Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • Free Essays • My Term Papers • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Miscellaneous A Fight for Ego A Fight for Ego From the beginning of time, men have been very curious about anything that was unexplainable. Men have always been baffled by anything out of the ordinary, anything not understood. Ayn Rand depicts this quality wonderfully in her book, Anthem. Anthem tells a tale of the future world, a world in which the word “I’ does not exist. Nobody is an individual; everybody is equal in every way. The main character, whose self-given name was “Prometheus”, dared to go past the boundaries so clearly laid out for him. For this, he was banished from society. But with his separation from the world that he knew all his life, Prometheus gained a lot spiritually. For the first time in his whole life, he was able to be self-dependent. He no longer was told when to wake up, when to eat, when to sleep, etc. Prometheus was finally able to completely interact with the woman he loved, Gaea. He had won man’s most prized possession, freedom. And with freedom, ego too came to Prometheus. He had finally proved what he knew all along, that there was more to the world and more to life than what he was told. In the story of the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were punished for being disobedient. They were both presented with a wonderful life and wonderful everything, but there was just one rule. Adam and Eve broke that rule, and were prosecuted for it. Their natural instincts of being curious and disobedient had gotten them into trouble. Both of these stories deal with the intrigue of the untouchable. Adam and Eve had everything, but they both wanted just a bite of apple. They were both banished from the Garden of Eden. But they too gained from their exile. After they were banished, they both began to explore the nature of human beings. They started mating, and taking care of themselves, and so on… When Adam and Eve got kicked out of the Garden of Eden, they created the world as we know it today, or at least that’s how the story goes. In Anthem, there too was a forbidden item. However, it was not a mere fruit. Prometheus’ fruit was in fact knowledge. Prometheus was probably a genius. He didn’t 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 Eve’s 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. Bibliography: Word Count: 649
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