Dystopia In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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Kera Richards A dystopia was not always meant to go horribly wrong, they were suppose to be the best thing for the people. A utopia is a wonderful society that has structure to make it flow and be nice, but they always turn into a dystopia, which is a totalitarian society. Dystopias are known for the death, misery, poverty, violence, and war that affects the people. The process behind creating a collective society as in Anthem, requires the removal of choice, history and education. In Anthem, the society takes away the lives of the people by removing their choice. The removal of choice to the society is a huge problem because the people lose their lives in a way. At their schools the teachers would say to them “ Dare not choose in your minds work you would like to do when you leave...You shall do that which the council of vocations knows in great wisdom where you are needed by your brother, better than you know in your unworthy little mind”(Rand 22). The teachers showed the readers just how much the push to make people not dream of have hope was noticeable. Equality being the “lawbreaker” he …show more content…
In the society with them not knowing of their history makes it so the people can not escape or release what the world should be like. Equality gives the readers a little information of what he knows about the history of their society’ “But we must never speak of the times before the Great Rebirth… those Unmentionable Times,..But those times were evil..When men saw the Great Truth which is this: that all men are one and that there is no save the will of all men”(Rand 21-22). When he writes this it explains that the people had no knowledge of that time. The people are brainwashed into believing that this is how the society should be, because they know no different. Without their knowledge of their history the people will just be stuck in a big crazy world, they even lost

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