

He is artistic and draws comic artworks to the disapproval of their Teachers. He is strong, spirited, and healthy with a smiling gleam in his eyes. She, however, becomes easily subservient to the whims of Equality when she follows him into the Uncharted Forest and her character declines into a docile companion for Equality 7-2521.įriend and companion to Equality. She is bold and basks in her beauty, being fascinated when she discovers colors and fashion. As a credit to her courage, she escapes from the City into the Uncharted Forest, risking the dangers of the unknown in her world to search for the man she loves. She is determined, fearless, and goes after what she wants. Equality 7-2521 names her The Golden One and later names her Gaea after a goddess. She is also defiant and does not submit to the collectivism of the City. She works as a planter in the Home of the Peasants but carries herself gracefully and does her chores with a regal poise. He later changes his name to Prometheus after the man he described as a bearer of light.Ī seventeen-year-old slender and beautiful blonde girl. The hallmark of his character development is when he fully accepts himself without the doubts indoctrinated into him by the authorities of the city. Liberty 5-3000 identifies his irrepressible individuality and names him The Unconquered. He is possessive of the people and things he loves and this shows in his strong impulse to prevent Liberty 5-3000 from going through the ritual of mating organized by the state and in his fierce protectiveness of the house he finds in the Uncharted Forest. He is romantic and falls in love with a girl called Liberty 5-3000 against the rules of the city and even gives her a personal name of his choosing. 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.
