Anthem Questions

Anthem by Ayn Rand

The Author's perspective on the government is that society has the right to direct each person's life for the benefit of all. A society in which people are simply numbered units, completely subject to state control and planning.

Three laws hat are broken by Equality are;  " It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon paper no others are to see."

"The laws say that none among men may be alone, ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression and the root of all evil."

"We stole the candle from the larder of the home of the street sweepers... sentenced to ten years in the palace of corrective detention if it be discovered."

 I think Anthem is a Dystopia because aAnthem is set in a dystopian society: a society that's the opposite of a utopia (an ideal society). More specifically, it's set in and around a City (everything in this world starts with a capital letter), a community in which every aspect of every individual's life is controlled by the government for the sake of "the great WE." The City seems to be a self-sustaining unit, with its own ruling Councils, its own agriculture, and all of the professions needed to sustain it on its own.