...A dystopia is an anti-paradise usually with a totalitarian government controlling it. A dystopian novel is often a futuristic society that has degraded into a repressive and controlled state. Ayn Rand was a Russian-born American novelist who wrote Anthem during World War 2. Ayn Rand’s Anthem is an example of a dystopian novel based on the society worshipping the council, independent thought, free speech and the ability to retain any knowledge they wanted is restricted and the Unmentionable times being banished and forgotten. The first reason showing that Anthem is a dystopian novel is that the society worships the Council of Scholars. The Council makes the rules and disciplines the people who do not follow the rules. One of the Council’s...
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...Imagin living in a world where the government controls your life from cradle to grave. Would you want to live in that world or would you rebel against the government? That is the sort of scenario that Ayn Rand give to our main character, Equality 7-2521, in her dystopian fiction book, Anthem. The book takes place far into the future where mankind has taken many steps backwards and now lives in cities where the government controls everything. In this world there is no I or me only we. Everyone thinks that they are doing what they are for the good of mankind and so they are nothing as long as they help mankind survive another generation. The main question facing the main character is whether or not the government should be able to control and...
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...utopian societies as if they were real. After reading multiple dystopian articles, short stories and even a book, it is easy to see that the concept of a utopia is one that ultimately cannot exist and that utopias ultimately perish and turn into a dystopia. All of the stories mentioned in this essay share one theme: the government plays a role in what they do, what occupation they have, who they interact with, and...
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...Athena Garcia Mrs. McClary English 4, P.4 10/30/17 Gaea Women throughout time have been pushed to the side as they are thought to have a lower status in society compared to men. This has been like this starting with the time Greeks lived to today in our world. Men have almost always been the dominant beings. Ayn Rand’s Anthem she questions the societal norm of women in a world of dystopia and male dominance. With the idea that women are to be a obedient and nurturing females Ayn Rand's portrayal of women in Anthem steers women into a place of inferiority. One way that women are thought to be inferior is when it comes to the women’s responsibilities to society created in Anthem they are obviously unfair. When it comes to the government,...
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...Equality’s discovery of electricity was an incredible feat considering the complexity of society Ayn Rand depicted for Anthem. Rand’s portrayal of society contrasts with the quintessential dystopian society portrayed in many novels such as The Giver and Fahrenheit 451. The civilization in Anthem exists some time in the future, however, the intricacy of technology had declined to the point where citizens were using candles and torches as methods of illuminating their surroundings. The cause of this decline traced to the development of an intolerance towards individualism. Equality never fit in his community because of his strong nonconformist personality. He had preferences and objects of joy, a sin he called “the great Transgression of Preference” (6). He had a bias for science during his schooling and had a tendency to commit transgressions, which foreshadow his experiments in the tunnel. His...
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...A collectivist society where individuality is punishable by death and men are viewed as “all in one and one in all… indivisible and forever”; herein lies the world of Anthem, an atypical yet discomforting dystopian world. Like most dystopias, the government is oppressive and tyrannical, hiding behind a false veil of fairness and equality. Different is the retrogressive development of technology, which can be described as primitive at best. The stark contrast between this portrayal and portrayals in other dystopias highlights the impact individualism has on the progression of technology in society. Ayn Rand’s Anthem implies that invention inherently encourages the development of the individual and technology thrives when independent thought...
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...The question of whether total equality is a desirable quality or the end of liberty has been a controversial topic for hundreds of thousands of years. But not only have there been discussions about this, there have been wars as capitalist countries have fought communist nations. Yet, not once has there been an example (we know of) where every single citizen was really totally equal to others. Therefore, the question of whether total equality is good or not is still accurate today. As it is easier to focus on a vision such as the one by Ayn Rand in the novel “Anthem” than to come up with a hypothetical solution, I will take Rand’s novel and “The Handmaid’s Tale” into account. In both visions there may be total equality for most citizens, but firstly, there are certain people with much more power (councils and the government), and, secondly, equality comes at the price of a major reduction of freedom....
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...Dorie Love-Ashby P. Elmore Composition II 1302-7420 5/25/11 FAULKNER Faulkner was born in 1897, to a genteel southern family. His father, Murry Cuthbert Falkner, was a railroad worker, owner of a cottonseed oil and ice plant, livery stable operator, hardware store employee, and secretary and business manager at University of Mississippi. His mother was Maud Butler Falkner. Falkner grew up and spent most of his life, off and on, in Oxford, Mississippi. He trained for the Royal Air Force in Canada, and later the British Royal Air Force during World War I, but the war was over before he saw action. After the war he briefly attended the University of Mississippi. He married Lida Estelle Oldham Franklin, June 20, 1929. The Faulkner works were greatly influenced by his family history. The area in which he lived had a great deal to do with his sense of the doleful position of Black and WhiteAmericans. This also influenced his sense of humor and is said to be the legacy of earlier writers like Mark Twain. Faulkner was best known for his novels, but he also wrote short stories, poetry and occasional screenplays.. Film versions have been made of several of his works: Sanctuary (1961), Intruder in the Dust (1949), The Sound and the Fury(1959), The Reivers (1969), and Pylon (1957; or Tarnished Angels). Others (Requiem for a Nun, 1951, and "Barn Burning") have been filmed for television. (Pierce, Constance, and Heller) Faulkner received the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature for "his...
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