Fear of Ancients

For my paper, I chose the topic of how the Benefactor fears the outsiders, ancients, or unnumbered humans, whichever you want to call them. He fears them because of their imagination, freedom, and the fact that he can't control their movements or thoughts. They do what they want and he can't control that. He fears the impact and influence they could and might have on the humans of the One State. He shows this fear more by actions than words: by what he builds and by what he does to separate the people of the One State from the outsiders.

First, he builds the Green Wall, which is a way to keep the outsiders outside of the One State, and this way he can keep the citizens of the One State inside of the walls and away from the influence of the outsiders.

Second, he builds the Operation to get rid of the imagination and souls of the citizens of the One State, who are becoming like the outsiders. He fears that they will begin to mimic the outsiders because of their souls and imaginations.

Lastly, the Benefactor gets rid of the identities of the people of the One State. He gets rid of their names and their personal relationships. This keeps the people of the One State from being connected to anyone, especially the ancients and outsiders. If they have no identities then they can’t be like the ancients or connected to them in anyway; they are completely different from those the Benefactor fears.

All of these ways help to explain the reason why I think the Benefactor fears the ancients. It is shown by the way he acts and by the way he separates the people of the One State from their ancestors the ancients.