Compassion and sympathetic feelings are one thing, but empathy is another. Empathy is when you put yourself in someone’s circumstances and experience what the other person is feeling. In Ayn Rand’s novel, Anthem, empathy is demonstrated by the author by introducing the readers to Equality 7-2521’s life. Equality 7-2521 experiences empathy throughout the novel by wanting others to have an easier way of life, when he contemplates about the world, and when he realizes the synonymous suffering many others have encountered. First, Equality 7-2521 experiences empathy because he wants the lives of others to be easier and more pleasant. The text states, “And we sighed as if a burden had been taken from us, for we had been thinking without the reason