How would you react if someone controlled your entire life? Your job, thoughts, spouse, home, everything! In Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, this is exactly the case. Throughtout the book Equality tests his limits and eventually gets caught. However, he runs away and finds the Uncharted Forest. Equality laughs when he remembers that he is “the damned” because he is now able to be curious and to prefer others.
In Equality’s society the government chooses his life mandate. The government puts more educated people in lower levels of education. He is a street sweeper, but his mind is made for much more. He discovered the lightbulb; he decided to bring it to the attention of the home of the scholars. They were afraid of it and of him, they knew not to be excited for a new invention, that had come from someone that was not from their same home. Everyone in his society, thought of new inventions as a peril. According to chapter 2 of Anthem, “the eyes of the transgressor had chosen us from the crowd and were looking straight upon us” (pg. 51). When the Transgressor was being murdered, …show more content…
However, not in Equality’s, “we were guilty of the great Transgression of Preference”(pg. 22). The Transgression of Preference is when you prefer one person more than another, so anything along having a stronger relationship with one, is against the law. Equality has friends, International 4-8818 and Union 5-3992. He prefers them over his other brothers, however, they do not feel the same because it is the law, and they do not break the rules. In chapter 2, Equality says, “But we think of one among women, they whose name is Liberty 5-3000, and we think of no others”(pg. 38). When Equality sees Liberty, he is immediately attracted to her,and her to him as well. When Equality works, he sees her. They talk some but not much because it is forbidden. This also makes him ”the damned”, because it is against the
In Equality’s society the government chooses his life mandate. The government puts more educated people in lower levels of education. He is a street sweeper, but his mind is made for much more. He discovered the lightbulb; he decided to bring it to the attention of the home of the scholars. They were afraid of it and of him, they knew not to be excited for a new invention, that had come from someone that was not from their same home. Everyone in his society, thought of new inventions as a peril. According to chapter 2 of Anthem, “the eyes of the transgressor had chosen us from the crowd and were looking straight upon us” (pg. 51). When the Transgressor was being murdered, …show more content…
However, not in Equality’s, “we were guilty of the great Transgression of Preference”(pg. 22). The Transgression of Preference is when you prefer one person more than another, so anything along having a stronger relationship with one, is against the law. Equality has friends, International 4-8818 and Union 5-3992. He prefers them over his other brothers, however, they do not feel the same because it is the law, and they do not break the rules. In chapter 2, Equality says, “But we think of one among women, they whose name is Liberty 5-3000, and we think of no others”(pg. 38). When Equality sees Liberty, he is immediately attracted to her,and her to him as well. When Equality works, he sees her. They talk some but not much because it is forbidden. This also makes him ”the damned”, because it is against the