Rules And Consequences Of Ayn Rand's Anthem

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The book Anthem by Ayn Rand is a book with many strict rules and consequences. The City was very particular in how they do things. If you lived there, you never made one decision for yourself. They had a set group to decide your job for you and everything else for your life. You was not allowed to say certain things or even talk the way you want. You was not allowed to use ‘I’ or even talk to other certain people. You could not go outside the ‘City’ and you was not even allowed to go into the woods. The main people had to know every place and time you are somewhere. If you did any little thing that was not allowed you was punished majorly. Some of the punishments were a ‘jail’ type thing, even burned alive and even being whipped. I think these exist because the people wanted a ‘perfect’ society. They take the intelligent ones for smart jobs and basically just place the others in not as hard or intelligent jobs. They do not want anyone to be more intelligent than themselves so they will not let others have their own ideas. People are divided in jobs and that is what they do for the rest of their lives on a very strict schedule. The leaders want to be …show more content…

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