This section contains 853 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
Equality 7-2521 in Ayn Rand's Anthem
Summary: An overview of the character Equality 7-2521 in Ayn Rand's novel Anthem, a young man who lived in a world of numerous rules and controls.
In the book, Anthem, by Ayn Rand, she tells of a young man named Equality 7-2521 who lived in a world of numerous rules and controls. Because of this, Equality would still away every night to a tunnel to write down his thoughts and feeling. Freedom, in any form was not a part of this society. He lived in the “Home of Students” for boys. His name is written on an iron bracelet on his left wrist. He was six feet tall and smart, which caused him problems with the other boys at the home and his teachers. When he was ten years old, he saw a man burned alive in the town square because he used the Unspeakable Word, the word “I”. Because people in his society were not allowed to think on an individual level, they could not use the word “I”. Using “I” was the...
This section contains 853 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |