The Golden One In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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“‘Her name was Gaea. Let this be your name my Golden One, for you are to be the mother of a new kind of gods.’ ‘It shall be my name,’ said the Golden One”(Rand 99). In Ayn Rand’s futuristic novel, Anthem, the people are taught that everyone is part of a whole group. At the point where no one can even think of being an individual, they only see themselves as part of a whole group. Equality 72521 is elected the job of the street sweepers, through his job he begins to have a relationship with Liberty 53000(the Golden One), but through this relationship he begins to move towards individuality and selfishness, as the author Ayn Rand thinks we should.The Golden One and Equality 7-2521(Equality) evolving relationship throughout the book illustrates the theme that you can only be one and you are the only person that matters is yourself evidenced by Equality loving everything about the Golden One in the beginning, then he become less involved with the Golden One and it only helps if he looks at her for a while in between, and at the end the Golden One doesn’t matter to him any more and she is only for making babies and trying on pretty things. When Equality begins his relationship with the Golden One in the beginning of the novel, he thinks of her as the most beautiful and perfect person for him. When Equality first meets the Golden One he only thinks about all her good qualities and it’s all about her, also what feelings he gets when looking at her, as …show more content…

In the beginning Equality loves everything about The Golden One and doesn’t think about himself, then throughout the novel Equality turns one sided and The Golden One becomes his maid. Rand shows her theme of you can only be one and you are the only person that matters is yourself by the relationship of The Golden One and Equality throughout the novel,

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