Equality Revealed In Ayn Rand's Anthem
It is illegal to say “I” because there is only we. The government has stripped the individual of anything that made them special and forces them into a collective hive mind with everyone else. This world of full conformity is from a book named Anthem by Ayn Rand. Anthem was written in 1938 but today the country of North Korea strongly resembles how the citizens in the book act and how their government rules them. From limiting them to better ways of living and using technology, brainwashing the entire population to think in a certain way for the benefit of the government and imprisoning those who object to the laws set forth by the government Anthem and North Korea are eerily similar. Even though they have a lot of similarities they aren't completely alike; in North Korea they worship their leaders and they do not care about the citizens relationships. The main character in Anthem is a man named Equality 7-2521 that finds a lightbulb
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“Children are born each, winter but women never see their children and children never know their parents. Twice have we been sent to the Palace of Mating, but it is an ugly and shameful matter, of which we do not like to think” (Anthem page 41). North Korea doesn't care who you love as long you love The Great Leader but in Anthem there is no marriage and no raising of children so make everyone equal. The Time of Mating is just for the repopulation of the world there is no love involved in the process. North Korea is showing signs of a changing country for instance their change on marriage, “As recently as the 1970s, the majority of marriages in North Korea were still arranged, but beginning in the 1980s the increasing trend of “love marriages” gave rise to the North Korea we see today” (nksc.co) but in Anthem there seems to be no
“Children are born each, winter but women never see their children and children never know their parents. Twice have we been sent to the Palace of Mating, but it is an ugly and shameful matter, of which we do not like to think” (Anthem page 41). North Korea doesn't care who you love as long you love The Great Leader but in Anthem there is no marriage and no raising of children so make everyone equal. The Time of Mating is just for the repopulation of the world there is no love involved in the process. North Korea is showing signs of a changing country for instance their change on marriage, “As recently as the 1970s, the majority of marriages in North Korea were still arranged, but beginning in the 1980s the increasing trend of “love marriages” gave rise to the North Korea we see today” (nksc.co) but in Anthem there seems to be no