'Equality In Ayn Rand's Anthem'

In the book Anthem Equality’s primary motivation for conducting his experiments was to show that he was capable and intelligent enough to be a scholar. Equality is very intelligent and he knows he can help out his brothers and their world in many ways by the things he learned in the tunnel. I also think he is very biased and tired of the world he lives in when he was growing up and the world he lives in today.

He is right to be motivated this way because it is normal for human beings to want to prove themselves and show that they are capable to do something that they believe they are worthy for. In the society that Equality is living in however this is not the case. In Equality’s society the people are not supposed to ask questions or …show more content…
In equalities world he cannot ask any questions or do anything without their government knowing. He wants more people to know of the world outside of theirs that is why when equality found his girlfriend Liberty, he showed her everything he knows and everything he has created like the light bulb. In his experiments he has tried secretly without anyone finding out what he has been doing this whole time. When he is doing his experiments he does not want anyone to know until he found the girl that he fell in love with. The golden one shows him more than anything that he needs to believe and do everything for himself. Most importantly for the future.

Equality is a very vain and self centered person. He believes strongly in individualism and always rejects the society around him. He is a street sweeper and does not like his job, the only part he likes is that he can go around the town and get new things to pick up or use for his next experiments. Equality is very unafraid about of the society around him, he does not care if he goes to jail or gets punished for his experiments if anyone ever finds out about what he does when he is not working as a street