Anthem is about Equality 7-2521’s struggle to be in individual in a society that’s bans and punishes individuality. The story starts with Equality telling us about his early life, saying that he always struggled in school because he was taller than his brothers and was always curious about the world around him, which are all looked down upon in their society. Early on, Equality also had dreams of being a scholar because he’d be able to explore the world around him and further fuel his creativity, but instead, the Council of Vocations sent him to be a street sweeper, stemming as a punishment for being so different. Equality then finds a friend in International 4-8818 and falls in love with Liberty 5-3000, both of which are forbidden by their oppressive rulers. …show more content…
Equality is then found out to have snuck out to go to the tunnel and is sent to the Palace of Corrective Detention to be punished. He later escapes and decides to take his invention, electricity, to the World Council. When he gets to the World Council, they refuse to accept his invention and want to punish him for thinking he is greater than his fellow citizens. Equality final gets feed up the tyrannical government and flees to the forest outside the city. Liberty 5-3000 goes with him and the two of them find a home, give each other real names (Prometheus and Gaea), and decide to start a new society together with some other people they plan to get from their previous society. The story’s plot is built on the idea that collectivism and collectivist ideas are overbearing and oppressive. The author, Ayn Rand, does this by showing how Equality and his freedom and squashed by all the rules and regulations the collectivist government pleases on its