As I read the book Anthem, I recognized many social differences and similarities. The book is set around a time period after the supposed “Unmentionable times”, were a new society was born and was based on collectivism rather than individualism. Yet, in the times of this lifestyle, there were some similarities that do relate to our way of life. In our life we believe in individualism because everyone is free, not like in the novella Anthem were people are controlled in a collectivism society. First of all, Individualism can be described as, “a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control”. When people are following individualism, like our society, people go their own way and act like they want to. They are not controlled by one person. People who are individualist, don’t always act the same as others they act the way they think is right. In the book, towards the end, Prometheus and Gaea had settled in a house form the forgotten times and gave themselves names …show more content…
When people are following collectivism, like the society in Anthem, everyone is controlled from their birth to their end of their lives. People had to follow the rules and were not allowed to act out or do what they wanted. There was a council for the state, and world. They dictated everything that was discovered and how people acted. For example, men were supposed to go to the house of students when they were five until they were fifteen and then they were assigned a different house to where they would spend time until they were 40 doing the task assigned to the