Imagin living in a world where the government controls your life from cradle to grave. Would you want to live in that world or would you rebel against the government? That is the sort of scenario that Ayn Rand give to our main character, Equality 7-2521, in her dystopian fiction book, Anthem. The book takes place far into the future where mankind has taken many steps backwards and now lives in cities where the government controls everything. In this world there is no I or me only we. Everyone thinks that they are doing what they are for the good of mankind and so they are nothing as long as they help mankind survive another generation. The main question facing the main character is whether or not the government should be able to control and …show more content…
This is proved by the government making equality a street sweeper, making it so men can’t talk to women, and not letting people have ideas. The first piece of supporting evidence is that the government made equality a street sweeper despite him wanting to be and being qualified to be a scholar. This is proved when equality writes, “we thought that we wished to be sent to the home of scholars when our time would come.”(19). Equality at the time only wanted to help his brothers and he liked doing science and learning new things. However, because the government does not like him, they use their power to punish him by making him a street sweeper. The second piece of supporting evidence is that making it so that men can not talk to women. This is proved by equality when he states, “it is a transgression for men to speak to women.”(17). The fact that the government is keeping them from talking is another way of the government keeping them down. The last piece of supporting evidence is that the government does not let people have ideas. This is proved when internatinal 1-5537 claims, “what is not done collectively cannot be good.”(81). This shows that the government does not want people to have ideas even if those ideas can benefit humanity. That is how the government making equality a street sweeper, making it so men can’t talk without reason, and not letting people have ideas help support the idea that the government should absolutely not be allowed to control an