Other Books by the same author: The Virtue of Selfishness, For the new intellectual, Atlas Shrugged, Fountain Head.
Main Characters: Equality 7-2521 a.k.a. Prometheus, Liberty 5-3000, World Council.
Brief Summary of Contents:.
The Anthem is a scroll of prophecies, a glimpse into a future progressed from our holy modern values of collectivism. As always, a hero is present or more appropriately, should I say, ONE hero. Their name is Equality 7-2521, their purpose is to server the great "WE", their payment is the allowance to life, the pronoun I or his' does not exist in this future dark age. Equality 7-2521 refused such identity and the barbarism which goes with it. He introduced his efforts for the search for knowledge in the form of electricity, a long lost treasure. What is not done collectively cannot be good, Youre nothing. We IS all these were the appreciations from World Council. The orders were to destroy him and his discoveries. He was dubbed the demonic sinner for standing out, standing out from the human herd to take on the path of knowledge, the path to the discovery of I, Prometheus. .
Main Character:.
The main character Equality 7-2521 was introduced in the very first line, writing this story which he believed to be sinful and harmful to the great WE. He was in an underground tunnel which he didnt know was used for trains or for the matter of fact what a train was. He discovered electricity here, the first thing he dared to do alone. The second was the love of a woman codenamed liberty 5-3000. Both events were strictly forbidden and regulated by the World Council but, however, they were the root cause for his pursuit of individualistic needs. Uncharted Forest was an unmarked territory which no WE" dared to venture into. This was where Equality 7-2521 found his love and knowledge, a necessity long forgotten but yet protected by a house of bricks and cement. It was then he abandoned Equality 7-2521 and took on an identity of his own.