Ayn Rand's Anthem Essay: Individual Vs. Society

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To start out with, In this essay, the topics cover Individuality, comparing the book to the real world, selfishness, differences from the society in the book and the society in the real world, strict rules in the book and in real life, people would break more laws if they lived in the same society as the book. By worshiping the word e in the novel, Equality believes that the leaders would lose their power. Equality thinks that he can finally be free when he goes into the Forbidden Forest. Equality also feels that when he is alone, then he can be his own self. In our society, for instance, people have to go to work and work with other people. Some people in our society have to follow the rules and do as their boss says. Then again, you could …show more content…
No one loves someone more than anyone else. All of these are laws, and there is so much more in the book. If people were to break any of the laws, then they were to be punished. They could do something that doesn't even seem bad, but in their society, it seems as if everything is bad and no one can just be their own self. We take no heed of the law which says that men may not think of women, save at the time of mating. This is the time each spring when all the men older than twenty and all the women older than eighteen are sent for one night to the City Palace of Mating. And each of the men has one of the women assigned to them by the Council of Eugenics. Children are born each winter, but women never see their children and children never know their parents. Rand 43) In the real world, anyone can mate with whoever they want and they don't get assigned someone to mate with. The book talks about all men over the age of twenty and all the women over the age of eighteen get sent to the Palace of Mating, and they get assigned someone to mate with. They are not married and they don't even know each