By destroying the smart student’s mind, the council can control them and cause them to become more unintelligent. The High Council gives the more important jobs, such as Scholar, to the students who are unintelligent so that the High Council can more easily control them. A smart and eager student such as Equality 7-2521, the protagonist in the story, receives a job that will dull his brain.Įquality 7- 2521 is given the job of a street sweeper he is extremely smart and the council recognized what he is capable of. In Anthem’s society, students are given jobs not to who will fulfill them the best, but based on how intellectual the student is. In Anthem the leaders of the society in the novel, the High Council, examine the students and based upon their observations, give the students their jobs accordingly. In Anthem by Ayn Rand, the leaders and society in her book seek to accomplish control by choosing the jobs for the people, keeping the word “I” unknown, and maintaining a sense of unity from birth. By depleting the mind of knowledge, a man cannot be in control of his own self and therefore is more easily conquered. A man’s mind and the knowledge that a man has is his most powerful weapon. To be in full control of a man, dictators must not only enslave his body, but also destroy his mind.
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