Triangulation Essay

        Triangulation Essay

In a dystopian society the government is unfair, people are often treated as forced ‘equals’, and there is always some sort of ‘hero’. Also intelligence is monitored, thoughts are controlled, and the government is feared. Technology helps with monitoring thoughts and reinforcing fear into individuals. In these dystopias, making people equal by force can make them submissive to the government. This form of obsessive control makes people do what they are told without the people questioning what the government is doing. This is portrayed in the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, the short story “Harrison Bergeron”, and the movie ANTZ.

The book Anthem by Ayn Rand is the story of a young man who is called ‘Equality 7-2521’, his name is later changed. The leaders in his town claimed that everyone will be forcefully equal, they do this by arresting someone doing something alone and deciding the lives of everyone else. The government wants people to conform, so is told to be like everyone else, anyone who wants to be different is put to death. Everyone in Anthem feels unimportant alone.

The government is similar in the short story of “Harrison Bergeron”, although the government goes to more extreme ways to make people ‘equal’. People that are above ‘average’ have to wear handicaps. The handicaps. The handicaps include but are not limited to, radios in people’s ears so that the person will not use their higher intellect against someone else, masks if they are exceptionally beautiful (clown noses and wigs are included), weights so they won’t be stronger or faster than anyone else, ect.

ps include but are not limited to, radios in people’s ears so that the person will not use their higher intellect against someone else, masks if they are exceptionally beautiful (clown noses and wigs are included),weights so that they won’t be stronger or faster than anyone else.

In the movie ANTZ by Pixar and Disney, the government again went to even more extreme ways to control the citizens. The government sent the ants loyal to the queen to war against the termites to have them killed, the worker ants were told to build a tunnel through the ground up to a lake, to drown both the workers and the queen. Every ant was told that everything they did was for the colony as well. They went to work every day, not for money but for the colony . Every ant was told where they could eat and if they could eat that day.

In each of these dystopias there has been some element to obsessive control. The government has killed citizens in each of these stories, and has made the surviving ones feel like they were dead if they weren’t with other citizens. Or handicapped them until they were nearly dead, even then they were only mostly dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.