Anthem Conflict

In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-521 faces a conflict of man vs universe throughout the entire book. The conflict is that Equality 7-521 if different then everyone else in his world because he is taller, he is smarter and thinks differently. Later along in the story he becomes even more different when he invents electricity for this is outlawed because only scholars can create and discover new things for Equality 7-521 is only a street sweeper. He escapes his man vs universe struggle by escaping from his city and running away into the forest but after making his way through the forest with his friend which he calls the Golden One, they reach a house from the unmentionable times which houses books and inventions from times prior to theirs. Through the story you can see the man vs universe conflict because of the way the universe treats him.