In a strongly dictatorial community, one finding success through personal identity was strenuous but proven possible. Rand provided a message of distinctiveness and individuality in Anthem, where motive and going above one’s believed and allowed abilities accomplishes true freedom, colliding selflessness and selfishness. This society convinced those living in it that the only way they will survive was to feed off of the minds of others, which was explained in The Soul of An Individualist. The promotion of altruism in this society created a challenge for those who allowed their own vision to advance ahead of what they have been trained to believe, but Prometheus proved it possible to challenge rules as harsh as death for going against collectivism.
It is one threat to society to understand and think about going against the law, but allowing oneself to act upon those thoughts is straining and extremely unacceptable. Prometheus had a compelling motive pushing him …show more content…
He had admired the House of Scholars and wished to be included because of his remarkable curiosity and will to learn, although eventually looked down upon by them as he presented his outstanding ideas. He accepted their disbelief and wish to humiliate and kill him, while previously surviving lashing as a consequence for working on his accomplishment of a glass box, yet he kept working to achieve more intelligence. His defiance of law was due to both selfishness yet selflessness; although the society encourages selflessness in the first place, he risked his own life to discover pieces of the past and recompose them, while he was selfish, especially in the eyes of the society, for becoming one on his own away from the work of others. A