Equality 7-2521 In Ayn Rand's Anthem

In Equality’s society of Anthem by Ayn Rand, they have many rules and controls, or regulations. They have the rules in place so everyone is the same. The Council doesn’t want anyone to be different, or to have different thoughts. Equality’s new society may have no rules from the old society because he encourages differences, he hated the old society’s rules, and he knows what it means to be an outcast.

In the book Anthem, Equality 7-2521 risks his life just so he can find himself individually. The society that he lives in is a society where all men do the same job and are forbidden to have their own thoughts. Equality 7-2521 is a guy that is fascinated with the phenomena of nature and can’t help but wonder what power of the sky causes lightning and how it can be harnessed to human benefit. When Equality 7-2521 discovered a tunnel in an uncharted forest, he secretly started to perform scientific experiments that led to the creation of electricity. He knows that he is taking risks by showing the World Council of Scholars his invention, but he thinks that his invention could change the world for the better.

Set in a dystopian society in the future, the novella Anthem written by Ayn Rand is all about being a collective society which doesn’t believe in individualism. Ayn Rand constructs a society in which individualism is a transgression. The government enforces the idea of collectivism to the society. They believe that in the human race each person is not single. The protagonist, Equality 7-2521 wants to be an independent person. He wants to be free. As stated in the novel, “To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.” This statement means that in order to be successful, he has to be his own person. As the novel goes on Equality 7-2521 learns to be an independent man and frees himself from the society which forces collectivism.

“It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil” (17). Equality 7-2521 was born into a society that portrays a totalitarian rule. The people living in the controlled environment have been taught and brainwashed to know only one thing: the priority of the group over the individual person. Equality 7-2521 is one of the few people raised in the world of collectivism that is born different – filled with curiosity, gifted with intelligence; the difference leads him to believe he is cursed and evil. He was ashamed of his unique qualities and believed that he was a flaw. It is this divergence that makes him believe there is an initial

In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, nature is portrayed as a safe haven, and it is something that Equality can experience without thinking twice. Nature is an escape, a place to be you, a place to be unique. Everything in the society is sheltered and unknown, Equality describes nature in a different way than he described anything else in the book. There is a sense of relief, and it is like Equality lets his guard down and is free to be himself for a short amount of time as he describes nature. Equality describes the sky with great detail. He explains the three different colors of the sky at three different times of the day. “The sky is green and cold in our windows to the east” (Rand 27). He pays great attention to detail and the vivid colors and the way the sky looks at various times. Equality feels a sense of relief throughout the book through nature. Individuality is

The novel "Anthem" by Ayn Rand talks about a man named Equality 7-2521 and his time in the Home of the Street Sweepers and how he has committed many sins including writing in his journal. Equality 7-2521 and International 4-8818 find stairs leading into the darkness and find a tunnel. International 4-8818 wants to report the tunnel to the World of Council, but Equality 7-2521 doesn't let him. Each night, for only three hours, while the Street Sweepers are at the City Theatre, he goes to the tunnel to study. They melt metals, mix acids, and cut open the bodies of dead animals. Equality 7-2521 also stated that the men are not allowed to look at other women other then the only women they are assigned to them and vice versa. He is attracted to a woman, Liberty 5-3000, he thinks of her as the "Golden One."

“...we waited for the earth to rise and strike us in the face. But we ran. We knew not where we were going. We knew only that we must run, run to the end of our days.”-Equality 7-2521 in Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Equality 7-2521 was always been different. He wanted to become a scholar but became a street sweeper instead. One day he meets Liberty 5-3000. They fall in love but this against the law. When Equality discovers electricity he show the council of scholars. The council disapproves of his ideas and Equality runs away to the forest. Liberty secretly followed. They find a house in the forest and start a new life together. Doing this Equality 7-2521 shows that he is a complex character with character traits such as determination, curiosity, and

