Society Is To Blame In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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People have the tendency to blame everything terrible that happens to them is because of the world around them. It's common for people to blame the world for their hardships in life if someone is having a bad day because of something small that affected them in a bad way they blame it on others. Society has the mindset it’s never their fault, anything that happens to someone they easily blame it on something even if it’s their fault. To people, it’s not their fault ever since society has been raised to blame everything on others or anything else it’s a natural thing for people. In novel “Anthem” by Ayn Rand, she discusses the way that many people choose to blame their struggles in life on other things and they believe that outside factors …show more content…
Since Equality is always being ruled by the council he must think and live the way they want him to be. If the council chose him to be something he has to be it since they are the rules of society, they want everyone to be the same, in the council’s eyes there should be no individuality anywhere and since there is no individuality or any sense of uniqueness they are refrained from being themselves. Actually, they haven't even seen themselves in person which is because they are not allowed to because if they were to see themselves they would soon realize everyone is different and they should be allowed to be different. “We stretch out our arms. For the first time do we know how strong our arms are? And a strange thought comes to us: we winder, for the first time in our life, what we look like. Men never see their own faces and never ask their brothers for it is evil to have concern for their own faces or bodies. But tonight for a reason we cannot fathom, we wish it were possible to us to know the likeliness if our own person.” (Pg. 61-62)During this excerpt Anthem Equality describes how they are not allowed to question the council’s word, they are not allowed to see their own true self but since they began to question and discover their world is bigger than it seems. They have been chosen what to do all their lives and what to believe since they’ve been ruled their entire life they have no idea how unique they are because indexicality such as saying the word “I” is forbidden and deadly. In the novel Equality describes how controlling the council is to them, they have no say so to how they want to live or what to be. Since they are so unfriended from being themselves they try to break away from that, Equality is an example of a mankind trying to
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