Anthem 2

Mrs. Gomez English 2CP 4, October, 2011 Were the struggles for individuality that comparability and Harrison had to face, as difficult as they model it was? In the novella Anthem and the patheticly humbug Harrison Bergeron, Rand and Vonnegut use the theme of individualism vs. communism to limn the oppression of to each cardinal society, the charge apply to control its citizens and the characters that rebel. In both stories, oppression is employ to book everyone equal. The government in Anthem takes forward its citizens individuality to make a vocalisation of the assembl mount up.In both stories, oppression is used to make everyone equal. For the boy We must never be spoken, save by ones choice and as a second thought This shows that the word We was no longer used to describe people. They were their bear person. We was determined as I, the word we took away their individuality. To take away their individuality, they charge people jobs, homogeneous street carpet sw eeper or doctor, gave them no choices, because they did non anyow them choose their names or jobs, and aim them into groups so they would not be alone.George is athletic, so he weakens weights on him that slow him down, as well as being extremely in sort outigent, George wears an ear radio that goes off every 20 seconds, and the ballerinas wear masks in the story because they are beautiful. naught was come apart looking than anybody else. cipher was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was or quicker than anybody else. Nobody was better than anyone else. Everyone was equal. They used handicaps to make everyone the same. The handicapper General, Diana laze Glampers, assigns the characters handicaps to make everyone equal in the short story Harrison Bergeron.Harrison fought for his and everyone elses individuality. Fear was used to control the characters in both societies. The unknown Forrest and The Transgressor were used to scare the society in Anthem. The Transgressor wa s used as an example for all people who thought they could be an individual. The chartless Forrest make the society feel equal they were trapped. We had not thought of coming here, only our legs had carried our wisdom, and our legs had brought us to the unmapped Forrest against our will. Equality did not want to be in the unmapped Forrest because he did not know what was in at that place.Since the whole society was afraid of the Uncharted Forrest, Equality did not want to be there when he first entered. Diana moon around Glampers filled the society with fear by assigning people handicaps and shooting Harrison and the ballerina. The penalization for taking out the lead balls on the weights was time in shut up and a fine of $2000. It was then that Diana lunar month Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge slam accelerator pedal. She fired twice, and the Emperor and Empress were dead before they hit the floor. Diana Moon Glamp ers loaded the gun again.She aimed it at the musicians and told them they had ten seconds to get their handicaps underpin on. After shooting the Emperor and Empress, she act to scare the musicians by aiming the gun at them. The fear of being shot like the Emperor and Empress scared the other people. Harrison made an example of what not to do because Diana Moon Glampers shot him for disobeying her authority. In both stories, there were characters that rebelled against their society. In Anthem, Equality rebelled against his society by sneaking away. Equality snuck out of the group meetings and created electricity in a tunnel. So when the oldest of them asked us Where have you been? we thought of our ice-skating rink box and of our light, and we forgot all else. And we answered We will not tell you. The oldest did not question us further. Equality rebelled against the World Council of Scholars and then refused to tell them where he had been. He was not allowed to be alone because being alone brought you circumferent to being an individual. Harrison Bergeron rebels against the society by escaping from jail. Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen, she said in a crow blackbird squawk, has just escaped from jail. Harrison wants to overthrow the government, and show them how to be free and use their talents. He wants individuality for him and everyone else. He escaped from jail and rebelled against the society. In conclusion, Equality and Harrison both go about obstacles when striving for individuality. They both had the urge to be something more than the same as everybody else. In the novella Anthem and the short story Harrison Bergeron, Rand and Vonnegut use the theme of individualism vs. collectivism to show the oppression of each society, the fear used to control its citizens and the characters that rebel.