What Is The Difference Between North Korea And Anthem

In a country like the United States, a person is surrounded by choices. Choices he or she can make themselves. They can choose what to say, what to wear, and who to love. In a world like Anthem all of your choice and freedom is taken away. Everything you wish to do, you may not be able to. You never know who your parents are or who your real family is. You are born thinking government control is the best policy and best way. You can get killed and punished for something you think is right. You are raised thinking what is bad is the correct way. A world like Anthem, is a world many hope never actually becomes a reality.

This brings us to our third and final point of the thesis is that when you have a system of government that you like and other people don’t do anything about, why change it? In anthem everybody apart of the civilization thinks that their lives are normal because that is what they are used to. Since everybody is used to it they are all ok with it. And because they are all ok with it nobody wants to rebel and try to change it. Except for the people that are different. Then they end up realizing what is right and going into the forbidden forest to start a new.

Anthem depicts a dystopian society in which everything is for the community, and no actions should be committed for self. Equality has a curse. He has selfish thoughts and commits transgressions frequently. Equality does not think for his brothers or sisters in the way that is “normal”. The society that controls the city where Equality lives believes they have congruity within the community and demands blind obedience to their morals and values. In the beginning of Anthem, Equality at first follows the rules of the society and presumes their morals are free of error, but eventually begins to realize that the society is depriving people the freedom of individuality.

Anthem depicts an autocratic society, a ruler having absolute power, Anthem is portrayed as the future from the Unmentionable Times. The society in Anthem is lacking advanced technology, they live in a “technologically primitive society.” In this book there are several instances that cause question about the citizen’s knowledge and their regulations compared to our modern day society. The characters’ actions and dialogue establishes the view of how their society lacks technology and how they are mentally restricted by having to think a certain way. Throughout the book Anthem shows more of a dystopian society rather than utopian society. The inhabitants of the society are clueless they just know what The Council knows and that seems to be very little.

Maus trigger me more than Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Half of a Yellow Sun since my country has been through similar experience. My country is the Republic of Korea, also called South Korea. It is small country located between powerful countries like China, Russia, and Japan. Thus, it is a place where war never stopped even till now. Too many times, we were too close to losing our country and one time, in 1910 we actually did. Lasted for Thirty-five years, it is called the Korea under Japanese rule (or Japanese colonization). Just like the Germans did to the Jews, Japan did the same thing to the Korea maybe worse. They striped our country inside out. King was dethroned, queen was murdered, men were taken to camps for

Today's society versus the society in anthem is very different. Anthems society is all about we and us. They act in groups not thinking for themselves, all of the groups were taught that. While in our society we think and act in our own accord. Some of the ideas of the society weren't all awful. Today society compare to the society in anthem were very different but some of them are similar.

Imagine living in a society where the government controls every single aspect of one’s life; furthermore, the future fate of a human. A society where everyone is alike and no one can make any further decisions for themselves, but the great leader(s). This isn’t only being experienced in dystopian stories, nevertheless, a real life country as well...North Korea. In the novel “Anthem,” by Ayn Rand, she portrays the remarkable, dystopian society where an individual can make a difference. Such happenings can take place if the government is capable of achieving full control, although it hasn’t occurred in most areas, the possibility is amongst the slightest. However, this is untrue for North Korea, which is a country with one belief, one structure,

Up to the present time, the inhabitants of North Korea did not have freedom of speech. Those who speak up about their opinions of the government would be punished by public execution or have their family “disappear” from society and be put into labor camp (The People’s Challenges). For the public to stand up against their government and to speak out how they felt would be rare because not only they will be punished, their family will also be in danger, just for stating their opinion (Unknow 2014). In this case, no one dares to speak up, if they do they have a death wish. Furthermore, this relates to the book because, in Winston’s community, no one dared to speak out their thoughts on the government. Big Brother coax them to believe every announcement

In a recent study poling American citizens, our freedom of religion was listed as second to all other rights by a nearly innumerable margin. With that, it comes as no surprise to most that Kim Jong-Un's ordered execution of 33 Christian missionaries would earn a role as a leading news story in the United Sates. My words, however, have no value or affiliation with the United Sates of America; this issue is rooted thousands of miles away, as North Korea contiues to inflict persecution upon citizens living out their Faith. Practicing “underground” several citizens live each day in fear of their true identity beign exposed, of suffering a criminals death, or of their families having to go on without them. This fear is embodied by the people of North Korea, even as the world around them begins to find peace and acceptance among religions, but under a dicatoriship rule, there is no contest to the assimiliation that aims for neutrailty.

