What Is Lack Of Choices In Ayn Rand's Anthem

The book “Anthem” written by Ayn Rand is a book that deals with many topics within the main idea of the perfect world. The only problem is the word “I” is forbidden. “We” is the only acceptable word, there is no distinguishing yourself. The book takes place in the future, when all human rights are taken away and you live to your government's standards. No one has any individual rights anymore. The only problem for this society is that there is one person who wants to learn more, and is not afraid to do the forbidden. Someones perfect world may be different than someone else's. In ‘Anthem’ there is lack of choices, no asking questions, and no individuality. The idea of a perfect race and perfect society, while still stripping away rights is

The people who have ulterior desires other than what is accepted, are still too afraid to act as they please in fear of punishment from the government, so they still act and conform to the government standards. The rest of the population are too brainwashed to ask any questions of the government and act mindlessly. “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone” (Paragraph 1, Page 1). That quote is how the book starts off, telling the reader of the lack of individuality that the government allows. That is almost exactly how Nazi Germany was. If an individual was not up to the government standards, they would be terminated because of Hitler’s “Final Solution” and wanting to have the perfect

Anyone who acted outside what the government sees fit, was punished. People looking for extra knowledge would be punished, because once the population is educated, then there is the opportunity for the masses of the population to revolt against the government, and the government loses all of its power. “We must bring it into the sight of all men. We need all our time, we need the work rooms of the Home of the Scholars, we want the help of our brother Scholars and their wisdom joined to ours. There is so much work ahead for all of us, for all the Scholars of the world” (Chapter 1. Paragraph 37) This quote proves exactly what the government was afraid of because the people are starting to hate that way of life and they want the knowledge and to be educated so they can stand up to the officials and become independent. Again, in Nazi Germany, they kept the Jews and Gypsies uneducated so they would eventually die off and never revolt to what the Nazis were doing to them. Without education, they would never know what is right and what is wrong. It is a form of brainwashing that was done by Hitler and his Nazis, and that trait was also shown in