... old subway station from the "Unmentionable Times," and this eventually leads to his discovery of electricity. When he resolves to bring his gift of electricity before the World Council of Scholars, he is cast down and cursed for trying to aggrandize himself above his fellow men. However, he takes his light bulb and escapes into the "Unchartered Forest," on the edge of his city. He takes ... refuge in the mysterious forest, and his travels through the woods eventually lead ... him to an abandoned home were he discovers many magnificent things. The greatest of which is the word "I." Here...

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... hand to create the overall theme that light and determination can help people to earn freedom and rights and to also help people stay motivated to accomplish their dreams and goals. A quote that provides evidence for this theme is when Liberty says "We heard that you had gone into the Uncharted Forest, for the whole city is speaking of it. So on the night of the day when ... ran away from the home of the peasants. We found the marks of your feet across the plain where no men walk. So we followed them, and we went into the forest, and we followed the path where the branches were broken b...

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... expieriments. In his special hide away he figures out how he can use electricity to make light. He think his discovery will earn him a job as a Scholar, but instead they get enraged and want to punish him.. Equality runs through a window and flees into the forest. As he looks back he realizes that Liberty is not far behind. They find an abandoned ... mediocrity one must more often than not disregard set limitations. This initial transgression leads to his progression away from the state, and helps him to discover the power within himself. Equality is still not yet free. Complete freedom c...

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... must more often than not disregard set limitations. This initial transgression leads to his progression away from the state, and helps him to discover the power within himself. At this point, Equality is still not yet free. Complete freedom comes to him in the Uncharted Forest. It is here that he first begins to question authority, as Rand firmly believed that we should ... . Although he had been disobedient for some time, he had never considered his society as a flawed one. Equality says, "We have broken the law, but we have never doubted it." (p.97) ... the words of one are made to be ...

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... 's five hundred years ahead of the present time yet the technology is as advanced as it was in the middle ages and it's a collectivist social structure so out of reach that Joseph Stalin would roll over in his grave. Imagine the only source of light is a candle and that the only things known about the solar system are that the earth's flat and that the sun revolves around the earth. This dream is ... WE, one, indivisible forever" (19). Along with the misuse of the word "equality" there is also a lack of emotion in the people of this society. When people reproduce, the parents are chosen ...

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