He is resourceful, learns the workings of electricity on his own as a street sweeper, and learns to survive in the Uncharted Forest without being devoured by beasts or dying of starvation. He is idealistic and in his naïve idealism, he believed the City councils would pardon all his crimes and embrace his discovery. He is guilty of many of the transgressions laid out by the council but is torn between feeling remorse for them and reveling in them. Daring, defiant, and independent in thinking. Twenty-one years old, six feet tall, handsome, healthy, and virile. The novella makes Equality 7-2521 the heart of the story as he is both the protagonist and the narrator and the other characters are more or less like backgrounds that give several aspects to the appreciation of Equality 7-2521 as an individual. The citizens’ names mirror the collectivism of the society and are so impersonal that they eliminate all trace of individualism, names like Equality 7-2521, Liberty 5-300, Collective 0-0009, Unanimity 7-3304, etc. The characters are identified by social concepts and digits.
The character list of Anthem is an interesting one, particularly because of the names.
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