In the world of Equality the people are controlled by fear. They are told that they are doing it for their brothers to cover up for their fear. They want people to feel free but also control them. The leaders want no free thought outside what they want them to think about. Equality was the one person in a long time to defy the leaders. This all started with his experiments in his tunnel. His motivations for doing this are different but the same in the beginning and the end.
In the beginning of the story his motivations are both selfish and selfless. The selfless reasons include giving it to his people. He wanted to give it to the people he lived all his life with. He just wanted to make their lives better and make it easier for them to work. On page 25 he said " We give you the power of the sky". Later on on that page he states that" We give you the key to the earth." He also had selfish reasons to do his experiments. The one main reason is because he wanted knowledge. Knowledge is power and knowing is the best way to be the best. He wanted to know everything about the world around him. On page 20 he said " We were interested in the science of things." Knowledge to these people was a crime. They would rather die than learn new things. They think that putting back the knowledge they once knew would make them evil. He later learned the truth about his
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society and wanted to break their chains. This leads me to the next motivation he had and that was that he wanted freedom. He wanted to have freedom of thought. He wanted freedom of movement to go wherever he wanted to. He wanted freedom of will, so that his spirit was not broken. He said on page 28" The air is clear here and has no stench of men." The freedom he wanted was finally achieved in the end. He finally fought his way to free himself from his oppression. The oppressors he had to fight were both cruel and morally wrong. He wants to free his people from those he fought before so he needed to learn. The pain he had to go through was unimaginable, and now he has to go through that over again to free his people. In the end he had the three motivations of selflessness, selfishness, and love. His selfless reason is because he wants to free his brethren. He wants to make sure the people that don't know any better. On page 86 of the book he said" I shall call to me all the men and the women whose spirit has not been killed within them and who suffer under the yoke of their brothers." This could also be considered selfish because he wants them for himself. He wants to free as indicated in this next quote. On the same page as before he says" I shall call to me my friend who has no name save International 4-8818, and all those like him, Fraternity 2-5503, who cries without reason, and Solidarity 9-6347 who calls for help in the night, and a few others." This quote shows that he is human and has feelings for his brothers. All people need help from one another and Equality shows that even under these conditions friends are normal. For the selfish he just wanted to do it for himself. All people are selfish and anyone who says they aren't is lying. Him wanting these things is natural. On page 100 he said" Our son will be raised as a man." This proves that he has a sense of family. The next quote that I will use is on the same page" I have learned that my power of the sky was known to to men long ago." Love is always a factor in this. As my next two quotes will show it is his main drive. On page 98 she said" I love you." The next quote is from page 55 he said" The Golden One" This paragraph is answering the question what do you think the world would be like if everyone were motivated in the same way.
I say that the world would be a better place. Technology would be super advanced. That is because the people would work hard to make the best. Medicine would be able to cure almost anything. People would live longer and create more technology. This would increase the amount of people on the earth. This would incite people to grow more food. This would make food technology more advanced and then more people could live here. Thus creating a cycle of creation and rebuilding for our
society. In conclusion Equality's motivations drove him to do good things. People's motivations are all different. Each dream makes a picture, and all people have different ones. This allows people to be themselves.
Equality is different from the other men in his world, and because of this he has lived most of his life concealing his emotions, being outcasted and punished by the leaders and teachers of his society, and stripping himself of his talents and uniqueness, therefore he has every right to criticize the leaders who kept the real Equality trapped inside for so very long. Equality expresses his love for science and aspiration to be a Scholar throughout the book and talks of how he wished to be sent to the Home of Scholars so badly his hands trembled under the blankets at night and he had to bite his arm just to stop the pain of wanting something so much (Rand 24). To want something so badly and have to conceal it everyday with no one to share it with is a very difficult thing for someone to have to do. Equality also struggled with concealing his friendship,“International 4-8818 and we are friends.
Equality lives a great amount of his life as a follower because his conforming society establishes him to act a certain way. In fact, Equality follows the rules of his society as most men do. He follows the laws
At this point in the novel Equality does accept the moral teachings of his society. He doesn’ feel shame When Equality and his friend find the hidden tunnel from the past, they knew that they probably shouldn’t explore it, but they do it anyway because curiosity is purely human nature and sometimes you just have to go with your instincts rather than what other people say for you to do.
Is there such a thing as equality? Can you truly look at a person and say they are your equal, or are we too judgmental? No, as humans we are doomed to see the flaws in others and ourselves. The only way to truly have equality is to either have perfection, or to discard individuality all together. Seeing flaws is the only way to improve both ourselves, and others. To have equality is to sacrifice progress. Someone has to be the weak one. Without weakness there is no basis for strength. Without flaws there is no preference, and without preference there is no love. Life would become shallow and unfulfilling. Humanity needs someone to love and someone to hate.
