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Analysis Of Anthem, By Ayn Rand

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What do you think it would be like to live with a society with rules after rules and now freedom? Equality-752521 and Liberty 53000 were filled with the most outrageous rules to hold back their societies from collectivism. In Equality’s society they were raised just like ant because they did as they were told and the leaders did not want them to do otherwise. Therefore Equality did not want to be apart of that he wanted to make new things and change old ways.
Anthem, by Ayn Rand is a very special science fiction novel. The novel involves a dystopian society that does as they are told but they do not know what would happen to them if they did not obey the rules set. Anthem also uses a lot of first person plural “We” and not the first person

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