Compare And Contrast Anthem And The Hunger Games

Matrix vs. Anthem Battle of Dystopia
The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, The Giver, what do you all have in common? They all take play in dystopian societies. Why they are dystopian novels and films so popular among teens? Maybe it’s the survival aspect of the story, or possibly the action. Teens like dystopian based novels and films because of the struggle towards greatness, the build up to the climax of overthrowing the government, escaping the facility.
To begin, Contrasts of Anthem to The Matrix. As Ayn Rand elucidates in the following text, “This was the only thing that moved, for the lips of the oldest did not move as they said: ‘Street Sweeper.’ … We raised our right arm and we spoke, our voice was the clearest, the steadiest voice in

Morpheus is like a mole, a rogue hidden in the system, he offers the truth to the people who are different. As the Wachowski brothers show, “You’re here because you know something. What you know, you can’t explain. But you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life. That there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me.” (The Wachowski Brothers) Morpheus goes through the matrix, in and out finding new people to recruit because they are different but he says he offer the truth, and he delivers. In Anthem Equality was different because of curiosity and interest of discovery, but Morpheus beckons people toward his cause. Unlike Anthem’s world, The Matrix is ruled by robots, that grow humans in incubators like we do with chickens. The robots grow humans for an infinite power source and when humans die then they get dumped because the “battery” no longer has energy left. The Matrix universe is sucked of all life, humans are forced into hiding so they aren’t captured and put into the matrix. The world that Neo lived in is based on code, as explained, “ ‘...No!...’ ‘How!?!’ ‘He is...The One...’ ” (The Wachowski Brothers) At this moment in the film Neo is shot, and dies. But then he believes in himself that he is The One, and comes back to life and instead of seeing the agents as agents he sees them as green code.

In both forms of media there is the illusion of a perfect society. In The Matrix, the matrix is a program that is widely ranged and hooked up to many many people and people don’t want to see things as anything different. In Anthem The Council makes sure that everything has order and that there is no room for error. The people living in the town are all fooled with everything wrong with the world, such as the corruption of the government. Once again they both has oppression in effect. Once someone is removed from the matrix they will forever be on the run because once they are noticed then they need to be eliminated. Like in Anthem when Equality comes back and is late he says he won’t say where he was and gets beat and lashed until he speaks but he never does. The Council is suspicious of where he goes and thinks he is planning something so they punish him so he doesn’t do that. In both the novella and the film the protagonist is different from everyone else. In the matrix neo states, “I don’t believe in fate because I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of my own life.” (The Wachowski Brothers) . As Equality states is individuality, “We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those years in the Home of the Students. It was not the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was to easy for him.” (Rand 21) Equality, unlike his brothers around him, understands things in half the time it takes for his brother