as a forbidden item. However, it was not a mere fruit. Prometheus fruit was in fact knowledge. Prometheus was probably a genius. He didnt think like all the men in his world. He was very creative and ingenious, and he wanted more than anything to be self-reliant. When he snuck away to the subway station and did his experiments, he was breaking all the rules given to him. When he created a light bulb all by himself, he thought he would be praised. Instead he was shunned for working by himself without authority to do so. In the story of Adam and Eve, we are told that they ate the forbidden fruit, and were banished. This story closely relates to Anthem in the fact that the characters in both stories had clear rules laid out for them, and the characters broke those rules due to their natural instincts. Maybe Adam and Eves banishment from the Garden of Eden was not due to them eating the apple. Maybe they too quested for knowledge that they were not supposed to have. Either way, Prometheus, Gaea, Adam and Eve all came out on top. Prometheus and Gaea were left in a huge house on top of a mountain all by themselves. They were starting a new society, a free society. Adam and Eve did create their world, our world, which we are a part of today. So in the end, both couples came out with something they did not have in their controlling world, they all came out of it with ego....
