Likewise, a sensational figure of individualistic prowess would be the most popular advocate of racial equity himself, Martin Luther King Jr. King was a noble man, organizing civil right boycotts as early as Rosa Park’s seat incident; his influence on racial prejudice was remarkably significant, as a result the government retaliated by arresting …show more content…
Likewise, Equality 7-2521, later renamed as Prometheus, increasingly develops a firm belief in the eminence of individuals rather than a group, discovered his self-worth and perceived his physical and mental superiority compared to his brothers as the story progressed. With his innovated aptitude, he inevitably discovered electricity by only utilizing scraps of metals most likely from the Unmentionable Times; unfortunately, his optimistic and inventive mindset as well as his invention are threatened and rejected by the Council of Scholars mainly because they feared it would arouse curiosity in the Unmentionable Times and would cause revolts and doubt in the credibility of the laws. In like manner, Rand indirectly communicated her firm belief in the maliciousness of collectivity and group work and its negative effects on society. We see Equality’s efforts to make the world a better place repressed by the rest of society’s close-mindedness. Additionally, Rand seems to believe the only antidote to this dilemma is for the distinguished individual to fend for himself rather than society as a whole. Similarly, Equality reaches the same conclusion at the end of the book and proposes a new objective: to resurrect an individualistic type society from the Unmentionable Times. In other words, Rand presumed an accurate claim, collectivism only