Anthem Equality Rhetorical Analysis

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The society of Equality 7-2521 is dishonest, and everyone knows nothing about the truth of the past. Equality 7-2521’s ego gets in his way of his own judgement. His perspective blurs his vision and makes his decisions selfish. His ways of individuality are better for the people. The brothers in the corrupt society would be better off if they were not in a collective society but if they were in an individual society, and stood as many instead of one.
Equality admits that he has broken laws, but that does not stop him from writing his knowledge down on paper. “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and put them down upon a paper no others are to see.” (Rand 17). Equality writes sins down upon a paper knowing he …show more content…

He is selfish when he tells the Golden One that they should forget about the society but talk to each other anyway. “There is no danger in solitude. we have no need of our brothers. Let us forget their good and our evil, let us forget all things save that we are together and that there is joy as a bond between us,” (83). By saying this to the Golden One he is suggesting that they should just forget the society and the wrong they have done and just be together. By doing this he can get the Golden One and himself into trouble because of what he wants.
As Equality escapes the corrupt society and makes his way into the uncharted forest he realized that he will live alone because he left the Golden one behind. He claims that he wants to spend his last days alone. As he walks through the uncharted forest he states “We are doomed. Whatever days are left to us, we shall spend them alone” …show more content…

Not only does he do things for the better of his brothers but he does everything for the better of himself. He believes that everything that he has discovered he does not owe it to anyone in the society. “I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any other. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet” (96).
Although Equality 7-2521 vision is blurred by his selfishness, his findings of the unmentionable times is just what his society and brothers need. When Equality finds the old house he finds and learns more about the unmentionable times he says he will build a society and he will pick his friends. “I shall choose my friends among men, but neither slaves or masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and then I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join or hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire” (96).
He wants to have an individual society where everyone is equal and no one has to think for the better of them or their brothers. They do not have to say “we” when they are talking about themselves. They can use “I.” For the word “we” must never be spoken, save by one’s choice and as a second

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