Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Does Equality Fit Into The Myth Cycle?

When observing the Myth Cycle and comparing the events in Anthem, there are many stages in the myth cycle where Equality fits in and doesn't for the most part. In the beginning of the Myth Cycle, the call of adventure is the start of the whole cycle. In Anthem, Equality was called from the Transgressor through the mind that there was something to be discovered and that was the motivation that caused Equality to start his adventure. Since he doesn't refuse to search for the discovery from the transgressor, the refusal of the call wouldn't correspond obviously. He is provided with a enveloped cave where no one can find or acknowledge but himself. When he discovers the lightbulb and he has now entered into the bottom half of the myth cycle in which multiple predicaments and judgement are poured upon Equality. For example, Equality is so arrogant about his discovery that he was confident with himself that presenting his invention to the Council of Scholars would give him the vocation of being a Scholar and as a result did not work very well. This would fall into the Entering the road of trials and difficult tasks. Being rejected by the Council, He ran away and later on met the Golden One or the goddess in the myth cycle after the peseverence of the difficult tasks. The next part is where Equality and the myth cycle doesn't corespond. In the myth cycle the next process is defeat or death but actually in Anthem, Equality and the Golden One prospered while surviving in the woods. As I continued to observe the myth cycle, there is Recieving a gift or boon from gods and if that was to be interpreted in Anthem, the house left from the Unmentionable Times could be a symbol or gift that Equality accepted. Equality actually refuses the Call of Return since he has no interest in ever returning to the system of collectivists and prospers into creating Individualism and at the end of the myth cycle, Living in the World: perhaps preparing for the next call, can be somewhat related to the end of Anthem because he is living in the world not from returning but waiting for his brothers and family to be accustom to Individulaism. So although Equality may not fit entirely into the process of the myth cycle, he is still to be acknowledged as one who follows it.
-Ji Lim

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