The Character Of Equality 7-2521 In Ayn Rand's Anthem

¨We do not wonder at this new sin of ours. It is our second transgression of Preference, for we do not think of all our brothers, as we must, but only of one, and their name is Liberty 5-300. We do not know why we think of them” (Rand 41). In Ayn Randś dystopian novel, Anthem, the citizens are forced to think that they cannot have any preference, this includes liking someone more than others. Randś protagonist, Equality 7-2521, started the book falling in love with the Golden One, but as he moves toward individuality he begins to be in “love” less as he realizes there’s more than just being in a group. Rand uses the the relationship between Equality and the Golden One to represent Equality’s journey from being obsessed with the Golden One when he feels he has to be apart of the group, to being ignorant to the Golden One because he has become utterly independent and selfish.

When one is confined to society and held captive against their ego, it is imperative that they learn to eulogize their own individuality, and learn to improve themselves. In Ayn Rand’s novella, Anthem, Rand uses Equality 7-2521 to communicate the importance of the individual. Equality has always had his own sense of individuality that causes him to stand out and defy the social norms. His individuality allows him to persevere and diverge from collectivist society.

In Ayn Rand's story Anthem, the protagonist Equality 7-2521 has a power unlike no other within their collectivist society. One day when Equality was working as a street sweeper, he finds an old abandoned underground railroad tunnel from the Unmentionable Times long ago. This is where he conducts his experiments that fill him with pride and joy. Equality dreams how his new invention that he brought into existence can change the world, but helping mankind is not his true motivation behind his passion to create. Throughout the story, Equality's true motivation is him trying to find his inner self and his identity as an individual.

He then sins and continues to do so as he builds an invention. He also even sins and talks to Liberty ( The Golden One) and realizes he ‘loves’ her and then makes conversation. He knows he is sinning so he keeps it a secret to the day the scholars come around to get inventions from the intelligent group. Equality shows them his invention, which is forbidden. He then runs into the Uncharted forest to be free. He and Liberty are finally free in the forest together. They find a house in the forest and live there. Equality finds all kinds of books that tell how they use to be, they used ‘I’ and communicated. He noticed the whole house belonged to only two people, not shared by a whole group. He read about how the living was so free and

Prompt: Explain the following quote: “To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.” How does this quote exemplify a theme of Anthem?

Ayn Rand’s Anthem starts by Equality 7-2521 saying “It is a sin to write this.”

The book Anthem was written by Ayn Rand is a Science Fiction Book. This Science Fiction book would be unknown since the Author didn’t exactly give the time in the book. In the book Anthem there wasn’t any clues or hints that it took place in 1900’s or the 2000’s. Ayn Rand is a Russian-American novelist and she is known for writing books. During the High school years, she was a eyewitness Kerensky Revolution which she had supported.

Intelligence. Something that Equality 7-2521 has a great deal of. Ayn Rand, the author of Anthem, suggests that Equality 7-2521 knows that he is too intelligent to be a street sweeper, and he tries to prove his intelligence through his experiments so he can be “willed” into the Home of the Scholars. She shows this through his time in the Home of the Students when Equality is punished for his quick head, his love for learning, and the idea of learning, and when he escapes to the tunnel to work on his invention.

What makes one person different from another? Is it height, weight, and color of skin, or is it personality, family, and attitude? These differences can define a person and separate them from those around them. These differences make a person an individual; however, in Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem, Equality 7-521 is anything but an individual. He spends his days sweeping the streets and his nights sleeping in a white room with ninety-nine of his brothers. He is not allowed to be alone, to be creative or to think an independent thought. He and his brothers do not even know the word ‘I’, so they simply refer to themself as ‘we’. In Rand’s story, Equality 7-521 is only able to free himself from collectivism and grow as a person when he begins to

In the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand, she characterizes Equality 7-2521 as a brother living in a Dystopian society. Equality shares his traits and his belief on the transgression that he holds. Collectivism makes him portray a different way towards the rest of the society. He exhibits curiosity, intelligence and loneliness so the reader can identify Equality as a symbolic figure in the novel. This is what outcasts him from the rest of his brothers mentally and physically.

In Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem, Equality 7-2521 rediscovers electricity. In the collectivist society Equality lives in, it is illegal to conduct such experiments. Knowing his transgressions, what is his motivation for his experiments? Is he right to be motivated in that way? How would the world change if everyone was motivated as Equality was?

What do you think nature is and how can it contribute to society, and how people feel about it? So far -in the book Anthem- I’ve wondered about this question. In this book there are many ways that nature can make people feel. Also, there’s this character -Equality 7-2521- that at one point got exiled from society and ran to the forest. There’s many reasons in my opinion why he would do this. Society and nature are very big aspects in this book. A lot revolves around these two topics. So the significance of nature in Anthem has many meanings throughout the book. From society being scared of it, how it was uncharted because of that, and also how someone like Equality 7-2521 thrived and became a different and stronger person from being alone in nature.

Within a chess game, there is a king, a queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights and eight pawns. Throughout the game of chess, all of the pieces are required to help the king achieve checkmate. Those pieces, excluding the king, are sacrificed during the game for the king to gain victory. In Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless has gone on a journey to Alaska. He has met various people who assisted him throughout the way, including helping him find information or giving him a ride. As McCandless moves from place to place, he leaves behind those he met to continue his journey into the wilderness. In a sense, McCandless has been the king of his own chess game while those around him were his pawns. His chess game was different did not end up in victory because he has allowed his ideals to get ahead of him, causing his demise. Chris McCandless has a radiance of Transcendental properties through his actions and being.

“It is a sin to write this,” (Rand 1) said Equality 7-2521. In the story Anthem the main character, Equality, lived trapped in a world of equals and look-alikes, where writing and working alone was forbidden. To break through this curse of sameness Equality found alone time to start up a new invention that would help mankind greatly. It was the creation of electric light. Even though Equality was enhanced by his new invention of light this was not his primary motivation, suggesting that the want to learn was only to benefit himself. First, Equality showed that the power of selfishness and individuality could do great things if one believes. For example, giving the evil, Street Sweeper (Equality) the courage to break the Council’s rules and

Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000 find their freedom in the Uncharted Forest. They came onto a house in the middle of the forest from the Unmentionable Times where they are able to live their lives the way that they want to without anyone criticizing them. Equality is denouncing the leaders of his society when he says, “But I am done with this creed of corruption. I am done with the monster of ‘We,’ the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame. And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: ‘I.’” (Rand, Anthem 97). Equality is proclaiming that he no longer believes in having an entire society equal. Everyone in a society needs to be different by being themselves and protecting their rights and morals. By doing this everyone can find freedom from a society. Rand’s statement, “Nothing can corrupt and disintegrate a culture or a man’s character as thoroughly as does the precept of moral agnosticism, the idea that one must never pass moral judgement on others, that one must be morally tolerant of anything, that the good consists of never distinguishing good from evil” shows that if citizens want to find freedom it is competent to judge because then one is emphasizing the differences between citizens (Rand, “How” 82). Equality and Rand found