Individualism, Modern Capitalism, and Dystopian Visions
Question 3 • FT English 12 (E.Ola) - Quarter 3 - WHS
Read the excerpt from Anthem.Here, on this mountain, I and my sons and my chosen friends shall build our new land and our fort. And it will become as the heart of the earth, lost and hidden at first, but beating, beating louder each day. And word of it will reach every corner of the earth. And the roads of the world will become as veins which will carry the best of the world’s blood to my threshold. And all my brothers, and the Councils of my brothers, will hear of it, but they will be impotent against me. The imagery of “the heart” suggests what relationship between the society the narrator plans to build on the mountain and the outside world?
Answer
A
The new society will be restricted to the narrator’s sons and selected friends.
B
Membership for the new society on the mountain will be open to anyone.
C
The narrator will establish the new society on the mountain and then will bring it to his brothers and the Councils of brothers.
D
News of the new society on the mountain will gradually spread to the outside world, and the independent thinkers will come to it.
Explanation
The heart image suggests the new society will become a living center whose influence gradually spreads outward. The narrator says its “beating” will grow louder, word will reach every corner, and roads will carry the world’s “best” people to his threshold. This supports the idea that independent thinkers will hear about the society and come to it, rather than the narrator simply bringing it to his brothers and their Councils.
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