Essay on Comparison Anthem Vs. By The W

The Golden One has a unique personality. Her face represents her strength and dignity while her hair portrays her beauty. Equality falls for her because she is able to withstand everything that the oppressive society throws at her. “Their hair was golden as the sun; their hair flew in the wind, shining and wild, as if it defied men to restrain it. They threw seeds from their hand as if they deigned to fling a scornful gift, and the earth was a beggar under their feet.” In this sentence, used a simile to create a relationship between Liberty’s hair and the sun. The readers got a sense of what this lady looked like in person. Her hair was probably luminous in color. It probably shimmered in the sunlight. This showed her strength in a corrupt society. Furthermore, her beauty sparked many more things throughout the plot other than standing up for freedom. “They threw seeds from their hand as if they deigned to fling a scornful gift, and the earth was a beggar under their feet.” Equality had a love interest in her. The way he described her helped the readers understand that her uniqueness caught the eye of a young man. Despite Liberty’s beauty, her strength made her break out of the cage of oppression in the society.

Equality stands out from everyone around him, making him an individual. This also makes him the archetype of the loner or outcast. In the beginning of the novel Equality states that, “We were born with a curse. It has always driven us to thoughts which are forbidden.” (page 18.) He also says “We are six feet tall, and this is a burden, for there are not many men who are six feet tall.” (page 18.) These quotes show exactly how Equality is an individual compared to those around him who fit in the idea of collectivism, or sameness.

Equality contemplates, “I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word “I”, could give it up and not know what they lost” (103). This quote narrates the discovery of one of the most essential words used to identify as a single, original person, I. Equality realizes the tragedy of the loss that his previous society created before his lifetime and really ponders why and how this could happen in a very separate world. Equality readies himself to be an individual person as a result of feeling strongly against the beliefs of his previous society. Equality excitedly states, “We made a fire, we cooked the bird, and we ate it, and no meal had ever tasted better to us. And we thought suddenly that there was a great satisfaction to be found in the food which we need and obtain by our own hand” (79). In the past, Equality had never done anything to express his originality because of the law stating otherwise, so when given the opportunity to finally understand his own strengths and weaknesses, he takes it. He disregards the law and excitedly grasps the concept that he isn’t supposed to be a follower like his peers were, he was meant to be a leader. Disagreeing with the law was a main point of Rand’s novella, promoting personal

gods being human. He is a well developed person. You see every aspect of John.

At the realization of the truth, John breaks down and sobs, not only from seeing how his race had been devastated before, but also at the realization that all the knowledge he had gathered as a child was false. In his unyielding desire to learn more, he never thought of what would happen once he gained the knowledge that he wanted, and if he would be satisfied if it revealed something he didn’t want to learn.

There is a power to individual thinking that forges new pathways that were not there before. Equality’s individual motivations lead him continuously in new paths and allowed him, to discover things that were about himself and in the

In the book Anthem, Equality 7-2521 (Equality) lived in a society where everyone was equal and treated with disrespect. The society had no tolerance for being different and having their own opinion and ideas. People couldn’t even pursue the career they dreamed of having. They were punished for disobeying any of these “rules”. Despite Equality’s strict society, his motivations in conducting his experiments are finding individuality, starting a new revolution, finding freedom, and trying to become a scholar.

The world in Anthem is ideal and it’s a sin for anyone to think that they are more or less than “WE”(Rand, 20). However, in Anthem there is a character that knows there is more to be discovered that his brothers does not know about yet. When Equality goes to the scholars, to inform them on the spectacular stuff he has recently learned, he is chased out of his community and into a forest that no one dares to enter (Rand, 75).

Equality’s mental escape is highlighted through his heightened knowledge. Equality’s gained knowledge gave him the power to escape his society. Once he escaped, Equality declared, “I shall learn… they have nothing to fight me with…” (Rand 41). “They” being the members of his oppressive society, Equality now realizes that no one can defeat him as long as he has knowledge on his side.

Not by the fault of Equality, the protagonist of Ayn Rands novella Anthem, and not by a lack of intelligence, but the knowledge of something more leads the Council of Vocations to try to contain the wandering mind of Equality. Such a dystopian society strives to control all its people while ensuring that nobody will try to disobey the rules set for them. A routine day allows no time for wandering or creativity; a day of isolation. The craving for new knowledge spawns a thought in the human brain to seek out things society does not yet comprehend, to explore new possibilities and conquer untouched information. This quality has been forbidden within Equality’s society; people are not allowed to crave this new material.

John is a priest and the son of a priest and has a strong desire for knowledge, the reader can see this when he said, “My knowledge made me happy--it was like a fire in my heart” (Benet 312). From this thought, the reader can tell that John’s knowledge was an everyday necessity that he needed to have in order to function, like food or water. This also helps the reader understand how important knowledge is to John and the rest of society. The knowledge John receives is so important to him that it ultimately takes him on his quest and drives him to do certain things along the way. This is strongly shown when he commented, “Nevertheless, my knowledge and my lack of knowledge burned in me-I wished to know more” (Benet 312). With that statement, the reader notices that knowledge drove him to go on his quest because he wanted to learn more, because at this point he

Note to Self “One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.-Moliere. In Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin expressed theme of internal and external change caused by the church. Baldwin expressed the internal and external change through the character John Grimes by explaining the outcome of the situations he experience in church. Internal change is the change made mentally because of emotions.

In passage 2 he said that he must go back to the again to the lonely sea?and the sky. Now?all

opening the jar that held the powers of the gods. In this act all of them escaped back into heaven,

believed that their god had kept an eye on their empire and thus why it is thriving so well.