Anthem
by Ayn Rand
In Divine, Rand deals with a terrible future in which people have neither a name, nor independence, nor values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future, when all decisions are made by the committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism are destroyed. Despite this limiting environment, there is still a spark of individual thought and freedom burning within it – a passion that he has been taught to call sinful. In a completely egalitarian world, Equality 7-2521 dares to stand apart from the herd – to think and choose for oneself, to explore electricity and to love the woman of her choosing. Now he was marked by death for committing the last sin. In a world dominated by the great "we," he rediscovered the lost and sacred word – "I."
