chapter 2 anthem

In the story I'm reading called Athens the word that equality is trying to recapture could be a word of independence and for the people to express themselves as an individual.The people that run athens obviosly don't want there people in fear so they can manipulate them and have them work with them so there could be a higher powered person somewhere watching and he's obviously vary paranoid by threatining death just by people wanting to be there own person and figure things out with there own ways by first hand experience. If all the people of Athens were free and had freedom of speech and could make a living by doing what they love they couldn't be manipulated and scared in to doing what others told them so there trying to make a perfect but not so perfect world..