Journal 14 - Anthem Quote

The passage from Anthem I chose is on page 96 “ I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from the. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man’s soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet. I am neither foe nor friends to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer- by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.”(page 96). I chose this quote  because I feel that it is very important because Equality also known as Prometheus now finally realizes that it is ok to be different and that no one owns you. He realizes that he is an individual and does not owe anything to the people that he use to live with.  He realizes how corrupt their society was and does not want to have anything to do with that peculiar society. He states that he is not a friend but he is not enemies with them, he has a mutual feeling towards them. He does not want to live in a society where people are reprehended for being different or showing their individualism. Equality wants to learn more that the world has to offer him. Equality is discovering what it likes to live in our society, meaning he is learned to have freedom to express ourselves and he enjoys it. This quote represents the break Equality makes from his old society. He is never going back to that society, he wants to live with the Golden One in the forbidden forest and learn all that the world has in it. He is developing to his own person and learning things that he never even though of. This is important because it shows how Equality has changed his life from living in his current society to living with the Golden One in freedom.