When one looks at Equality’s character, they see intelligence, determination, inquisitiveness, and creativity. All of these are qualities of a true scholar in our society. However, in Anthem’s society, this is not the case. The reader does not exactly know how the Council of Vocations decides who receives what job. They don’t base the decision off of the people’s strengths and that makes the reader stop and think “are they really that ignorant?”
When the Council assigns Equality as a street sweeper, this assignment comes across as a major shock to him and to the reader. One would expect him to be assigned to the House of Scholars. Equality was thinking that the Council messed up and assigned him the wrong vocation. The Council of Vocations assigned him street sweeper because in this society, everyone and everything has to be equal, no one can be better than anyone. On page 29, it mentions how International 4-8818 is different, just like Equality. International is an amazing artist and yet he was assigned as a street sweeper. This action of the Council of Vocations was most definitely not a fluke.…show more content… If the Council had assigned the right vocations to the right people, their society would be a whole lot better. Unfortunately, most of the scholars in this society aren’t actually intelligent, creative, quisitive, or determined. If they truly want the best of the society, they would assign the right vocations to the right people. Rand makes the reader stop again and think “why would the leaders of this society not assign the right vocations for the right
