...special way, why do people try to control them and put them in a box? Ayn Rand wrote the book Anthem, a story about defying the laws and the government. New discoveries to knowledge, love and finding your own self-worth, which are foreign and forbidden to their lifestyle. Due to the government’s control on creativity, Equality’s uniqueness lead him to break those laws. Who knew that curiosity could get people killed? When Equality and International found the tunnel, they were afraid of getting harmed if the told anyone about the tunnel in general. “‘International 4-8818,’ we asked, ‘will you report us to the Council and see us lashed to the death before your eyes?’” (Rand 34). Equality 7-2521 was telling International what could happen if they told the council what they have been up to with using their instincts in finding the tunnel. They would get “lashed” just for finding the tunnel because that means they would have used their imagination to avert from their street. Equality and International have broken almost every rule just for the tunnel incident, and then there is next chapter…...
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...The society that exists within the pages of Anthem values collective thought and rejects individuality in any way, as “there are no men but only the great WE” (Rand 19). This is especially unfortunate for Equality 7-2521, one man out of his many “brothers” and “sisters.” For Equality is not like his fellow men. He is more inquisitive than his brothers, more intelligent than his brothers. But it is sinful to be different. When Equality became 15 years old and stood before the Council of Vocations to receive his Life Mandate (the job he will perform for the rest of his life), he was assigned the lowly and insulting job of Street Sweeper. This designation did not occur by error or incompetence, however. The Council of Vocations assigned Equality...
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...Books are read all over the world. While some people read action adventure and comedy, others read romance and science fiction. Recently in my English class we read Anthem by Ayn Rand. This is a dystopian novel, Equality's home is ruled by a society that doesn't believe in individualism. So as all books have a happy ending, this is just a minute quote “I guard my treasures: My thought, my will. And the greatest of this is my freedom”. This quote is very important in the story because Equality never did things for himself. He was being controlled and manipulated in the government's ways of living. He didn't think for himself, he was a puppet. Then he started to rebel against the government, he started to work alone, he would steal...
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...Anthem Writing contest I am. I think. I will, when these words are thought nothing out of the ordinary comes to mind. According to Ayn Rand’s book anthem, mine, my, and I are all taken for granted. Ayn Rand was born in 1905 and her book Anthem, published in 1938 kick started a all new genre of dystopian society books. In Anthem a future world has lost technology and all knowledge of individualism. They have abandoned the thought of themselves and now “worship” the word we. Equality 7-2151 breaks we’s invisible bond made by us and we then created a brand new utopian society, that thrives on individualism. The perfect society equality created at the end of the book will include little to no rules from his past home because, he ran away from these rules, equality knows the unspeakable word, and the leader of his land is himself. Equality 7-2125 grew up just like everybody else. At age five left for schooling then at age fifteen got a job as a streetsweeper, doing everything as a whole with no thought of themselves whatsoever. Then years later his world changed when he found a grate within the outskirts of the colony and ventured inside. In the tunnel he was in awe at the sophistication of everything the tunnel...
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...Ayn Rand is an author who had written Atlas Shrugged, then had written other articles and essays on her philosophy. She was a big believer in ethical egoism, or what she would then call “Objectivism”, as said in the Mike Wallace Interview in 1959. She explains that objectivism is “a philosophy that reality exists on an objective absolute. That man’s mind/reason is his way of perceiving it. Man needs irrational morality.” Ayn Rand put this philosophy into her book, Anthem, which is about a world in the future where the government controls everything one sees, does, and who they even are. In the book, the main character is Equality 7-2521, who can’t even say they are an individual and repeating refers to himself as “we”. The government there...
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...What are the words which we have lost?¨ Equality 7-2521 states of Ayn Rand Anthem. This classic novella is about one man facing the laws of the society. Were everyone thinks he’s a sinner. He fights for equality. Along his trials he finds out what the passion to love to be elated, to feel free. Equality 7-2521 was in a dark world to begin with. He wanted to escape the society, he finally is facing the fact and letting go of all the pain,fear,doubt. The fearful dark and quiet city, no one talks everyone listens everyone is equal. He is breaking a law because he’s alone. “The laws say that none among men may be along at anytime. For this is the great transgression and the root of all evil.¨ (Rand 17)...
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...Antherm Literary Analysis: Self understanding The future, a huge mystery to everyone and everything. It yields many choices and paths for mankind, to reach out to space, to become united as one, or to destroy our world or make every man a slave and subdue to a higher power. One of these paths taken by men is shown in the book “Anthem” by Ayn Rand. Instead of furthering our technology, intelligence of the world, or peace among us, we choose, or a council chooses, to make every man, woman, every individual to be a “drone” or a slave to a society that suppresses talents and destroys individual thoughts and actions. The society has taken a step back, going to candles and carriages. People are forced to do jobs that a large council chooses for them and everyone is so obedient that that the thought of being “disobedient” to the council is a sin. But in every dark, gloomy dystopia, there is a small light that can lead someone on a path to push back the suppression or the higher power. All it takes is a single individual to make something amazing and that influences the way he/she challenges themself and the society that they live in. In “Anthem”, this individual is Equality 7-2521 or Prometheus by the end of the book who brings light in a...
