Anthem Conflict

In Anthem, Ayn Rand addresses many conflicts than involve living in a dystopian society, but the one that stood out the most was that everyone didn't get to be an individual. In her book, as a society the people are one. They always refer to themselfs as "we" and a group of people rather than "I" or as an individual. This is a conflict because the people do nothing important in life or anything different that would make them seen superior to their brothers. When you live your life being the same as everyone else there are many drawbacks. For one, you have no self-esteem or, the forbiden word, "ego." This leads to a conflict because Equality discovers that they might not be allowed to be different, but they can be different. He then goes against all of his society's laws in orded to finally become an indevidual. This conflist is Man vs. Society because Equality is going against his dystopian society's rules and getting punished for it.