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Anthem Essay

May 21, 2018
By Anonymous

In this collectivist dictatorship world, Equality 7-2521 experience a lot of pain living in this world. During his years in the Home of the Students, he was told that he was a sin. He was told that he was ‘cursed’ unlike his brothers. He was told that he was taller and smarter than usual. He couldn’t even use the word “I” and instead kepting using the word “We” when talking about him. His dream was to join the Council of Scholars, but the Council of Vocations gave them the job of a street sweeper. At his job, he discovered about this secret cave place. At that place, he made many discoveries like electricity. He made a product that could replace candles. Since he was working on this product of his, he made it back home very late. The Council of Home questioned where have they been, but he didn’t answer. He was sent to the Palace of Corrective Detention and was tortured there. He escaped the Palace of Corrective Detention and went to the Home of the Scholars. He presented his new product to replace the candle, but they rejected it. They started to insult Equality 7-2521 because of his job. Eventually, he ran away into the Uncharted Forest. Liberty 5-3000 followed him and together they ran away. Then they discovered about this house where they found out about everything else in the world.


Even though Equality 7-2521 had many struggles along his freedom, his victory was possible. International 4-8818 was the one person who helped Equality 7-2521 to discover the secret cave. He also did not tell anyone else about discovering the hole. This played a huge role for Equality 7-2521 because this led to many discoveries for him.  Liberty 5-3000 was the only person that loved him and supported him. They ran away together after getting into trouble. After running away into the Uncharted Forest, they soon discovered about this old house. That’s where they discovered the word “I” in the books. Then he gave himself and Liberty 5-3000 new names. Liberty 5-3000 is now known as Gera and Equality 7-2521 is known as Prometheus. Then they live together in that house from now on. Prometheus has decide to make his own government with everyone that he knows. He plans to go back into the City just for one day to retrieve his friends. He also plans to get treatment for the people that have problems. He wants to help Fraternity 2-5503 who cries without a reason and Solidarity 9-6347 who calls for help in the night. The word “We” will not used to represent themselves. He found out that every man has their own freedom. Prometheus has decided that he break all the chains every man is tied to for their own freedom. When he looked through the books at the house, he found out about a lot things. If he never discovered about this house, then the story would have went a different way. After discovering the house, it has change both of their lives forever. He found out that men used to be enslaved by many things, but men had manage to overcome them. But then men fell to the worship of the word “We” and lost all he won. After men fell to the worship, many other things has collapsed and collectivism has begun to happen. But this is all where Prometheus plans to change everything about this world. He thought that there were other people who were similar to him, but they couldn’t make it that far as he could. He also found out about that word “ego.”



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