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The Power Of Equality 7-2521 In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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Ever heard of a society that does not have an individual? A society that is completely controlled? The book Anthem by Ayn Rand shows a society without an individual. An Anthem is an uplifting song that is identified by a certain body or cause. Ayn Rand wrote Anthem because she grew up in the Soviet Union, where it was a very communist society where people were supposed to be equal, but she saw that other people were higher above her and she no longer wanted to work for others, she wanted to work for herself. When she came to the United States in 1926 she saw that people in the U.S were taking advantage of the power that they had to choose their own jobs and where they were to live etc. Ayn Rand wrote this book to show how easy it is to choose what people do with their lives. Giving Equality 7-2521 the job of street sweeper was not an error, instead he was given the job of a street sweeper in order to show him that they knew he was different and that they were not going to tolerate it.
Equality 7-2521 is very different than the others in his society, it is easily seen. He is different both …show more content…

The council did not want to give smart people important jobs. This is because they did not want people to be able to take over and change the way that they were running the society. If smart people, or people who had not been brainwashed, got important jobs they could easily show the other members of the society that this was happening and because they were an important political figure, people would listen to them. “We knew we had been guilty, but now we had a way to atone for it.”(26) Equality 7-2521 knows that he is guilty and knows that he got the job of a street sweeper because he has broken laws and sinned against his brothers. The Council gave the job of a street sweeper purposely to Equality 7-2521 because they did not want to give important jobs to smart different

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