“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it,”(Aung San Suu Kyi). The idea of equality typically gets adulterated into a mass of corruption. Equality can also be executed by taking away choice and uniqueness, which will eventually cripple the society. In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the “government”, which consisted of pigs, is dishonest, which leads the utopian society into a disastrous unequal dystopia. In Anthem, by Ayn Rand, the people are not unique and have no choice but to do as the government says, and because of this, the government has all of the power. Anthem and Animal Farm are the most similar in the aspects of …show more content…
In Animal Farm, the animals think they are living in an equal society, but the pigs, which are the head of the government, had just tricked them, because they were actually way below the pigs. The same thing happens in Anthem, where everyone thought they were living in an equal society, but the government was actually above the citizens. Equality 7-2521 believes that “...all men are one,”(Rand 20) in the beginning, but by the end of the book he believes that everyone is unique and realizes that not all men are equal. In contrast, the Animal Farm government began as equal to the other animals. But it became an unequal society when Snowball was chased off of the farm, the animals’ voice was take away, and the pigs rose above the other animals even more. Along with this, the commandments were changed, such as going from,“All animals are equal,”(Orwell 25) to,“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than …show more content…
They also controlled the society in “secret” by not showing the public their true level of power. Both governments have rules set for the citizens, such as not saying the sacred word, ego, in Anthem, and laws in Animal Farm such as the Seven Commandments, which stated that,“Whatever goes on two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal,”(25). The rules set for the society in Anthem are absurd compared to the laws in America. Equality 7-2521 says,“It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see,”(Rand 17), which shows how strict the Anthem society is. The rules in Anthem stayed the same throughout the story, unlike Animal Farm when new rules continued to be added and old rules were removed and changed. This again happened when Snowball was driven out because Napoleon could do whatever he wanted due to his absolute