The ego is what constitutes the essential identity of the human being. It is defined as the ego or self of any person; a person who is able to think, feel, want, but perhaps above all, reason. The Correctional Detention Building has no guards and the locks are old. The condemned, or the failed, never attempt to escape. From the beginning, Anthem's government perpetuates its ideology before its citizens. For this reason, citizens never find out what the Council forbids them to know. Essentially, these criminals in the Correctional Detention Building are never able to conceive of the notion or concept of escape. People in the totalitarian world of Anthem have no ego: they cannot imagine the escape route, because the real prison in which they are trapped is their own mind. Prisoners are a manifestation of the fact that in collectivist society nothing can be accomplished without the permission of another. Prisoners have been raised by the system that controls them in the broadest sense. Thus, the prisoners are trapped within themselves. The Palace of Correctional Detention, to a certain extent, represents the minds of prisoners. The constraints that hold prisoners in the Correctional Detention Building are not physical constraints, but psychological ones. The world of Anthem is decidedly unique and utopian. The Council of Vocations is a totalitarian regime that rules over the people in a truly absolute manner. The Council prohibits people from displaying individuality and controls the population from birth. Evidently the beings of this world are dehumanized from the moment of their conception. In this sense, they only know what the Council wants them to know: they experience, they feel, they encounter, what... middle of paper... is nothing more than walking out of a building. Therefore, when discussing why the Board of Correctional Detention does not require substantial means of physical restraint to prevent its prisoners from escaping, it is critical to realize that prisoners are held by psychological restraints. The prisoners, raised in the totalitarian regime of the Council, cannot even conceive the very concept of escape. Furthermore, the inaction of the prisoners is a representation of the aimlessness of the citizens of Anthem. Those with a purpose would find it extremely easy to escape, as demonstrated by the example of Equality 7-2521, who emerged virtually unscathed from the Hall of Correctional Detention. The prisoners at the Palace of Correctional Detention in Anthem are trapped within themselves, and that's the key reason why they don't even try to escape.