Equality 7-2521

In a world where everyone is referred to as a number, where knowledge is not an option, and where all of the important decisions having to be made in a life time is made for you. In Ayn Rand's novel “Anthem” there is one young man, Equality 7-2521, who decides to defy these rules and live with knowledge and make his own decisions. This young man's decision is much similar to that of Adam and Eve. The temptation of sin, the temptation of the unknown. Both of these factors are present in both of these stories. The difference is the effects that happen in both of these tales. By comparing and contrasting Adam and the difference in sins and societies, we can observe how the expulsion of Adam and Eve is comparable with Equality 7-2521.

Equality 7-2521 seems to believe that he has the capability to make a better society and wants the chance to show it. He is interested in improving the living conditions of everyone in his community,not just his own. That is the first difference between Adam and Equality 7-2521. Adam with the knowledge of the rules took the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and ate it disregarding what God had said. This seems self centered on his part that he and Eve were more concerned with benefits for themselves, not of the lives of others. Equality 7-2521, in retrospect, believes that society needs to learn about his discovery because it could be beneficial not only to him, but to all of society as well. He unknowingly puts himself at risk to try and make his discovery more known, which ends up working out horribly for him. He was forced out of his city for trying to help improve it, and he did not truthfully deserve to be exiled. Adam and Eve’s expulsion is understandable because they deliberately disobeyed the word of God. They were being selfish whereas Equality 7-2521 was being selfless.

The difference in settings and societies could have also contributed to the reason of each of their sins. In