Power And Self-Will In Ayn Rande's Anthem

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When the King of England, ruled over this land we now call America, the rebellious attitude. self will and urge for freedom, dominated the Kings tyranny over the land thus resulting in his overthrow and start of a new society. No higher power can dominate the individual, freedoms and self will of man, and mankind. In Ayn Rande Novella, Anthem she displays this individual freedom of man, self will, and thought with Equality. Living in a corrupt, dystopian society where, I is We, and individuality is not displayed. The Council of Scholars, are the, “ All Knowing” in this society. But Equality discovers electricity, something the council is ignorant to. In this society it took 20 man to discover the candle, but it took Equality, one man, to discover electricity. The Council is scared of this newfound invention in which Equality has discovered. Since Equalities discovers was not discovered by a collective group such as the way the candle was discovered, the Council do not accept his invention. Through the Novella Equalities perception of his modern Society change. He begins to express his individuality, and question the Society he lives in. Equalitie’s conflict with The Council of Scholars teaches the reader there is no higher power greater than man, because no higher power can conquer man’s individual freedom, thought , or self will. …show more content…

“We have learned things which are not in the scripts.. We have solved secrets of which the Scholars have no knowledge (Rande 36).” Equality is finding things out for himself, which has begotten him to question the society he lives in. He begins to wonder about the, Unmentionable Times, which is the point in their society before society was corrupted. At this point Equality is beginning to show his self will and individual

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