Analysis Of Anthem By Ayn Rand

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“It is a sin to write this” So begins Anthem. Throughout the book, Ayn Rand tells of a society that frowns upon a lot of things. One of these things is being able to think for yourself. Another thing that this society dislikes is people being smarter than the ones who are supposed to know these things. Equality 7-2521 demonstrates almost exactly what is frowned upon there. As the story goes on, and until the end, he grows as a person and goes against all the rules that were set up for people to follow. In the beginning things were very simple for him, listen to the council and do what is told to you. Equality says that he sins by not only writing down what he thinks, but also by doing what comes to his brain. He sees things and tries …show more content…
Every want he has, every desire, every feeling or thought, is all a part of something that is normal. All of this that he thinks or feels is a part of the human nature. I do believe that Equality’s later assessment of his sin is correct. That had not control of this, it was just his want of a normal human. He realizes, that after reading books from thousands of years ago (today in age), that everything was a horrible set up told by the council. “I wept in deliverance and in pity for all mankind” (98). He does this as he realizes that people long ago had done the same thing, except it was called something different. He saw that this word that was used for it was something very scarce word in the society that Liberty and he lived in before, Ego. Throughout the book Equality has shown characteristics that show he is different. “We wished to know about all the things which make the earth around us” (23). As this quote tells us Equality has always wanted to know more than what they are taught in school. He has told us that though everything that he has been through he still wants to know more about things. All his life he has been told that what he wanted to do was sin, to know more than the scholars, to have your own thoughts, to have an …show more content…
His assessment was very true, people are an individual, but others still try to control that. In this book it tells the struggles that humans have because they are being controlled by a government that thinks it is better to control people than to let them be their own being. People in this society grow up thinking that there is no other way to do things, but once Equality and Liberty leave they see a whole different world than what they are used to. Humans have always thought on their own, whether it’s in what they do, how they act, or how they think. This book show what it would be like if we never got that right, to have an ego, to be an
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