Who Is The Dystopia In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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The book called Anthem is a book about a dystopia in the future. It is a realistic fiction book that was written by Ayn Rand. In this dystopia there is no such thing as one man. There is only men. Everyone lives for their brothers and not for themselves. Nobody knows about the words I, me, or my. The government decides who they are, everything they do, and every move they make. The character who tries to resist the government is named Equality. He is bigger and smarter than the rest of his brothers. Which is why the teachers lashed him. However, the government should not be able to have control over the people because everyone is their own person. First of all, everyone has freedom. In this society you have to be what the government wants you to be. You have to know what they want you to know. Which is the opposite of freedom. But Equality is able to break away from the government. He runs into the uncharted forest and finds a house full of books and learns the words he was never supposed to know. Then he says “I am, I think, I will, my hands, my spirit, my sky, my forest, this earth of mine. Equality completely ignored the government and said what he felt. He showed the freedom has. …show more content…

They are even taught by the teachers that “ We exist through, by, and, for our brothers who are the state. That is the only thing they know. Nobody knows who they are. They have no regard for themselves and have no self-awareness. The people are just following a voice in the dark. Except for Equality, he is smarter than the others and did not follow their instructions. In the end of the book he learned the words he was never supposed to know and found out that he was a different person. Then realized how for so long he felt bad that he was better, but now that he knows what words the government was hiding, he feels no

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