In the beginning Equality views his transgressions as evil, but later that all will change. By the end of the novel Equality has a different moral assessment, he begins to see his sins as noble. This view on his sins are correct. From the start Equality knew that he was sinning. Everything that he was doing was wrong and unjust. He believed all this because of the way he was raised. He was lead to believe that the Council was always right, that they knew everything that there was to know. “The Teachers were just, for they had been appointed by the Councils, and the Councils are the voice of all justice, for they are the voice of all men” (22). During Equality upbringing he had to believe that everything that the Teachers, Councils, and Scholars said was true. Thus molding his moral assessments and making him view them as evil. “For the Council of Vocations knows in its great wisdom where you are needed by your brother men, better than you can know it in your unworthy little minds.” Equality was raised and was taught to live by the word “WE”, he was told anything done for one’s self was evil. He was supposed to live for his brothers to conform to the society without any questions. This lead Equality to believe that anything done for himself was evil. Causing him to commit many transgressions during his time in the Anthem society. After his discovery in the tunnel this able began to …show more content…
They point in but one direction. They point to me” (95). When he understands the fact that he is the only thing that can tell him where to go, and what path to take. When he comprehends that fate lies in the hands of the beholder. There is nothing that could ever take that away from someone. Only I can be my own guiding star and nobody else. When it comes down to the last second of the day as a beholder of my fate I was the one who made the ultimate decision, as one