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Anthem by Ayn Rand Book For School
Hi,
I am reading Anthem by Ayn Rand and anyone whos read this please help.
I have a paper that I have to do and one question is
Why does the Council of Vocations assign Equality 7-2521 the job of Street Sweeper? Is it due to error, incompetence, or a more sinister motivation? Explain.
Thank you so much for your help!!
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It sounds like capitalist propaganda to me, and I would object to being forced to reading it.
Here's from wikipedia([Link](Mouse over link to see full location)):
Equality is assigned to work as a street sweeper, and accepts it willingly to repent for his transgression (his desire to learn). He works with International 4-8818 and Union 5-3992. International is exceptionally tall, a great artist (which is his transgression, as only people chosen to be artists may draw), and Equality's only friend (which is also a crime because, in Anthem's society, one is not supposed to prefer one of his brothers over the rest). Union, "they of the half-brain," suffers from epilepsy.
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It's been years since I read this book, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt.
I believe he was assigned that job because they were, basically, frightened of his intelligence. Squelching that intelligence will therefore stop him from developing methods, inventions, etc. that would put their supposed Utopian society at risk. Everyone in this era [in the book] is expected to be equal, hence the collective "We". Allowing one person to deviate from an assigned position, or interfere with the way the society currently exists, puts that very society in danger.
In other words, they didn't want him to rock the boat.
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