The Greatest Invention In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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Have you read the amazing and inspiring story “Anthem” by Ayn Rand. Read this essay so you can learn about Equality aka The Unconquerable. In this essay I am going to talk about the invention that Equality had created, his greatest invention. Then I am going to talk about his main primary motivation into making his invention. Next I will talk about if it is right for him to be motivated this way. Last I will talk about if everyone one else was motivated the same way. Let’s jump right into this essay. The Invention that Equality (The Unconquerable, Prometheus) had created is probably one of the greatest or the greatest invention ever created. The Light Bulb-Electricity. This is the greatest invention in my opinion because if the world did …show more content…
Some people that change their motivation to this one could make them not listen to anybody or do the other work they have to do especially if you are in school. The motivation can get people if trouble if they go to the extreme do their plan they can do something bad and get in really bad trouble with the law or with school. If everybody had the same motivation as Equality had the world would have a lot of new inventions that no one had never thought of before and would make this world great. Their would be a lot of people who are making our world better and more creative if they all had the same motivation for being something different. People would start to do anything to make the new invention. When Equality would sneak out of blank, and really boring house to go to his abandoned, and dark tunnel, to work on his beautiful and really handy invention to impress the council. People will do the same thing as Equality to do whatever they need to do to make their invention.
In this essay I talked about Equality’s invention and how it will change the world. I talked about his main motivation to making his invention. I also talked about why it was right for him to be motivated in this way. Then I explained my reasons. Then finally I finished it by talking about what the world be like if they all had the same motivation. I really hope that you enjoyed looking at this magnificent essay about Equality’s main

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