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...Anthem by Ayn Rand expresses many forces including love and fear. Love and fear are extremely different forces, yet they can completely change a person's outlook on something. Throughout the story, fear shapes Equality’s identity, not because of his own feardom, but because he witnessed how the whole community was scared to be individuals. Equality did not want to live his life in fear of being different, so he went off on his own to be different. As the story goes on, and Equality meets the Golden One, he develops love towards her. This love shapes Equality's personality. Both forces, love, and fear, shape Equality's identity throughout the story and continue to shape people around him. Love shapes Equality's personality because of...
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...¨Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.¨ (Ayn Rand) In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality took the first steps to have freedom and developing a better society because that is what he believes in and thinks is right. Equality is a character who grows and develops throughout the book by showing signs of resistance, bravery and intelligence. Equality shows resistance by sneaking out to the tunnel at night. By him sneaking out he is showing resistance because he is going places alone and without permission and both those things are illegal in the society that Equality lives in. He also writes in a journal. In this society, it is against the laws to write without...
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...greater when he might have the less”-Plato. Each person in the world is born with their own unique personality that no one else can change or take away. In Anthem, Ayn Rand demonstrates how it is impossible to deny a person of their nature, no matter what the cost is. In this story independence is denied, but not broken. Individuality is masked, but still shines through. Freedom is lost, but finds a way back. Equality 7-2521, another young adult trapped in a society where no one is better than the other; they cannot depend on themselves. Equality has an independent mind. When Equality was finishing his job with International 4-8818, they come...
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...Life is nothing without friendship. Everybody has friends, and people they love, but above all are the friends you love. The ones you’d do anything for. They’re the people who make life worth living. The theme of friendship and love is shown strongly in “Anthem” by Ayn Rand and “Long Live” by Taylor Swift. The book “Anthem” is about a dystopian society. Anything that isn’t done collectively is frowned upon. To have friends or to love is outlawed. Then Equality 7-2521 makes a friend and falls in love (not with the same person), defying society. Friendship and love are important themes in Anthem. A quote that displays this is, “We stood still; for the first time did we know fear; and then pain. And we stood still that we might not spill this pain more precious than pleasure” (39). This was the...
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...Compare and Contrast Anthem with Night Even though books come in many genres, they can still be compared and contrasted. This applies to almost all books. For example, Eliezer Wiesel’s Night and Ayn Rand’s Anthem are different genres. However, the similarities and differences between these author’s works are definite and deserve analysis. Such similarities include how the societies handle the executions of criminals. In Anthem, Equality has to stand “...in the great square with all the children and all the men of the city, sent to behold the burning” (Rand, 38). During Elie’s experience in the Holocaust, he and everyone else in his camp has to walk “...past the hanged boy and stared at his extinguished eyes, the tongue gaping from his mouth. The Kapos forced everyone to look him squarely in the face” (Wiesel, 63). Also, both Elie and Equality receive messages from watching a public execution. When the pipel is hanged, Elie thinks that God is no longer with the Jews and takes it to...
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...in the way you’re going about it? “When making the normative judgement that something is pleasing to us or that we have a reason to act in a particular way… moral motivation gives the impression to be of more significance in the apparent opposition between self-interest and morality.”In Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, Equality, the protagonist, knows that his invention will benefit humankind greatly. However, this is not his primary motivation in conducting his experiments. His primary motivation is his ego. An analysis of this motivation, in a sense, summons to contest if the prime motivation of Equality is right when looking at his...
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...In 1917, Vladimir Lenin staged a revolution in Russia and established a communist regime. Following the death of Lenin, the historic city of Petrograd was renamed Leningrad commemorating him and the communist revolution he led. Ayn Rand, living in Russia then, experienced the changes caused by the Russian Revolution, and the people now had to live in fear of the government and abide by the rules they passed. To criticize the authoritarian government in Russia and the acceptance of the people being oppressed, Rand wrote the book Anthem. Equality 7-2521, the main character, starts Anthem by living in a collective society until he uncovers knowledge forbidden by the government which leads him to rediscover the individualism that his society has lost. As Equality goes through the process of rediscovering...
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...-Conformity and Rebellion: In my analysis of Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” I would tend agree that people are divided based on their roles and functions in society. This division of people may be outside of an individual’s or group of people’s control. This division of people may be driven by socioeconomic, geographic, political, ideological or technological reasons. There may be individuals in power that will dictate where classes of people should live and work. The divisions of people into classes can be seen in both the real world and fictional writings. There may be divisions of classes within the same group of people based on power and influence in that group. Some of these individuals in these groups may also consist of those rare individuals with a conscience, that Thoreau speaks of, who can influence change or incite a rebellion. If the actions of these rare individuals incites a revolution and takes down those individuals currently in power then I would agree they would be considered an enemy of the state. People can also be divided based on their roles and functions in society without force or coercion. Their culture or customs of a society may dictate roles and functions. An individual may be born into this society with fixed expectations of their roles or functions. This agreement can be the seen in the case of Changez, in the Reluctant Fundamentalist. Changez was born into a caste system where his family held some form of power and influence based...
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