Equality In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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The city in Anthem had numerous rules and controls that severely limit anyone within the city to do anything that even might make them more of an individual. These rule are strictly enforced and for many years no one has even thought to break them. In the book Equality feels differently deep within himself and strives to rebel, even though he knows it is not what the leaders of the state would accept or even tolerate. Going against all he knows, Equality breaks from the city, with his light that he created in the subway from the unmentionable times, and flees into the uncharted forest. His beloved Liberty or “The Golden One” hears of his crimes and finds Equality and they flee together. They broke all rules, and avoided all controls they had ever known and plan to rebuild society. To begin, the rules created by the leaders of the state were made to keep complete order within the city. In the novel, when Equality broke out of the house of corrections the doors were unlocked and …show more content…

They were created to destroy all of the individualism that was in the now call unmentionable times. The word “I” isn’t used in the first 10 chapters of Anthem instead it is replaced with “we”. It is only when Equality discovers the books from the house on the mountain from the unmentionable times that he discovered this forbidden word. In the city from Anthem there is no “I” only “we”. They have brainwashed the people since the were children that there is no such thing as being an individual, they have taught them that they are exactly the same as everyone else and that the state is all-knowing and all-powerful. The war before the unmentionable times swept off the face of the earth the ones who still believed in individualism and created an entire new planet (or at least city) that believes they are one body. Being different in any way from you brothers is unacceptable in the new world that the state

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