Humans are incomprehensible creatures that tend to have a natural inclination to want to learn new things. It is the same case in Anthem, a book written by Ayn Rand, which is about a boy named Equality 7-2521 who lives in a society where he must think of only his brothers, but he does not. Equality is motivated to conduct his experiments by curiosity and desire for knowledge, which is a magnificent way to be motivated because if everyone obtained the same motivation, the world would have a society thriving in knowledge. Firstly, Equality's motivation to conduct his experiments comes from his desire for knowledge and his curiosity. It is evident that Equality's primary motivation is his desire to learn new things because he stole manuscripts from the Home of Scholars and he says that “. . . in these two years we have learned more than we had learned in the ten years of the Home of the Students.” (Rand, 36). If humans did not have a desire for knowledge, they would …show more content…
Equality describes his curse as “. . . there is no will in us and no power to resist it.” (18), which means that he cannot resist his curiosity. In other words, curiosity is a natural inclination, and all humans are born with curiosity. Equality says that the House of Scholars “. . . said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are no known by all do not exist.” (52). Essentially, there is no knowledge advancement in Equality's society, and by him being curious and desiring knowledge, he discovered new things. Overall, it is good for Equality to be motivated in such a way because it is human nature to be curious and it brought new knowledge unknown to him and his brothers. The world's society would be prospering in knowledge if everyone in the world had the same motivation as