With the re-discovery of some lost technology, Equality 7-2521 hopes to impress the authorities, help humanity and be allowed to pursue his career as a scholar, but instead he is cursed.

He also meets a girls, Liberty 5-3000, with whom he falls in love. scientist) he is assigned to serve the community as a street sweeper.Outside the city, Equality 7-2521 discovers a place where he can withdraw, devote himself in self-study and develop his invention. Thus, while Equality 7-2521's ambition was to become a scholar (i.e. Children are raised away from their parents, and in youth there is no freedom of choice in careers. Like their names, all other traces of independence and individuality have been erased. The main characters are identified as Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000. The story of the novella is fairly simple.At the time of the story, people no longer have names. It has been suggested that she might have been influenced by Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We, which was published in 1921, but the main consensus is that Rand independently conceived the idea for Anthem.By the late 1930s, science-fiction was no longer a novelty, but the dystopian nature of Anthem, the idea of technological regression in the future and the social implications of the loss of civilization may have surprised readers.

Therefore, its publication was preceded by We the Living, and followed by her writing The Fountainhead.The novella already contains all the major elements of Rand's philosophy. Rand first developed her idea for the story during the early 1920s, before emigrating, but did not write the story down in its present form until the summer of 1937.

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