Anthem Analysis

There is a saying, “If you walk in the footprints of others, you won’t make any of your own”. Identity defines a person’s personal or behavioral characteristic(s). However, in order to “activate” it, a person must find it by his own will or fate. Without this trait, there would not be such thing as groups (or divisions) among men. Equality, being the protagonist of the dystopian novel, Anthem expresses that there is a gap between him and society. Men can be easily attracted by one substance causing everyone to follow or fear. The author of Who holds the Clicker explains a scenario in which Mario, a victim of severe OCD, consulted to a doctor to help him sever from his disease. Thus this ties also in with novel The Meme Machine “Strange Creatures”
In Anthem, Equality starts to experiment by using his “curse” (also being his knowledge) to discover what society doesn’t see. “ [He] made it. [He] created it. [He] brought it forth from the night of the ages. ‘[He] alone. [His] hands. [His] mind. [His] alone and only” (Rand 59). Equality realizes that he is capable of inventing an idea from his own mind. In addition, the author Susan Blackmore from The Meme Machine proves that humans have a capability of imitating each other so that they learn. “When [he] imitate someone else, something is passed on” (Blackmore 3). This statement, therefore, gives hint that imitation is categorized as the “meme” to human discovery. Mario, from Who holds the Clicker goes through a more complex scene. In other words, “. . . Mario felt a surge inside of him. Later, outside, Mario peered at the world turned on, turned up, and indeed it did look different, the grass a cheerful lime green, the yellow-throated daffodils. Mario went home. He wanted to talk. He had things to do, Who needed sleep?” (Slater 8). Mario, recovering from the surgery, starts to do things like enjoying life or viewing things differently. Once a solid idea is founded with one person, they start to view and do things differently from