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A 5 page paper which examines issues such as individuality and a false sense of security as seen in W.H. Auden’s poem The Unknown Citizen. No additional sources cited.
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given up personal rights in their culture/society in order to ensure their own safety. In the days of prehistory human beings gave up their freedom, in a sense, in order
to join a society so they could be safe from wild animals. Or, as the old saying goes, there is safety in numbers. As such societys possess rules and regulations
so that all the people within are safe. But, at the same time many people blindly give up many freedoms without even recognizing they have done this, seeking other ways
to happiness, aside from individuality, that are accepted within the society. The following paper examines W.H. Audens poem The Unknown Citizen illustrating how this unknown citizen is a perfect
example of how people cease to be individuals when they give up their own voice and follow the rules blindly. The Unknown Citizen by Auden In this poem
the reader is presented with a very average individual who has apparently died. The society does not even know his name but for all intents and purposes he seems to
have done everything "right" as far as society was concerned. This essentially creates a person who is nothing, a person without any particular identity, and a person who was expected
to "enjoy" whatever society had to offer, or whatever society insisted on the citizen possessing in order to follow the norm. The narrator tells the reader, "One against whom
there was no official complaint,/ And all the reports on his conduct agree/ That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint,/ For in everything he
did he served the Greater Community" (Auden 2-5). In this one could perhaps believe that the poem may speak of one who did great things for their community, when in
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