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Dystopian Societies In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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Does a dystopian society only exist in books or is it a real life problem? A dystopia is the vision of a society in which the conditions of life are miserable, characterized by human misery, poverty, oppression, and violence. The novel Anthem by Ayn Rand is set in a dystopian society where there is no free will and everyone is forced to think alike. Dystopian societies are said to only be in novels and nothing more than fiction, but what if that wasn't completely true? North Korea is completely excluded from the outside world and controlled by their government. North Korean citizens are made to believe their leader is their ruler and the creator of all things and he falsifies most information keeping people in the dark about what is really …show more content…

North Korean citizens are forbidden to leave their country, if they do so the government kills them along with their family. People are denied any access to external media, television and radio. All social activities are controlled by the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea in order to annihilate any critical expression against the regime. Telephone calls between the people are domestically confined and are monitored at all times. North Korean citizens have no privacy within their lives. The North Korean citizens live isolated from the world due to how intense they are being monitored and how restricted they are in what they can do. The intense restrictions that are placed on the North Korean citizens keep the citizens in the dark because of the falsified information the government gives it makes them believe that they are the best country in the world. Like in North Korea, characters in Anthem are not allowed to go beyond the Uncharted Forest and what lays beyond is a mystery to them, “men of the city escape alone and run to the Uncharted Forest. These men do not return”. One night Equality 7-2521 was late to the Home of the Sweepers and was punishes, something similar to North Korea where all lights are turned off at a certain time. This explains why on google maps North Korea is the darkest country in the world. Anthem and North Korea are both dystopian societies where they have a lot of rules, restrictions, and

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North Korea, the modern day dystopia, has many similarities. There society is similar to a prison camp. They do not have a lot of human rights. North Korea is related to Anthem because the people who live in this society are closely monitored and controlled heavily by their governments. North Korean prison camps are a big part of North Korean society.

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In the first pages of his book, Lankov speaks of how the Soviet Union overcame the North of Korea and settled on dividing Korea at the 38th Parallel. Kim Il-Sung, a young military captain, “was an idealist, a fighter for (and believer in) a Great Cause—in this case, Communism.” (Lankov, 7). Elected for unknown reasons to act as a Korean Communist Liaison for Moscow, Kim Il-Sung eventually began to act upon his own accord. Incidentally, the strangest thing I find in learning and divulging into the history, politics, and North Korean Elite, is just how much they idolize their Supreme Leader.

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Monica Lising February 16, 2017 PreAP English Mrs. Daniel Fiction vs. Reality Ever wondered about living in a perfect society where nothing goes wrong? In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, the author explains how a “perfect” society is then seen in a different perspective of how awful it actually is. In relation, North Korea and the book are shown in ways with how diverse and correlated the two subjects are. The subjects are then compared and contrasted within the society that was created for and by the people of the population.

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Placing the book Anthem in the category of a dystopia is pretty accurate because the government is forcing collectivism into the society even though many are not in agreeance, people aren’t happy and are afraid to speak up, and the people don’t know the history about the

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Imagine living in a world where people are unable to think for themselves and can only carry out actions that will better everyone else. That world is a collectivist society in which Ayn Rand forces her characters to live in her book. Anthem can be defined as a dystopian book because of the setting characterization, and the amount of government control. Anthem is set in the future. Equality writes in his journal saying, “They whisper many strange things of the towers which rose to the sky in those unmentionable time,” (Rand 19).

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A Dystopian society between the real word and the book “Anthem” have a unique set of differences and similarities. In North Korea it’s structure is known as SongBun, a society as to which their ruler is the person they must worship and make all living sacrifices to please their “God”, however in the book “Anthem”, by Ayn Rand, they must live in a society where they must love all brothers as one and only one whole. In one law that’s unique in their own that they share is that they must obey or be given death as punishment. Nor shall they question what they are given as their career. The people in the society between them are different, yet the amount of love they believe is the “right belief” is equal.

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In Nothing to Envy written by Barbara Demick, the author describes North Korea as "a country that has fallen out of the developed world" (Demick 4). Through diction, Demick is attempting to demonstrate the notion that North Korea is surviving solely without interruption from the outside world. This is done by ruling the country by a totalitarian dictatorship, such as an absolute monarchy controlled by generations of the same family in pursuit of the same goal. In North Korea, each individual person is denied basic human rights in attempt to control the incoming knowledge about the world around them. They are taught to solemnly worship and abide by the rules of their supreme leader and are denied any uncontrolled access to electronics, such as movies, television, and internet.

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In North Korea, being in the Mass Games is a huge accomplishment. You train for hours on end so you will look exactly the same, as if you are becoming one. Even the military is so disciplined that they look exactly the same. But, the people in North Korea are different from the citizens in 1984 because they still have individual personalities. The Party convinces these people to all believe the same ideas and have the same opinions.

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From personal knowledge, the North Korean government is very controlling and only wants its citizens to know what the government what them to know. One thing interesting in the book that relates to the North Korean government is that they have their own radio station. While most of the radio can be purchased from the government, they are very expensive; therefore, many North Koreans that have some money and are not starving will purchase a radio from China. Those of which are purchased from China have access to all radio stations located close around. This lets the North Koreans who purchased radio from China listen to knew that is not bias towards the totalitarian society in North Korea, but instead any news related to North Korea said on the radio could be against it.

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As an American, we cannot comprehend the types of laws that are enforced upon North Korean Citizens. A few bizarre controlment rules that I still struggle to comprehend myself are there are only twenty-eight ways North Korean men and women can cut their hair, North Korean Men and Women are not allowed to own a bible or any western literature, and also there are only three channels on tv and you must only watch those. Along with those laws in place, the North Korean government has control over education and news which leads to many growing up to hate other countries besides their own with no reasoning behind their hatred. Our lives along with many others are still being affected by the iron grip of societal norms.

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