Equality has a different potential from the rest of the people, as one, and this concerns the Council. When worked in a group, man is more limited to his actions since everybody has to agree, but alone, a man has no limits. Equality grew up to be independent, rather than dependent what the Council wants and he is considered evil.
To try and level his thoughts, they make him a street sweeper so that he will underestimate himself and not try to do something. The main character of this book, Equality , struggles with his life when he wants to take off on his own path and express his personal ideas, however everyone else meets these ideas with anger and skepticism.
Everyone has been persuaded to believe that everybody is equal and no one has the right to have individualised thoughts. His desire to learn leads him to branch out and explore new things, helping him form new individualised thoughts. In the book it explains many different characters that break the rules for their friends. Having friends, looking at girls, talking to girls is not allowed. Private Doss refusing to take a gun into combat was very dauntless.
Private Doss was called a conscientious cooperator, meaning that he knew what he was doing, however, he continued to do it because he believed that what he was doing was right. Also, due to his past experiences, refusal of a weapon meant not killing anyone. Something that Equality has a great deal of. Her height, piercing eyes, and prideful manner draw him in. While he tried to overcome his preference for his friend International , he cannot—and does not want to—overcome his preference for Liberty When Equality discovers the lightbulb, he has now found a reason to rebel completely from his society.
Equality says in light of such an incredible discovery, he now views his assigned role in society to be a waste of time. Readers may infer here that light from the lightbulb symbolizes knowledge and curiosity, two mental qualities his society has tried to suppress for so long.
Equality comments on the house he and Liberty — the Golden One—find in the Unchartered Forest. Such a discovery marks a time when Equality can begin to provide for himself. As a couple, he and Liberty can now settle into a life in the forest together. They also find books in the house, which leads to their discovery of the word I and their complete break from society.
Equality declares that he will raise his children to learn and use the word I, the very word forbidden by his cursed city of birth, a word for which he watched the Transgressor of the Unspeakable Word be burned alive.
I charge you, then, abide by the proclamation you have made: from this day forth, never speak again to these men or to me; you yourself are the pollution of this country.
He becomes very angry and insolent with Oedipus. He thinks he is the evil in the society that is causing destruction and damage to the people.
He believes that the puritans all had sins they never shared, and that the rules they lived their life by were simply stupid. The man who Hester had sex with happened to be the towns minister, Dimmesdale. She is forced to stand on a scaffold in front of the whole town where Dimmesdale is interrogating her. It is ironic that Dimmesdale is the pastor because according to puritan beliefs, he has committed one of the worst sins of all time, even though it was in secret. As Collective is seeing Equality 's box, in pure rage, exclaims, " How dared you think that your mind held greater wisdom than the mind of your brothers?
And if the council had decreed that you be a street sweeper, how dared you think that you could be a better use to men than in sweeping the streets. He also chastises Equality for inventing the box when his job was a street sweeper.
This word came from the unmentionable times and the entire community believes that it would bring the place to ruin if they started thinking individually.
Equality himself is learning about everything new. International , though himself an exceptionally independent man, raises his hands to his ears, "for never had they heard such words as these. Clearly, Equality is a genius. Under unspeakably arduous conditions, and in the face of bitter antagonism from the powerful authorities who oppose him, he proceeds to advance the state of humankind's knowledge by an enormous leap.
With only his own talent and initiative — with nothing but obstacles contributed by others — Equality is able to reinvent the electric light in a society that has only recently made the progress from torches to candles. This invention is an extraordinary testimony to his own genius and perseverance. Equality is a fictitious example of the great thinkers of history who have made revolutionary breakthroughs in spite of the social antagonism they faced.
Such individuals as Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Robert Fulton, the Wright Brothers, and many others were scientists and inventors whose discoveries and innovations overturned previous thinking.
Such geniuses were not only confronted by the difficulty of identifying nature's secrets but also by the antagonism of the society whose beliefs they challenged. Great creative thinkers such as Equality are motivated by the love of their work — whether it is biology, medicine, or physics or in such areas of the humanities as literature, music, or philosophy. Their passion keeps them going despite the inherent difficulties of making intellectual breakthroughs and of battling the conservative elements of society that oppose them.
Equality will not surrender his creative work no matter the degree or variety of difficulties he encounters. This persistence is a measure of his integrity. He lives by his convictions regardless of the obstacles that confront him. For a man to possess the virtue of integrity, he must be true in action to the principles and values that he holds.
He must practice what he preaches.
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