Equality is not something we get to have when we come into this world. It is something that is being fought for and will continue to fight for as long as people think of themselves and do not think of the consequences that may occur from their own actions. In the book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco they narrowed in on what structural violence is. The different examples of injustices that were occurring around the countries. Lastly explains the ways the oppressed used there actions, words, and ideas to fight the injustices. Injustices are all around world many of which still have a lot of control to this day and take a toll on the less able. Allowing large corporations to dictate what will be said and done.
In the beginning of the book, Equality is part of the society and is not an individual. “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” (Rand #261). This quotation shows how Equality feels about sin and what he thinks a sin is. This perspective on sin is not correct because he thinks being an individual is a sin. “We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist, by
The beginning of the story opens with Equality being chastised because he is too tall and too smart. He noticed that “to be free, a man must be free of his brothers” (Rand 101). This quote shows that when society controls him, and he relies on everyone else, a lack of progress is inevitable. Even the higher powers control their city with aggressive strength; the Council of Vocations assigns Equality to be a street sweeper even though he wants to be a scholar. Out of curiosity, he finds a tunnel while on duty. He begins to write about himself, even though “it is a sin to think words no others are to see” (Rand 1). Having no obligation to others allows one to work towards their own goals, Equality is able to pass his previous instinct where “all men are one” (Rand 20). With the revelation of himself as being a separate indiv...
invention that he wanted nothing more than to share it with his people. He felt that it
In the book, Half The Sky, author’s Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn bring to light the oppression of women in the developing world. Anecdotal stories, filled with sadness, anger and hope, collected after years of reporting, depict just a few examples of this global struggle for women. At the end of their book organizations are listed, in alphabetical order, in hopes of creating a starting point for people to further support women in developing countries. With so many organization doing great work to empower women it becomes difficult to decide where money should be distributed. As a grant manager it is important to take a closer look at each of the organizations and their work to better assess where the money should go. However, the
Equality fights in what he believes in just like Prometheus. He wants Liberty to conceive his child and help create a new society for themselves and others. Equality has many similarities to Prometheus. In Greek Mythology, Prometheus brought fire to mankind. Likewise, Equality had brought fire to his town through a light bulb. It was made to show his light and power. (Ayn Rand Anthem Pg 52) “We Equality 7-2521, have discovered it alone, and we are alone to know it.”
What Shakespeare might call the fatal flaw of Fischer’s expedition seemed to be a collective lack of humility amongst his team, stemming of course from the top with Fischer himself, the “face” of the organization. Fischer was an ambitious man who was desperate to earn the respect of his peers, and came across as nothing short of overconfident when he was quoted in Krakauer's Into Thin Air as saying, "Experience is overrated. […] We've got the big E figured out, we've got it totally wired. […] (W)e've built a yellow brick road to the summit." (pp. 85-86) Even Fischer's experienced guide, Anatoli Boukreev, was not immune from pride, opting to make the climb without the use of supplemental oxygen, a decision that was not only completely unnecessary, but arguably ended up costing the lives of members of his team at the summit. Indeed, as Krakauer noted, there was a palpable lack of a team dynamic, a result of the Attraction-Selection-Attrition Theory; the team felt more like a bunch of individuals, all "in it for himself or herself." (Krakauer, p. 213) In a life or death situation, having a strong team dynamic is more important than ever. But Fischer was more interested in the parts, than the whole. As part of Fischer's ambition, he had made an effort to recruit high-profile clients, including a New York socialite who wrote for Allure magazine, and Krakauer himself, who could lend the expedition some heavy publicity, but brought very little by way of experience when it came to summiting a mountain as extreme as Everest.
King defined equality as coming together and realizing that it does not matter what people may look like on the outside, but who they are on the inside. King believes that equality is children playing with one another
...dependently did not change when Equality became older. When he discovered the hidden tunnel with International 4-8818, Equality made the decision to explore the unknown by himself, a thought that is rarely imagined in a society where there is “no transgression blacker than to do or think alone” (pg31/17). The laws regarding the separation of a person from the other people gave the leaders the authority to enforce the uniformity of thoughts.
Frederick Douglas, Chief Joseph, and William Grahamn Sumner all used equality as a call for a social justice, but all of these men had different views on what equality truly meant. similarities occur because all these men believed that their group were put behind another group of people so their group suffered. African Americans and Indians were put behind white people, while the rich’s rights were being forgotten by the public because of the poor people. The context of each of these men shaped their views on equality, and each one of these men used equality in order to further their groups personal agenda. This is why Americans did no agree on a common definition of the word equality.
to have people to their own thoughts and opinions toward life. He did not think