Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden

In the story of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, connections can be made between it and the story of Equality 7-2521. They both discuss and display the consequences of “sinning,” even though they do this in different ways. By comparing and contrasting Adam and the difference in sins and societies, we can observe how the expulsion of Adam and Eve is comparable with Equality 7-2521.

In the book Anthem, Equality 7-2521 seems so think that he has the potential to better society and wants the opportunity to prove that. He in interesting in improving the environment of everyone in his community, he was not just thinking of himself. That is the first difference between Adam and Equality 7-2521. Adam knowingly took the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and ate it despite what God said. This seems selfish on his part that he and Eve were more concerned with themselves rather than anything else. Equality 7-2521 on the other hand believes that society needs to know about his discovery because it could be beneficial to them. He unknowingly puts himself at risk to try and make his discovery more known, which ends up working out horribly for him. He was forced out of his city for trying to help improve it, and he did not truthfully deserve to be exiled. Adam and Eve’s expulsion is understandable because they deliberately disobeyed the word of God. They were being selfish whereas Equality 7-2521 was being selfless.

The difference in settings and societies could have also contributed to the reason of each of their sins. In Adam and Eve were surrounded many trees with fruit, but ate from the forbidden tree because they were tricked by the serpent. They had only had each other to base human actions off of, so they saw nothing wrong with believing the snake. Equality 7-2521 lived in a community that was actually inhabited by other people, so he could base his actions off of others. However, his society was very secretive and withheld information from the workers. This is why when Equality 7-2521 makes his discovery, it is such an abomination. He does not realize that this has been invented before, but the Council of Scholars do and they are trying to avoid

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