Anthem Essay

1. The rules that Equality adopts his life to be as living in his own home. Equality lives in a home with a hundred other people. Now he lives in his home as a free man and not with other people. “I shall live here, in my own house” (Rand 99). Equality lives his life at a home that is not controlled by a higher power. Equality now instead of having a higher power control his livelihood, he can control his own life and live as a free man.
2. First starting in the novel, men were enslaved by a higher power and not by themselves. The gods, than monarchs, then his confinement, family members, and origins first tyrannized man. “My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal” (Rand 95). The people in Anthem have no experience of being free. These people have been “controlled” by a higher power and have no own self-freedom. Even know they did not know that they were slaves, they had no freedom.
3. The sacred word in the novel Anthem is ego. The scared word is ego because it when people have a self-esteem or self-importance, they would be thinking against society. In Anthem society, everyone thinks the same way and does not go against the norm of society. When someone has an ego, they think that they are better then everyone else in society. “The sacred word: ego” (Rand 105). Every person in society has the right to think and feel a certain way; in Anthem life nobody can experience that.
4. Even though Anthem is set as a futuristic society, it is not really futuristic. The society is different because technology was just starting up. Ayn Rand was portraying a primitive future and not a society based on robots, and jetpacks. The vents make the story more primitive because it talks about windows being the top in...

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...the Council and does not want to oppose them. The role of the martyrdom is that Equality addresses all the martyrs and those who died for individualism and not collectivism. “To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom” (Rand 81).
8. Equality renames himself Prometheus because Equality perceives that he tolerated for all his achievements. Prometheus took light from the gods and fetched them to the citizens, and he educated men to be gods. Equality feels that since he suffered so much in his life, he ought to rename himself after a mythological creature. Equality renames Liberty Gaea. Gaea is the mother of earth and all the gods. Equality believes that Liberty deserves the name Gaea because she is very compassionate and Equality loves her so much. “Let this be your name, my Golden One, for you are to be the mother of a new kind of gods” (Rand 99).