Chris Cosby
10/4/07
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Anthem Essay
Equality, the name of one, depicts the near-status of two. Equality 7-2521 from
Ayn Rand’s Anthem, is very similar to the main character in Invictis. On Equality’s side
he was under the rule of a corrupt government, yet broke free. On the other hand, the
same was true for the main character of Invicitis. The similarity is appalling as these two
take on their own society, in an attempt to reclaim their own lives.
Life was nearly unbearable for Equality at his current state of mentality. During his
time of enlightenment, or after he got his job to the point where he went to the world
council, Equality figured out just how desperate his civilization was for new technology.
The box he found was the key, the key to opening the doors of salvation, thus bringing
everlasting light into the land he calls home. With Liberty in his mind, and all the new
discoveries he hade made, Equality’s mental state towards his appreciation to his home
became drab and dull, as he thought of ways for it to be better: “We can give our
brothers a new light, cleaner and brighter than any they have ever known” (60). But even
that was a sin, for almost everything equality did was a sin in his time of enlightenment.
Equality could not take it anymore, therefore the reason for going to the world council
became clear.
The main character in Invicitis, however, was positioned in the same circumstance
as Equality. Though in a corrupt government like his, This government was much more
violent and did not hesitate to draw blood from the body of the main character of
Invicitis, just for thinking differently. The main character was torn, beaten, and
dismembered in so many ways that such torture on its own caused him to rebel. No
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amount of pain and suffering of any magnitude could describe that which was described
to be his torture. Though even he stood up and took control of his life, for he too was
unconquered.
Unconquered-what describes two, shall describe the basis of the new world which
both are bound to create in their unlawful worlds. Tyranny and suffering of both the
worlds depicted shall change by the unconquered, and so shall both worlds turn. As man
makes its stand against itself, freedom and un-limited knowledge can once again come to
the minds of the world’s people. “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of one”
(Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, 1982), thus the doings of one should also affect the needs
of those many, as these two heroes carve their path of life into their own history, and that
of many.