Motivations can be big things or tin things. To some, their family and friends are their motivation. To others, something as a simple as a smile can be their motivation. Equality 7-2521, from the book Anthem, however, is motivated by a big thing in his dystopic future. By understanding his motivation, his reasoning, and his society, any reader can better understand Equality’s ways. Equality had made a groundbreaking creation. With some help from a circuit and wires, Equality created a box of light
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During World War II, the Berlin Wall blockaded Berlin’s citizens from both the outside world and restricted people's access to information. Very similarly, Ayn Rand describes this culture in Anthem. Rand purpose to write Anthem is to represent the effects of society if people's basic rights are taken away and no one can innovate on anything. Rand uses symbolism to illustrate the ideas between happiness, curiosity, and exploration which all represent light in the new land discovered by Prometheus
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Ayn Rand’s Anthem focuses on a society in which individuality is crushed and conformity is the source of survival. A citizen of that society by the name of Equality has been punished all his life because of his differences, those being his outstanding intelligence and physique. He and his peers are taught at the same pace in school, and potentially looked down upon if one did any better than the person next to them. On page 21, Equality says “We tried to forget our lessons, but we always remembered
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Socialism. Altruism. Communism. The great evil of collectivism bears many names, but all are based upon the same unattainable ideal: equality. The societies that embrace these totalitarian political forms, including that of Ayn Rand’s Anthem, intend to become the paragon of parity by having their citizens sacrifice their own happiness for that of their brethren. The leaders of Anthem’s supposedly egalitarian society justify this subtly sadistic method of rule with the ideals of equality, fraternity
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In Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem, she chose to have odd personal pronoun usage. In the novel, Rand used the pronouns “we” and “our” instead of “I” and “me”. Ayn Rand chose this pronoun usage because she wanted to demonstrate how in 1938 it was shamed upon to have your own thoughts and opinions. In Anthem the scholars stated that it is a sin to refer to themselves as “I”. It is even said that they would be punished for using the word because it would be a “great transgression”( ). In the novel, the people
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The novel, Anthem, by Ayn Rand tells about a man whom individualism and freedom are taken away. In the novel, the sacred word, Ego, and the word “I” were used to express individualism. During the Socratic Seminar, my class and I discussed the significant meanings behind the words and its connection toward the transgressor. The transgressor was punished because he had spoken the scared word which was viewed by the society as a curse. We discussed that it was a public display to the society to demonstrate
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“The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.” (Bill O'Reilly). The government in Anthem by Ayn Rand is a totalitarian state. The hero of Anthem has a name the the government gave him, Equality 7-2521. He is twenty one- years old when he escaped. This relates to Ayn Rand, because she escaped from the soviet union at the same age. