<P> They find a house from the Unmentionable Times in the mountains and decide to live in it . While reading books from the house's library, Equality discovers the word "I" and tells the Golden One about it . Having rediscovered individuality, they give themselves new names from the books: Equality becomes "Prometheus" and Liberty becomes "Gaea". Gaea is pregnant with Prometheus' child . Prometheus wonders how men in the past could have given up their individuality; he plans a future in which they will regain it . </P> <P> Ayn Rand initially conceived Anthem as a play when she was a teenager living in Soviet Russia . After migrating to the United States, Rand didn't think of writing Anthem, but reconsidered after reading a short story in The Saturday Evening Post set in the future . Seeing that mainstream magazines would publish speculative fiction, she decided to try submitting Anthem to them . She wrote the story in the summer of 1937, while taking a break from research she was doing for her next novel, The Fountainhead . </P> <P> Rand's working title was Ego . Leonard Peikoff explains the meaning behind this title: "(Rand) is (implicitly) upholding the central principles of her philosophy and of her heroes: reason, values, volition, individualism ." Thinking that the original title was too blunt, unemotional, and would give away too much of the theme, Rand changed the title to Anthem . "The present novel, in Miss Rand's mind, was from the outset an ode to man's ego . It was not difficult, therefore, to change the working title: to move from' ego' to' ode' or' anthem', leaving the object celebrated by the ode to be discovered by the reader ." </P> <P> There are similarities between Anthem and the 1921 novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, another author who had lived in communist Russia . These include: </P>

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