Gaea, whose name Equality gives to the Golden One, was the Greek mother earth, who gave birth to the other gods and goddesses as well as to the sky and the sea.
He chooses this name for her because she will, in his belief, give birth to a race of gods to rule the earth. Feminists object to the naming of the Golden One, who has now been named twice by her mate, and who apparently has no independent sense of self-worth.
Rand might argue, however, that the Golden One is an active participant in the new world and that her part is to make the world beautiful and to endow her children with a sense of individualism. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Themes Motifs Symbols. Book Full Book Quiz. Mini Essays Suggested Essay Topics. Summary Chapter XII. Page 1 Page 2. Popular pages: Anthem. Take a Study Break. He decided to be Prometheus, after a heroic figure from mythology. Equality decided to call Liberty "Gaea," after the earth goddess.
Now, Equality — a. Prometheus — writes, he sees his own future life clearly. He will live in the house with Gaea, learn to grow their own food, and study the books carefully. Already, he's learned that the power he used in his light-box is called electricity, and that it was electricity that powered the house in which he's living.
He plans to learn how to produce and control it. He'll even build an electric fence around the house, once he figures out how. Apparently, Gaea is already pregnant with Prometheus' child. When he's born Prometheus assumes it will be a son , Prometheus will raise him like a real man, who knows the word "I. He'll lead them out of the City, to Freedom.
That is, he'll take them to his place. Prometheus says Freedom means freedom from one's brothers. It is only other people that can take an individual's freedom away. Prometheus wonders how it could have been possible that human beings, after slowly winning their freedom from gods, kings, and each other, could have given it up again? Individuals had no right to their own lives, and their actions were brutally controlled; they were slaves of Nazism or Communism.
But even these bloody dictatorships were not able to so alter the very terms in which humans think as to eradicate the vocabulary of individuality. The fictitious state of the novel has succeeded in expunging all concepts of independent personhood, wiping out human beings' means to even think as individuals. This act is the most thorough form of thought control ever devised. The deluded citizens have only one self-concept available to them — splintered fragments of the group.
Everyone thinks of themselves as merely nameless, faceless, individuality-less chunks of an amorphous mass. The state succeeds in eliminating all thoughts of independent existence for many years, perhaps centuries. The Saint of the Pyre is the only man who re-discovers the existence and meaning of the word "I" — and he is condemned to death. The other members of society do not even wonder about what is missing from their lives. Equality , however, says that the sight of the Saint being burned has stayed with him, "it haunts us and follows us, and it gives us no rest.
He is alone with these tormenting thoughts until the Golden One joins him on the quest to discover this lost word. Attempting to express her feelings, she realizes the inadequacy of the vocabulary available to her.
We are one. They know of the Unspeakable Word. They also recognize that they are unable to properly express themselves in the first person.
In short order, they come to realize that the two issues are the same. Despite the suppressive methods of the Councils, some members of this society retain individuality.
Equality wonders ceaselessly about the lost word. He maintains the secret of the tunnel and uses it for his forbidden research. He decides that the Golden One is not to be touched by the Councils' policies of state-controlled breeding.
He is a man who stands tall.
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