... wants. Together, these motifs create a theme. By using these two motifs, the point that Rand wants you to understand is that light and determination motivates Equality to try and earn freedom. The overall theme of the book is that light and determination can help to earn freedom and rights. The first motif emphasized in the text is light which represents hope and motivation. This motif appears when Equality says ... where no men walk. So we followed them, and we went into the forest, and we followed the path where the branches were broken by your body (Rand 82)." This quote demonstrates...

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... 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 he changes his name from Equality 7-2521, to Prometheus, a name ... ...

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... 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. 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) According ... accomplishments....

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... 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 ... each day our sight were growing sharper than the hawk's and clearer than rock crystal".(36) As he breaks link after link in his chains of ignorance he is shunned by the ignorant and runs into the f...

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