Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, portrays a totalitarian world of the future that is technologically primitive. A totalitarian government is a political authority that exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life. In this book, Equality 7-2521 and the society he lived in, are controlled by the World Council that uses the most basic forms of technology, such as candles instead of electricity. Enslaved to serve others, they were not allowed independent thinking nor did they have the freedom to choose. Technology progresses when conditions allow for it. Equality attempts to find those conditions through curiosity and discovery, sharing knowledge, freedom of choice, and independent thinking. In Anthem, people were not
