As a teenager, I encountered recent discoveries about myself and the world, in a thirst for gaining more knowledge, new responsibilities, and orders from elders. It is the overwhelming combination of these things that occasionally hits me with the feeling of being a slave, chained to the world, to my home, and to my family. These expectations and dictates are restrictions, but they do not represent true slavery. True slavery controls every aspect of a man; the dictator must enslave man's body and destroy his mind. This effort to completely subjugate humanity is exemplified by the leaders and society of Ayn Rand's Anthem. In this novel, leaders try to suppress people's actions, emotions, and thoughts in an attempt to destroy both mind and body. Anyone can instruct another person to act in a certain way, but a dictator forces the action on others by doing so. impossible to follow your passion. Anthem's leaders governed the lives of citizens; they gave each one a job and selected his companions. Equality 7-2521, the main character of the novel, wanted to increase his knowledge of the earth and the inventions of scholars. To do this, Equality had to become a scholar himself. His life's work depended on the vocation assigned to him, because in his society “you will do what the Council of Vocations prescribes” (p. 22). When the Council of Vocations declared him a street cleaner, they forbade him from studying science and creating inventions. Equality loved the “Science of things”, but could not follow his passion because of the law (pp. 23-26). The leaders of this world also controlled the mating process. Producing offspring can only be done at one time, the "Mating Time". “T… the middle of the paper… dependently did not change as Equality got older. When he discovered the hidden tunnel with International 4-8818, Equality decided to explore the unknown on his own, a thought that is rarely imagined in a society where "there is no blacker transgression than doing or thinking alone" ( page 31/17). Laws regarding the separation of a person from other people gave leaders the authority to enforce uniformity of thoughts. Through thoughts, emotions and actions and Any Rand's Anthem shows that dictators must control every part of a man to defeat him in the end. It is nothing but laws, leaders and society that destroy man. Laws are established to support destruction, leaders enforce it, and society allows it. How can we allow the enslavement of an individual? How can we allow the annihilation of a mind and a body?