The authors emphasis on the light supported an understanding that knowledge will be given to those whomever seeks for it.
On pg. 72-74 council was scared of light because they don’t have any knowledge of stuff that they don’t wish to know and they don’t seek it so they don’t know it council was said to know everything but they were scared of the light and therefore they are scared of knowledge and because they don’t know it they think that it doesn’t exist.
pg. 100 the wall is impassable because his brothers can’t pass it because they don’t have the knowledge to pass it or the want for knowledge and they never will they don’t have any knowledge to fight him they only thing they have is brute force and that can always disappear while …show more content…
In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality was considered damned by the standards of his society. He asked too many questions at school, was taller than his brothers, was given the job as a street sweeper, and broke the laws of Transgression of Preference. Even though he broke the standards of society, in the world of knowledge he was on top. He built the first lightbulb know to man of that time, discovered the Unmentionable Word, and realized his goal in life with the help of one thing. The one thing that guided him was his thirst for knowledge. The authors emphasis on the light creates an understanding those whomever seek for knowledge will be given to those whomever seek for …show more content…
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.” (pg.100). This quote helps us to understand how far Equality's former society is from knowledge. The electricity was described as being a granite wall, the barrier that Equality’s brother would never be able to pass because they don’t seek for knowledge. Equality has knowledge because he sought it and he got it.
“And is this should lighten the toil of men,” said Similarity 5-0306, “then it is a great evil, for men have no cause to exist save in toiling for other men.” The council doesn’t want the light bulb to lighten the toil of men because when it does the people will have more time. The people won’t know what to do with that time and will start questioning things. Then the more the people question the more they will want answers. This will arouse people's natural curiosity and people will start rebelling. this is what the council is scared of therefore they forbid the light
On pg. 72-74 council was scared of light because they don’t have any knowledge of stuff that they don’t wish to know and they don’t seek it so they don’t know it council was said to know everything but they were scared of the light and therefore they are scared of knowledge and because they don’t know it they think that it doesn’t exist.
pg. 100 the wall is impassable because his brothers can’t pass it because they don’t have the knowledge to pass it or the want for knowledge and they never will they don’t have any knowledge to fight him they only thing they have is brute force and that can always disappear while …show more content…
In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality was considered damned by the standards of his society. He asked too many questions at school, was taller than his brothers, was given the job as a street sweeper, and broke the laws of Transgression of Preference. Even though he broke the standards of society, in the world of knowledge he was on top. He built the first lightbulb know to man of that time, discovered the Unmentionable Word, and realized his goal in life with the help of one thing. The one thing that guided him was his thirst for knowledge. The authors emphasis on the light creates an understanding those whomever seek for knowledge will be given to those whomever seek for …show more content…
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.” (pg.100). This quote helps us to understand how far Equality's former society is from knowledge. The electricity was described as being a granite wall, the barrier that Equality’s brother would never be able to pass because they don’t seek for knowledge. Equality has knowledge because he sought it and he got it.
“And is this should lighten the toil of men,” said Similarity 5-0306, “then it is a great evil, for men have no cause to exist save in toiling for other men.” The council doesn’t want the light bulb to lighten the toil of men because when it does the people will have more time. The people won’t know what to do with that time and will start questioning things. Then the more the people question the more they will want answers. This will arouse people's natural curiosity and people will start rebelling. this is what the council is scared of therefore they forbid the light