Pages: 1 words Published: February 13, View Entire Sample Download Sample. Text preview. In Anthem, living without the Council of Scholars was going to be a good thing for Equality because he did not have to follow what they had said and he could live with f View entire sample Join StudyHippo to see entire essay. Related assignments. When they eat the fruit, Adam and Eve become aware of their own bodies and selves. When God, who has forbidden them to eat of the tree of knowledge, discovers their sin, he throws them out of the garden and into the world, where they spawn a flawed race of men.
For Rand, Eden is a place that can be re-entered by using knowledge itself. Ironically, it takes becoming an outcast for Equality to realize where he will be able to find happiness and self-awareness.
For Rand, self-awareness is saving, not damning. Technology and nature, often in tension in literature, are means to the same end in Anthem. The similarities have been stated although… There are also differences between Adam and Equality One is the sin they committed.
Equality committed the sin of individual thought. He dared to live, think and love for himself. As a result, he was banished from the Garden of Eden. Another difference is how they reacted after they left their residence. When Adam was banished, he did not seek revenge against God. He decided to continue living as normally as possible. Equality on the other hand, decided to start a new society that permits individual thought and makes it his goal to tear down the society he lived in and raze the city he lived in to the ground.
This essay summarized their similarities and differences. There are many other ways to compare and contrast Adam and Equality that are not written in this essay. They may be in a different one.
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