Anthem Essay Topic 1
Equality’s prime motive on sharing his invention was not to improve the world but for egotistic reasons. Equality wanted to become a scholar more than anything and prove himself to the council that he doesn’t belong with the other street sweepers. His motives were wrong, yet had good qualities to them but he should have been doing it to further the success of humankind instead of boasting on himself. If everyone in the world acted as Equality did, then then the world would be much more advanced but everyone would be selfish and wanting to further his or her own success instead of the worlds.
In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality knows he is smart enough to be more than a street sweeper, so he develops an invention that could assist humankind so heavily, and he knows it will, but Equality also knows that that is not his prime motive. Equality thinks that his vocation should have been a scholar, not a street sweeper, so when he finds the electricity in the frogs leg he knew he could invent something pronounce that would impress the scholars. Equality knew this invention would further the …show more content…
His invention could further mankind greatly so putting his intentions aside it was a great feat in technology. His motives were not exactly respectable but they were not bad either. He did it out of trying to make himself better, which can be right or wrong because it builds self-esteem but also shows selfishness. Therefore, his main motive was not decent, being that it was selfish but it had worthy qualities including building his own self-esteem, which some people could benefit from. His main motives were wrong in the sense that he wanted to do it out of boasting on himself but, a little self-pride isn’t so bad since he was doing it to boost his self-esteem to prove he could be a on the Council of Scholars and deserved it just as much as the men who were already on
Equality’s prime motive on sharing his invention was not to improve the world but for egotistic reasons. Equality wanted to become a scholar more than anything and prove himself to the council that he doesn’t belong with the other street sweepers. His motives were wrong, yet had good qualities to them but he should have been doing it to further the success of humankind instead of boasting on himself. If everyone in the world acted as Equality did, then then the world would be much more advanced but everyone would be selfish and wanting to further his or her own success instead of the worlds.
In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality knows he is smart enough to be more than a street sweeper, so he develops an invention that could assist humankind so heavily, and he knows it will, but Equality also knows that that is not his prime motive. Equality thinks that his vocation should have been a scholar, not a street sweeper, so when he finds the electricity in the frogs leg he knew he could invent something pronounce that would impress the scholars. Equality knew this invention would further the …show more content…
His invention could further mankind greatly so putting his intentions aside it was a great feat in technology. His motives were not exactly respectable but they were not bad either. He did it out of trying to make himself better, which can be right or wrong because it builds self-esteem but also shows selfishness. Therefore, his main motive was not decent, being that it was selfish but it had worthy qualities including building his own self-esteem, which some people could benefit from. His main motives were wrong in the sense that he wanted to do it out of boasting on himself but, a little self-pride isn’t so bad since he was doing it to boost his self-esteem to prove he could be a on the Council of Scholars and deserved it just as much as the men who were already on