Anthem- Conflict 12/2/09

The conflict in Any Rands novel Anthem is individualsim. The men and women in this society live in an environment where everyone is expected to be the same, it is illegal to think, act, or speak in different ways than everyone else. Therefore, in this society no one really has their own personality and are not really individuals. Individualsim becomes a conflict in this novel when the author tries to find out his true identity, not as a society, but as an individual. He breaks many laws, but doesnt care and will do whatever he can to explore the feeling of love, to see himself for the first time, to invent something new and benificial, to think differently than all his brothers, and to break away from his societys conservative ways.