Equality Revealed In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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Why the Street Sweeper
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.”― Martin Luther King Jr. Anthem is a novella by Ayn Rand that depicts her view on collectivism. The Protagonist, Equality 7-2521, lives in a society where the world revolves around factions of people working together to make life more enjoyable. With a supposedly more enjoyable life, individuality is not allowed and difference is prohibited. Equality was born with a great sense of intelligence and curiosity that makes him different in the eyes of the council. The Difference is bad, therefor Equality is bad, The Council of Vocations gives Equality the job of Street Sweepers to repent his sins. The council wishes to diminish and hinder the resources Equality has to increase his intellectual and psychological knowledge in order to keep control of their society. …show more content…
Everyone knows “it is not good to be different from our brothers” (21) and equality challenges that statement. One goal the council had in mind while assigning Equality’s job is to degrade his resources so he could not further his education. When one becomes a street sweeper their education will not be continued. This is supposedly going to prohibit Equality from asking questions, researching, and discovering. The council hopes that Equality will abide by the rules and his need to learn will decrease. Equality’s Curiosity burns a little faster when he discovers a place that is forbidden, he will “sit in the tunnel for three hours and study”(35) the want for education is not changed it only increased. The council failed to make equality
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