What Are The Similarities Between Anthem And The Village

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Imagine you lived in a society where you were told who you could love, who you could talk to, who you could even look at. Some people believe going back in time would bring back a kinder, gentler society. In the book, Anthem, the narrator describes the society he is living in as very contained and controlled. In the movie, The Village, a young girl named Ivy lives in a society where it is still controlled by a group of people but there is a lot more freedom. Anthem and The Village are different stories because one society allows for individual freedom and one does not, but there are similarities between the protagonists from the book and the movie including Lucius and Equality, and Ivy and Liberty. The difference of individual freedom between the book and the movie can be shown through the words of the characters. Equality talks about how in their society referring to anything as an individual and not a whole is a transgression. “We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever” (Rand 19). The society in the book is very strict, they don't believe in individuality, they have a collective society. However, in The Village the characters in the movie are allowed to speak how they feel and even enjoy relationships and love. While one society punishes its …show more content…

Lucius, from The Village, is asking permission from the Council of Elders to go into the Forbidden forest to retrieve medicine. He has watched people from the community die unnecessarily. “I ask permission to cross into the forbidden woods and travel to the nearest town” (That Guy). Equality from Anthem is much like Lucius because he invented the light and wants to leave to go explore the other societies. Both characters know there is more to life than what they were told and they are determined to find out more to advance their

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