In 1937, The Author Ayn Rand wrote the novel Anthem to illustrate how different the world would be without individualism. In Anthem, there is no such thing as I but only we, except when Equality 7-2521 rediscovers the forbidden that is when everything is jeopardized. In Anthem the city has numerous rules and controls to keep its citizens in order or in line.
Ayn Rand’s Anthem is the story of a man’s personal growth and quest for freedom from the rules and regulations in the society, which he lived. As the novel’s main character, Equality struggles to find meaning in his life and to understand his own unique nature. As he gains independence and freedom, Equality also discovers the beauty of the power of his mind. By the end of the novel, Equality has become a true man, proud, fearless, cheerful, and independent. He has also learned the wickedness of his society and in addition to rejecting them. In following Equality on his quest to find himself, Anthem illustrates the wrongs of collectivism
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One night he discovers an opening in the ground left from the ancient times of which he is forbidden to speak, “when men knew the secrets we have lost.” Equality begins to sneak away from his daily tasks to sit and think, and it is in this opening that he discovers the great secret of electricity. Equality decides to show the “box of glass” he has created to the World Council of Scholars, but when he presents this new Innovation to the scholars, they scold him, their ignorance and strictness. He flees to the dense woods that surround the city, accompanied by his glass box and by Liberty 5-3000. In the forest, Liberty and Equality come upon a house from the Unspeakable Times? an apartment building. Here, Equality plans to build a “new land and a new fort,” creating a new society that will not follow the rules and restrictions of the