As once said by John F. Kennedy, “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” Anthem by Ayn Rand is a dystopian fiction novel in a future setting where mankind is expected to follow a set of rules as a whole society. Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright and screenwriter. In her novel, Anthem, It shows a way of putting a society as a whole to function the same and think the same way where no one can be independent. One of the main characters was Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000. Equality 7-2521 is described with the pronoun “they” as in not being his own person, as well as the other characters who are also described with the pronoun “they.” He’s strong, independent, and intelligent who ends up falling in love with liberty 5-3000, who he describes as “the golden one.” Even though Equality knows it is a sin to think the way he does, he does it anyway because of his “cursed wish to know.” Equality slowly becomes more independent as he’s falling in love with Liberty 5-3000. Throughout the story, we see Equality’s path to self-discovery and his journey throughout moving away …show more content…
Equality talks about how he desires to discover the world and what makes it, but because of what is expected from the government, it is a sin to even think independently. As read in chapter 1in the novel, “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.” In this, Equality talks about how he is doing something wrong. He tells us how it is a sin to do what he is doing, showing how he’s breaking an important law. Although it may not say it, it shows us right away how he feels about how he has no