Freedom In Anthem, By Ayn Rand

Equality starts to become self-reliant. He searches for knowledge and relies on himself and his discovery for joy. Page 52 says, “We Equality 7-2521 have discovered a new power of nature, and we have discovered it alone and only we know it.” (Rand 52). Although searching for knowledge is valued in Christianity, Equality’s beliefs still differ from the Bible. Equality directly defies authority and only relies on himself as the ultimate authority. However, Romans 13: 1 says, “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.” In comparison with Equality’s beliefs, Equality is making himself the ultimate authority instead of God. Romans 12:2 also states, “That you should not be conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewal of your mind.” Similarly, Equality is respected but not conforming to

Imagine a world where everyone is equal; living a life that feels almost programmed. Humans may not realize the impact freedom, technology, and independence has on our daily lives; however, Anthem by Ayn Rand demonstrates the importance of these rights. The story portrays the life of a young man, Equality 7-2521, living in a society that is built on severe rules and laws. These laws are designed to eliminate individuality, resulting in an extremely controlled environment. Due to the laws, Equality 7-2521 rebels against the society. For example, Equality 7-2521 was given the job as a Street Sweeper but realized life was unchallenging for him, and was punished for going beyond his limitations. Equality 7-2521 understands that solitude is

Equality is motivated by himself. He wants to invent things. He’s not doing it for fame or to try to impress the council, but for himself. He’s eager to discover and he’s curious about things and how they work. He is very passionate about his experiments and puts a lot of pride and work into them. Equality is much smarter than the rest of his society as it states “It was that the learning was too easy”(21). He dreamed of being a scholar where he can put his talents to a good use;

He is in a society where his knowledge is stifled and not encouraged to think for himself. Equality expresses, "We strive to be like all our brother men, for all men must be alike”(7).  This had to be implanted into Equality's head by the council  which is why it is natural for individualism to be what he wants most and why he should be able to follow his own ideology. Readers see not only in Anthem but in today's world how people are taught to only think of what they know. Equality wants the council to know of his accomplishments and as a outcome to show all men how it can help improve society. He wants the feeling of accomplishment and knowing that through his accomplishments he has uplifted others within the community.

The book Anthem by Ayn Rand is about a futuristic community that has many unusual rules compared to today’s society that evolve throughout the book. These rules exist because they are to protect anything bad from happening in their society. They are strict because the Councils who have created the rules want to make sure everything is under their control. Their purpose is to enforce and maintain the people of the community. In Equality’s world that he describes at the end of the story there is most likely not going to be rules and controls that were in his birth home, because Equality doesn’t agree with the Council's’ decisions, he wishes that people should have their own opinion, and Equality has broken the laws.

Equality had many different thoughts than all the others in his society and was more lenient to break a law. He always had a negative assessment of his sins even when trying to do what was what he thought a good thing for his society. Over time, Equality negative assessment of his sins faded and he became less interested in trying to please his society. Finally, making him go to the point of making a new place of living for the select few that he has

Equality initially had a superior intellect,preferred lessons over work, and was curious about the Unmentionable Times.He wished to learn, and he asked too many questions.With his discovery of the tunnel ,he broke many rules,and regulations just to satisfy his inquiry. With the hope of finding his purpose in life ,his moral compass began to change its direction completely . He began to feel less guilty for pursuing new things,things such as the tunnel,speaking to a female, as well as the finding of electricity.Equality no longer had remorse for simply recognizing he was different from everyone else around him.He began discovering himself ,and eventually became comfortable with how he dealt with society’s practices and institutions.In a way he went from one end if the spectrum to the

Equality’s journey began when he discovered the tunnel left from the Unmentionable Times- the era before the current regime was implemented. Since the totalitarian society where Equality resided heavily revolved around collectivism, the notion of personal achievement and the pursuit of higher knowledge were forbidden and regarded as heavy sins. The heaviest sin of all was being an individual. Everything and everyone was supposed to be treated impartially as the collective “We” and every decision was made by a specific Council. The regime’s primary motto exemplified this notion. “We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, ONE, indivisible and forever” (Rand 19). As a result, many in the society in Anthem essentially lacked resolve and were resigned to their fates. The

In the book Anthem written by Ayn Rand we are introduced to a man named Equality 7-2521 who lives in a dystopian city. He faces many difficulties within the course of the story and finds out that thinking for what’s best for yourself is better than the community. Equality catches interest in a woman in his city named Liberty 5-3000 but sadly cannot associate with her because men are not allowed to even notice women. Equality becomes very critical and rebellious throughout the course of the story just by disobeying the laws of his city. Based on the number of times Liberty was actually mentioned in the story she was loving and loyal towards Equality.

Equality 7-2521 lives in a society with a government much like communism. The government, called the World Council; controls everything and anything. They limit thoughts of every person, everyone must be the same. No man or woman is allowed to think for themselves because there is no such thing as themselves. The word “I” does not exist in their civilization. Everyone is “brothers” and must all think the same. Equality is different though; he thinks as an individual person. In the beginning of the novel Anthem written by Ayn Rand; Equality believes all the laws he’s breaking are terrible sins against the Council and his fellow brothers. Equality’s eventual assessment for his sins are correct. He comes to the conclusion that he is allowed to think for his own and do what he wants in life. Equality is very intelligent; he cares for others, and strives to be a better person.

street sweeper who has his own mind. Equality is not like all of his other brothers who do the same thing everyday and don't have a mind of there own. Equality wants to learn how to do new things and be able to learn more like the scholars. This implies that the world they live in is very far behind in the technical world and it is going to be very hard for them to catch up in this world. For them to ever come back in a time like ours it would take them years to even come back. Anthems world is a lot different than this world. We have cellphones,laptops, tv’s, etc. Due to what happened to cause the unmentionable times they very far behind in

Anthem is about a man who learns about the individual person and comes to understand the uniqueness of himself. Prometheus runs away from the society who despises him. After he leaves and lives with Gaea in the mountains, he is able to discover a new world. Prometheus is able to find a new understanding of the world around him, and discover the intentions of the saint burned at the stake. Society has deemed Prometheus's behavior as sinful because he is so different and can't fit in with other people.

“Our name is Equality and we are a street sweeper form the city.” (69) This is showing that he acknowledges the fact that he is not in his right “place”. The society did not want people to change anything because they want it their way.equality affronts the council many times and is reprimanded for it.

Many readers might compare him to Thomas Edison, because Equality discovered electricity, but as you look deeper into Equality’s characteristics you’ll see that he more relates to Leonardo da Vinci. Back in the 1400’s da Vinci was a prolific inventor and way ahead of his times. When da vinci would work he would work in secret and sometimes underground so he wouldn’t get in trouble for his studies. This is definitely one of the major key factors that reminds me of Equality; because Equality too works underground to keep his studies a secret. When Equality says “For the first time do we care about our body.” and when he dissects a frog in Chapter

Many things motivate the main character Equality. Thinking of this, some may wonder what is his primary motivation. His primary motivation is to prove everyone and everything he has ever known to be wrong. He was always told to be exactly the same as everyone else, but he wanted to be different. Equality knew his invention could benefit mankind and that’s why defied all odds and proves everyone wrong. This motivates him because he’s always been told he wasn’t able to be smarter or stronger but to be equal to all of his brothers. He was always told he couldn’t be anything more than an average human being, in his period of time. This is exactly what motivates him, he was told he could have no affection to another person, no enhancements from the average person. But he knew the invention he made could help his people, but nobody cared or didn’t know because he wanted to show everyone a street cleaner could have a purpose too. Though the council rigged the system and made Equality a street sweeper because they were afraid of his enchantment over the people in the society