Anthem Essay
In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand it tells of a utopian society. Like most Utopian societies, the people in charge do what they think is best for their citizens but often ends up being worse for them. “It is a sin to write this.” Starts anthem but toward the end he makes a moral assessment and changes his mind about the rule. Equality 7-2521 eventual assessment of his sin is correct because his society is very corrupt in many ways, he changed his society giving him a chance to follow his own rules, and he decided he wanted to document his findings in his journal. In the end of the book he and Liberty 5-3000 escaped through the woods. They found a house and lived there. They found a new society and made their own rules. “‘We both knew it without words: this house was left from the Unmentionable Times. The trees had protected it from time and weather, and from men who have less pity than time and weather. We turned to the Golden One and we asked: "Are you afraid?" But they shook their head. So we walked to the door, and we threw it open, and we stepped together into the house of the Unmentionable Times.’” (Part 10 pg.1) Because of his change of residence he had the right to …show more content…
Equality is a very curious boy which can tend to get him in trouble. “Then we knew what we must do. Our discovery is too great for us to waste our time in sweeping the streets. We must not keep our secret to ourselves, nor buried under the ground. We must bring it into the sight of all men. We need all our time, we need the work rooms of the Home of the Scholars, we want the help of our brother Scholars and their wisdom joined to ours. There is so much work ahead for all of us, for all the Scholars of the world.” (Part 5 pg. 1) Equality had discovered electricity and planned on sharing his findings with the Scholars. This is why he decided to write and start journaling his findings. He decided to break the rules in hopes to benefit his