Anglo-Algerian author, Mouloud Benzadi describes “true happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action, but through love, modesty, and self-satisfaction.” While happiness can be achieved through materialistic things, Benzadi, along with Ray Bradbury and Ayn Rand, agrees that not all things can bring true happiness to life. Similarly to Benzadi’s idea, the novels Fahrenheit 451 and the novella Anthem, by authors Bradbury and Rand, display that to reach a high level of satisfaction, one must have a desire for knowledge, freedom to express individuality, and a desire to belong. Once these are accomplished, true happiness can be achieved. The hunger for the unknown of knowledge often creates satisfaction through. For example, in …show more content…
On a hunt to learn more about the world, Equality discovers electricity, causing him to wonder if “the secrets of [the] world are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek [it]” (Rand 52). While society has regressed, the government has decided to hide away its past, allowing others to get curious. Once Equality knows the truth, he becomes overjoyed about the knowledge he learns and how it has helped him. In comparison to the burning woman, talking to Captain Beatty, and uncovering knowledge of the past, these events show the significance of knowledge affecting happiness. The freedom to express individualism is also fundamental to making a human happy. Equality 7-2521 struggles with his identity, as he has grown up in a society where there is no ‘I’, only the Great ‘WE’. He understands that “centuries and chains” cannot “kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within [mankind]” (98). Equality knows that centuries that have been buried by society will not keep him from becoming an individual. He believes nothing can kill the spirit of man and will not stop them from finding the