Dystopian
The government really impacts the way that you live your life in the dystopian novels Station Eleven and Anthem. Both of these books, have Governments that acts differently to control its people. In Anthem the government controls every aspect of the lives of its people. In Station Eleven the prophet rules over the people. The sickness also affects the way that the group lives and provides the people with many obstacles. Government have very different ways to control the way you live your life and in these novels they take it to a whole new level.
At the beginning of Anthem you immediately realize that the government controls how they live and that the government even takes their identities away, “Our name is Equality 7-2521.” (Rand18)…show more content… Have you considered the perfection of the virus?” (Mandel 60) by saying this you can tell that all the Prophet cares about is have absolute power over the people. He does not care about the unreal amount of people that had to die in order for him to get it. That is very different way that he acts compared to the government in Anthem, they just want to keep the past a secret from the people. Past is another thing that differs in anthem the whole object of the government has for its people is to keep them from learning about the past. “We wish to know. We wished to know about all the things which make the earth around us. We asked so many questions that the Teachers forbade it.” (Rand 23) The people asked many questions about how things became to be but the government frowned upon that. They didn't want the people to know what happened in the past to make the world the way that it is, because it gave them more power. But in Station Eleven they protected the thing from there past “we are headed for the museum of civilization.” (Mandel 145) They wanted to preserve the past and make sure that they learn from it and embrace where they had come