Next, both of the government systems are closely related in the way that they are setup to run their countries. In both societies, people are executed publicly if they are believed in any way to be traitors, or if they do something the ruler is not particularly fond of. In 1984, the citizens take time out of their days to watch the executions because it brings them enjoyment when they watch the traitor die. The difference between the societies methods of execution is the way that North Korea completes these tasks is significantly more brutal than in 1984. In North Korea, they use firing squads, beheadings, and hangings all in one execution. Whereas in 1984, they only use hangings. In both societies, people that work for the government are demanded to destroy the history that is not to their liking. In the novel, people that work for the ministry of truth are required to change or shred the history, making it like the situation never even occurred. In a very similar way, North Korea shreds all of their books because they think that the citizens should believe what the government is telling them, leaving out the benefit of having any information to back it up or that contradicts the words that come out of their mouths. Both governments also use Vaporization. In 1984, they delete all records of the person ever existing, no proof that they were ever alive. In North Korea, people just disappear, no one knowing where the person went. Along with

History has shown mankind that war often makes or breaks a nation, and in the instance of North Korea, one could question which of these it did. World War II and the Korean War in the mid-twentieth century led to the formation of North Korea, as well as to the demise of Korea as a whole. A once peaceful state, the Northern portion of the Korean peninsula has become a suffocated land of dictatorship. The wars left Korea in tatters, and in doing so left an opening for the formation of and domination by the Korean Workers’ Party (KWP). No nation is perfect, so there were inevitably revolutionaries who were displeased with the state of Korea prior to these events and had many small revolutions to gain rights or bring about change. However, since the formation of the KWP revolutionaries have had no effect at all, imprisoned or murdered for even the slightest offense against the government. The revolutionaries are a courageous political group in North Korea. The single-party state in the nation has impacted the revolutionaries in a negative way, suppressing and mistreating them to an unimaginable degree.

To add, the North Korean regime has invested a great amount of time and resources creating the “songbun system”. This system prescribes each citizen with a level of perceived political loyalty based on your family’s background. Your particular songbun level can then restrict your life opportunities, including where you can live, educational opportunities, Party membership, military service, occupation, and treatment by the criminal justice system. Any perceived political infractions by your family will lead to your songbun being demoted.

A various amount of societies appear prominent throughout the coarse of the modern world that developed methods to maintain a stable economy and government and not provoke social disorder in their country. However some governments enforce several restrictions upon their society that restrict access to basic freedoms such as food, water, freedom of speech, and guaranteed safety by the authorities. Both of these descriptions that pertain to countries who struggle with adversities like this describe France during the French Revolution of 1848 as well as North Korea today. But although France had already implemented a revolt against their authority figure, the progress for amending North Korea’s society in this manner seems to be prolonged. The appalling laws enforced by the leader, the completely fractured economy, and austere restrictions for the working class in both France in 1848

At the age of 7, I witnessed my first public execution. Around the age of 10, I had to suffer through the severe famine that hit North Korea. At the age of 15, I noticed the excessive amount of people that were suffering and dying on the streets of my home country. At the age of 17, I began a perilous journey to escape the harsh conditions of North Korea. 안녕하세요 여러분 나의 이름은 이현서 입니다. Hello, everyone, my name is Hyeonseo Lee. I am a North Korean Defector and Human Rights Campaigner. I am fighting for the freedom of the North Korean citizens. Many of the people in North Korea are suffering and I was one of those people. The people in my home country have to suffer from the harsh conditions of the government. The government would also kill

Imagine a society that is so strict that even a simple rule break can result in a severe punishment. In Anthem, this is just everyday life for the society that Equality 7-2521 lives in. The society that was created in Anthem was an attempt to make a utopia but instead ended up in a dystopia. In this society, people are assigned their jobs and are forced to take that job that was assigned to them. The government controls everything and has taken many steps to eliminate all freedom from the society. Much knowledge from modern day society has been erased in Anthem and has been replaced with false facts that all of their citizens believe. “We learned that the earth is flat and the sun revolves around it, which causes the day and night.” (Rand 23). Once Equality 7-2521 has broken out of the society, he discovers a place in the mountains away from the old society. He lives their with International 4-8818 or the nickname that Equality 7-2521 dubbed her, The Golden One. While living in the glass house on the mountain, Equality discovers freedom and starts using the forbidden word from the old society, “I”. Equality 7-2521 will abandon all the rules from his old society because of technology, ego, and last but not least, freedom.