In Ayn Rand's book, Anthem, Egoism played an extremely big part but wasn't revealed until the end of the book. Ego means "lacking in ones own interests" meaning that you don't do what you like to do and don't have your own feelings. During the book everyone who was living in the society was lacking an ego. When people lack egos they don't have their own personalities and they act as robots. None of the people actually had their own names. The actions of all the students in the society wasn't in the will of their own, that the beneficiaries of their actions was others and not theirs which it should have been. Equality 7-2521 was a perfect example of some
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