“To prefer evil to good is not human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils no one will choose the greater when he might have the less”-Plato. Each person in the world is born with their own unique personality that no one else can change or take away. In Anthem, Ayn Rand demonstrates how it is impossible to deny a person of their nature, no matter what the cost is. In this story independence is denied, but not broken. Individuality is masked, but still shines through. Freedom is lost, but finds a way back.

Equality 7-2521, another young adult trapped in a society where no one is better than the other; they cannot depend on themselves. Equality has an independent mind. When Equality was finishing his job with International 4-8818, they come …show more content…
Equality achieves freedom in many ways. Throughout the story, you can tell Equality has a feeling of being free; he has an instinct. He uses his newfound tunnel as an escape. The tunnel gives him his own personal freedom. When Equality leaves his society, he breaks through this imaginative barrier. The barrier of depression, fear, and negativity. Equality is free, but believes his damned. Equality’s human nature, his instinct, brought him to the uncharted forest. “We knew not where we were going. We knew only that we must run, run to the end of the world, to the end of our days.” (Chapter 7) It is not possible that Equality had this plan in mind; his body brought him there.

Anthem by Ayn Rand perfectly displays how you can still teach an old dog new tricks. It doesn’t matter if Equality was never introduced to Freedom, Individuality, or Independence; nothing can defeat human nature. When you teach someone bad habits, there is no guarantee that they won’t think about the good that they could be doing. In this story, when you put a group of people in negative it shows that at least one person will find something positive in the