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Freedom and Confinement
Ayn Rand believed a high degree of freedom to be utterly necessary for any individual who wanted to be genuinely happy, and considered the defense of individual freedom morally essential. She also saw freedom as constantly under threat from collectivism, which tries promotes individuals serving their society or the greater good. In Anthem, Rand depicts a nightmarish society in which collectivism has won completely and real freedom no longer exists. Individuals are not allowed to do anything without the explicit permission of society, and they're especially forbidden from ever being alone. The struggles of the main character against the bonds of society, and his eventual escape from them, form the plot of the book.
Equality 7-2521 becomes free only when he learns the word "I."
Freedom is the condition that makes happiness possible.
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