There are several issues in the novel “Anthem” that the protagonist of the story Equality 7-2521 must face. He is just trying to live a different lifestyle wishing to live in harmony. The main problem in the novel anthem is that Equality 7-2521 struggles for self-identification in a society that has rejected individualism in favor of collectivism. Equality 7-2521 is a man who holds on to his own mind in a collectivist society that demands blind obedience to the group.For example when Equality 7-2521 informs International 4-8818 that they will not report their discovery of the tunnel, International 4-8818, though himself an exceptionally independent man, raises his hands to his ears, "for never had they heard such words as these." The obvious

He walked courageously to the Council of Vocations. His hands tightly gripped a case that’s smaller than a kid’s shoebox. He came to present his invention, but it was going to be like teaching a baby about algebra. Equality 7-2521, later named Prometheus, is the main character in Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem. It sets in the future but the people are living in the past. This dystopian novel is about mankind set in the future timeline going through another Dark Age. It revolves around Equality 7-2521’s actions and thoughts. It also speaks of the society Equality 7-2521 lives in and its rules and regulations, but why do they have those laws? What is their purpose and does Equality 7-2521 apply those rules to his version of his society?

In the beginning of the novel, Equality 7-2521 feared that he would be punished for his sins. He feared that he would be rejected from his society because he had a different way of thinking; he wasn’t what society wanted him to be. They tried to weaken him by making him a street sweeper, but it didn’t work. His thirst for knowledge still thrived. Equality 7-2521 broke away from his society and found freedom.

A spiritual, mental, or emotional awakening places one into the position of a child, allowing one to choose their path from that on. Anthem, written by Ayn Rand describes a character named Equality who is a citizen of a “perfect” society. At a young age, he realizes he is an outcast for always wanting to learn more information, and is eventually given the job of a mindless Street Sweeper. While working, he discovers a hidden tunnel, he creates a light bulb using electricity, and shows this incredible invention to the World Council who immediately rejects it and causes him to run away and start a new life in the forest. Siddhartha, written by Herman Hesse, tells the journey of a young Brahmin who leaves his wealth to find Nirvana. Along his

“It is a sin to write this” (Rand 17). Equality 7-2521 lives in a society where it is forbidden to have individual thought and to write those thoughts down. Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, is a journal of Equality 7-2521’s thoughts and actions from his point of view. The story takes place in the future, in an unidentified city with a collectivist society. This setting is important because Equality 7-2521 does not fit in with the standards of the society and is different from the other citizens, which causes much of the conflict throughout the story.

Anthem is one of the best books you’ll ever read, if you like a good struggling books. It is about this man called Equality 7-2521 that lives in a society that does not believe in individualism. It is all men are one, that there is no “me” or “I” only “we” and “us”. Growing up Equality 7-2521 was a very bright individual, he was always faster and more intelligent child but this was not good. For this he would always get scolded and even whipped, because is not to be more than his others. He was also ridiculed for being tall, which was a sin to be different than the rest.

Equality 7-2521 is introduced to us as the main character and narrator of Ayn Rand’s beautify written novel, Anthem. He is a twenty-one year old street sweeper for the council of vocations, who displays an extraordinary amount of intellect and pride. His ambition in life is to join the council of scholars as a scientist, but the scholars fear he has evil seeping through his bones. To break his spirit they assign him to work as a street sweeper and discourage his mental intellect. He has always been a man a little too curious of his surrounding and discovers a secret tunnel on his way to the theater with International 4-8818. Eventually Equality 7-2521 will begin to passionately develop many experiments in his hidden sanctuary at night.

In the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand, the leading character , Equality 7-2521, lives in a collectivist society where the citizens have no control over their thoughts, actions, or lives. They are brainwashed to believe that the outcome of working together is righteousness, and working individually is evil. This is the basic standard in which this society lives in, therefore the citizens replace “I” with “We” in their thoughts, speaking, and writings. At the close of the book, Equality 7-2521 becomes an egoist, his new philosophy is that he needs to work for the good of himself, and based on the society he was raised in, the reader could agree with Equality’s new ideology about living life.