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Rules And Controls In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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The City in the book Anthem by Ayn Rand has a plentiful amount of rules and controls that they use to keep the citizens in line. These rules exist for many reasons. All of the rules and controls have a purpose. And some of those rules and controls will be in the society that Equality 7-2521 envisioned creating. The rules and controls in this society exists for a few reasons, but they exist for one main reason. All of these rules they have to control the people in this city are so they can have a “perfect” world. The leaders or rulers in this world want no contention, individualism, choices, bad decisions, and many others things that can cause contention. “We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever.” (page 19). This is the pledge that they make the citizens say every day such as saying the Pledge of Allegiance in school now. These citizens don’t know the work “I” and they refer to themselves, one individual person, we. This is to get rid of individualism. Principles like this are used to contain their citizens. The purpose of these rules are to make sure that there is no contention, individualism, divorces, and many things like this …show more content…

Some of the rules that we have today that are laws like no stealing from others. You need rules to keep a society together, so some of the basic rules that the city had will go to his society. However rules like having to say “we” when referring to yourself will not go to his society. “He will be taught to say “I” and to bear pride of it. He will be taught to walk straight and on his own feet. He will be taught reverence for his own spirit.” (page 101). In this new society Prometheus is going to make sure that they will learn to say I, and be proud to be themselves, they will be able to learn for themselves and be themselves. These rules are going to be in this better

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