Ayn Rand's 'A Personal Review Of Prometheus'

Finding Who I Am Prometheus has always felt different. He knew that society never favored him (Simple). He was always an outcast because of his “curse”. However, he knew something just didn’t feel right. All his life he has felt no guilt in his “sins”. “What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?” (36). But he will soon find who he is and why his society pins him as a “sinful man” (Compound). From the moment Equality was born, he was taught to refer to himself as “we”. However, Equality’s society was also taught to think this way. For many years, people have been under the control of the Council of Vocations. “We have broken the laws. The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!”(1). The Council of Vocation was craven by its society (Simple). So when Equality
He left his adversaries wondering where he went. Along the way, Equality finds a stream nearby (Complex). “We knelt by the stream and we bent down to drink. And then we stopped. For, upon the blue of the sky below us, we saw our own face for the first time.” (27). At that moment, Equality realizes that he now knows the feeling of being free, and then he looks down at the water and sees his face for the first time (Compound-Complex). He is astonished by what he sees and admires himself. Then, from the shadows of the forest, comes Liberty. Liberty had heard that Equality had fled into the Uncharted Forest and decided to follow him (Compound). They both travel deeper into the forest until they stumble upon what would be Equalities biggest realization