The Theme Of Morality In Anthem, By Ayn Rand

What is morality? Morality is the principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. Next there is this person named Equality, he lives in a crooked society. His society’s view of morality is that everyone is basically family and everyone is completely equal. In his society, men and women should not speak or think of each other. Also the men are not allowed to write anything unless the council of Vocations bids them so. Also there are some major differences between his views and his society’s views of morality. Where as Equality’s view of morality is where everyone lives for themselves, and where everyone is different. He believes that happiness is it’s own goal, and that people should be able to choose who their friends are. Also that you can respect them but not command or obey them. Basically his view of morality is the complete opposite of his society’s. In Ayn Rand’s excerpts I think that what she is trying to say is that the way that we as humans are and always will be is we can be selfish in all kinds of ways. Such as when she says “selfishness” is a synonym of evil; the image it conjures is of a murderous brute who tramples over piles of corpses to achieve his own ends, who cares for no living being and pursues nothing …show more content…
But at the same time, selfishness is not the only evil in the world, because a man’s ego is also the next greatest evils. Then when Ayn Rand says “Only a brute or an altruist would claim that the appreciation of another person’s virtue is an act of selflessness, that as far as one’s own selfish interest and pleasure are concerned, it makes no difference whether one deals with a genius or a fool, whether one meets a hero or a thug, whether one marries an ideal woman or a slut.” She is describing the way selfish and non selfish people would see things and