Once Neo left the matrix he could never go back, anywhere and everywhere he went there were agents hunting him down. In Anthem, Equality presents the World Council of Scholars with his light bow, his light bulb, and he must flee to never return. Both protagonists from both medias must fix what is going wrong. Neo must stop the robot from restraining the human race. Equality 7-2521 must stop The Council from controlling everything.
In conclusion, teens are interested in books and films based on dystopian societies because they enjoy going on the journey with the main character to overcome their obstacle, overthrowing the government, surviving. Equality gets punished over and over again until he won’t speak of where he was. Neo must save Morpheus from the agents, so they don’t gain access to human refuge. Neo was tracked at work and bugged, as well as that Equality got in trouble because he lost track of time and returned too late to his home. Equality is always struck down, always in trouble, always being watched. In The Matrix Cypher is a trader and will exchange Morpheus to be reinserted into the matrix. In the beginning of the story the conflict enormous and near the end it is mostly resolved and the experiences will lie with the reader.

Rand, Ayn, and Leonard, Peikoff. Anthem. New York: Signet, 1961. Print.

The Matrix. Dir. Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski. Perf. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburn, Carrie-Anne Moss. Warner Home Video, 1999. DVD.