Lack Of Ego In Ayn Rand's Anthem

The book, Anthem, is about a twenty year old male, who is six feet tall and named Equality 7-2521. His society that he lives in has made him feel as if he was different and being different is the worst transgression to commit. The saying "Curiosity killed the cat", was almost the fate for Equality in this novella and his ego saved him from this tragedy. Equality has always felt like the black sheep in his society and ego plays a huge role as to why he feels this way, throughout the book it is shown through the lack of ego in his society, as well as equality coming more in touch with his egotistical side, and lastly the word "I" becoming more understood.
In the society he lives in there is a lack of ego. In the society they control every aspect of your life. The society chooses the name they are give, their job, where they live, their parents and a strict education where you can not be a free thinker. The society also controls you through your emotions, especially fear. Fear has kept everyone in line because if they were to speak out they would be publicly executed. Equality at ten years old saw a man burned alive in the square if the city.
Throughout Equality's journey in this book he began to become more in touch with his egotistical side. One way this is portrayed is when Equality prefers Liberty over …show more content…
In previous chapters, Liberty was trying to express her fondness for Equality but she didn't know how to. This significant because before she would say we love you. However, that is not what she was trying to say and it didn't come out how she wanted to express herself. She meant that only she herself loved home alone and only him and the word I helped her express that. After having more of an understanding of I Equality despises the word we. He talks about how to be finally free is to be free of his brothers. Once he found the meaning of I he left his old society and began to think for