Comparison Of Eye Of The Beholder And Anthem, By Ayn Rand

Collectivism: Comparing Anthem and Eye of the beholder Collectivism is the idea of putting the wants and needs of a group over a single person's. Collectivism is the basis of two societies in two separate pieces of work, Anthem by Ayn Rand and Twilight Zone episode Eye of the Beholder, written by Rod Serling. The leaders of these societies call upon similar rhetoric devices and radical ways to maintain a submissive and oppressed society. In Anthem, to retain power the council prevents the citizens from learning and growing, putting a cap on their education to perpetuate ignorance and their own agenda. Students are sent to the Home of the students to learn for ten years, then assigned a job by the council. Prometheus A.K.A Equality 72521 finds the work too easy and thirsts for greater knowledge, and a diverse education. Stating “we loved the science of things, we wished to know” he is even forbid to ask more questions by the teachers (Rand 23). The teachers are appointed by the council and told what to teach the students, therefore, students are never if hardly challenged intellectually. He is stifled by the system and school that teaches to submit and honor the

Prometheus mentions the burning of the man who dared to say the unmentionable word, and was killed for the transgression. Rand also depicts the uncharted forest, an unknown, yet terrifying fate for all in the dystopian society, especially those who chose to run away instead of face the council’s punishment. The speaker states “Men never enter the unchartered forest” as it is said those who enter and runaway into it never survive (Rand 48). In Serling’s fictional world, those who are unable to be transformed to look like the rest of society are sent to an isolated village where others like themselves live. They are completely shunned from the rest of society and deemed unworthy and lesser than, a threat to the uniformed