Equality-2521 In Ayn Rand's Anthem

In the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand the character Equality 7-2521 differs from the people he is surrounded by because he does not want to live his life by rules that are set by the government, also he wants to learn about subjects he is interested in. Although it is a sin for street sweepers to learn about anything he has a special gift of understanding his school work although street sweepers are supposed to be unintelligent. In Ayn Rand’s Anthem Equality is different from his brothers because he wants to be his own person by doing things that interest him, while Equality is trying to live his life without following the rules he finds that he does not want to be a street sweeper and wants to learn about science and other things that interest him, this leads to Equality having confidence in what he believed and having a high ego.
Equality first shows his alienation by having confidence in himself by going to the World Council of Scholars to show them his creation of a new light source. “We are old now, yet we were young this morning, when we carried our glass box through the streets of the City to the home Home of the Scholars. (68)” The quote shows that Equality is confident to go to a place where he is forbidden to do so and he is confident to show the Scholars an invention, although it is a sin for a street …show more content…
Throughout the book Equality grew from a normal person to being a strong leader wanting everyone to be free and to do what interested themselve. Ayn Rand’s main purpose to write this book was to show that there are people that will stand up for what they believe and they will want to be different than others. Anthem can be tied to some Universal themes or truths because there are some countries that do not believe in equality and want a different type of genders to be higher than