He has denounced everything he has ever known. Impeached the contrivance of his leaders to show his brothers the life they deserve to have. In the story, Anthem by Ayn Rand, it illustrates the strong character, Equality. Equality declaims the leaders of his society “The Council” due to their concealing and cruel ways. Living in a loveless, dark age in the future, he found himself alone. Feeling alone, being what his society would call an “unpardonable sin” because he differed from his mindless brothers. In Anthem by Ayn Rand, “The laws say that none among men may be alone,ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression and the root of all evil”(17). His brothers are always cowering in fear and sadness, making one know Equality was not only doing what was best, but what was best for his brothers, his community, thus even the world.
Although Equality denouncing his leader can throw off the balance and scare citizens of his community with shock, if he hadn’t taken a stand his brothers would have continued to be depressed. His brothers are depressed due to being unfairly placed into …show more content…
In this society, it is “the transgression of preference” to like any more than the rest of their brothers/sisters. They are not allowed to speak to people with different trades/jobs. Yet Equality meets a woman named Liberty five-3000 who is a peasant girl and immediately is infatuated with her even while knowing it’s wrong. They talk whenever they see each other in secret because of the consequences of this transgression. He later names her “The Golden One” because she is not like the others. Equality believe you should be allowed to love who you want. He realizes he would go against the council for Liberty, for he did not want her to be randomly assigned to another man for mating. As a result, he felt hatred towards the council’s loveless