What makes one unique? A personality, look, or even intelligence can be the difference between two individuals. Think of a world where none of that exists and everyone is identical. Ayn Rand creates a perfect picture for that.
In the book, Anthem, Equality’s primary motivation is his desire for individuality. Like every other human-being the challenge of finding who you really are and what your purpose is, is a rather difficult task to complete. After being strained to be someone he’s not and living off of strict rules the aspiration to establish who he really was, was the fire within him to conduct his experiments. Equality’s experiments were a symbol of his developing self. If everyone in the world were to be like Equality and have the same motivation, the world would be a more developed and efficient environment with very confident individuals. In similarity to Lois Lowry’s book The Giver, Ayn Rand establishes a society with uniformity. Lowry’s book refers to what is known as sameness and is a world that’s only black and white. What’s the point of no color? Color expresses one’s personality when both authors are trying to achieve the theme of equality. Everyone is seen the same and in most ways are the same. Going back to Ayn Rand’s writing, the kids attend a school where …show more content…
Even just Equality walking into the room was forbidden, “’A Street Sweeper! A Street Sweeper walking in upon the World Councils of Scholars! It is not to be believed! It is against all the rules and all the laws!’” (page 69). How could a council be so against their people? With all these restricting rules, it was only expected for Equality to rebel. Along with Equality there will be many more to disobey the council’s system. Their rules are not guidelines but a strict way to live life. Equality was never free to be himself and that was his biggest