Equality is finally free from his oppressive collectivist society, and he wants to make his own. What will his society be like and why was the city’s society so controlling and strict? The fictional novel Anthem by Ayn Rand gives evidence to how equality will be making his society from experience in his old city. He will not make a society as oppressive as the city but will understand that some control is necessary.
The city has the rules that it has to control and manipulate people to keep everyone powerless. “We have broken the laws. The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven” (Rand 2). Equality is revealing a law that the council has. The Council which is the rules of this city does not allow people to simply write unless permitted too. Also he asks for forgiveness which
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“Here on this mountain, I and my sons and my chosen friends shall build our new land and our fort. And it will become as the heart of the earth, lost and hidden at first, but beating, beating louder each day. And word of it will reach every corner of the earth. And the roads of the world will become as veins which will carry the best of the world's blood to my threshold. And all my brothers, and the Councils of my brothers, will hear of it, but they will be impotent against me. And the day will come when I shall break all the chains of the earth, and raze the cities of the enslaved, and my home will become the capital of a world where each man will be free to exist for his own sake.” (Rand 40) Equality figured out true freedom and the word I. This caused him to want to make his own city. He wants it to be free and allowing of anyone who wants to live in it. Once people escape from the old city and move to his he will realize that there cannot be absolute freedom without chaos. Because of this he will make some laws that protect people and are