expression. What the government says makes law because it exists only to protect them. If, in Anthem by Ayn Rand or any other dystopian novel, the characters knew of a life in which they weren’t required to follow every mandate of their leaders they surely would not blind themselves to their potential options. For example, Matched by Ally Condie contains traits of a controlling government that, much like in Anthem, falls when a curious protagonist reveals the truth. Though these two novels serve a different
The society described in Ayn Rand’s Anthem is a dystopia where the concept of the individual is forbidden. They are even unable to point out the word “I” which is punishable by death. People do not have names that prevents them from having an identity. This is shown with the main characters like Equality 7-2521. It is a society which controls every aspect of the individual life. The children are taken away from their parents pretty much since birth and raised in special homes , parents do not
Haley Pezzarossi 11 H English 2 July 2014 Anthem: Entry 1 “And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone” (Rand 17). The first thing I assume every reader recognizes when they start the novella is the feeling that our narrator is panicked. He seems panicked about crimes he has committed, but I also get the feeling that he is glad he committed these crimes. When I read this quote on the first page, I was immediately reminded of Hemingway’s Iceberg theory. Although