Ayn Rand's Anthem Analysis

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Without freedom in a society, it will not change. When a society lacks freedom the people in it can not express themselves. Creativity and individuality are key parts for people to express themselves and make them unique. This is represented in Anthem by Ayn Rand, this novel is about a man who is stuck in a dystopian society that isolates himself and his ideas and he ends up getting punished for it. When people in a dystopian society are exposed to changes, they get scared. In the society that Equality 7-2521 lives in nobody has freedom. When Equality 7-2521 stayed down in the train tunnel working on his lightbulb for too long he was punished, “‘Take our brother Equality 7-2521 to the Parlor of Corrective Detention. Lash him until they tell.’ … We lay in our cell for many days” (Rand 66). What they do not know is that he was underground working on something secret, the fact that he has to express himself in a hidden place proves that there is no freedom and individuality. They tried to force information out of him showing …show more content…
Equality 7-2521 created an invention and it was new to his society but was not accepted,
We placed our glass box upon the table upon them. We spoke of it, and of our long quest and of our tunnel, and of our escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention. Not a hand moved in that hall, as we spoke, nor an eye. Then we put the wires to the box, and they all bent forward and sat still, watching. And we stood still, our eyes upon the wire. And slowly, slowly as the flush of blood, a red flame trembled from the wire. Then the wire glowed. … ‘You shall be burned at stake,’ … ‘No, they shall be lashed’ (Rand 70-72).
All he did was invent a new light which would benefit the society. He was being creative and he wanted to express himself, and he could be put to death. The one time someone in this society tried to be creative and show this to the higher people, they got rejected and

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