Orwell And Rand: A Literary Analysis

For centuries, mankind has attempted to create utopias, a perfect society where everyone and everything is equal, but despite these attempts Orwell and Rand show that these societies fail miserably. Rand expresses a society where every person is treated exactly equal, no person has the right to think of themselves as a better person. They are restricted to a label, rather than a name. No person is allowed to say “I”, they must always speak as if they are talking about every single person at once. Orwell, on the other hand, shows a different society where the utopia starts off smoothly, with all the animals equally sharing the workload and the rewards. As time progresses things turn for the worst, a dictator rises and takes all the animals rights

Rand shows a person discovering himself and becoming someone who has no restrictions, a person who has no boundaries. In addition to Rand voicing the theme, she also voices how Equality was a leader for those left in the society. Even though they might not have known what happened. Rand makes the reader feel that everyone should break away from the council and find out who they really are. He plans to build a great society with all of his brothers, “and it will become as the heart of the earth, lost at first, but beating, beating louder each day.” (Rand 104) Their new society will rise above all others and will be the heart, the place, where without it, the earth would crumble. Orwell, on the other hand creates a perfect allegory of the Soviet Union. All of his characters are spitting images of those that were a part of the Soviet Union. Orwell recreates the story in a way that everyone can understand. “He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?” (Orwell 55). Orwell voices the start of a dictatorship through a simple misunderstanding. This type of situation is exactly what happens in the Soviet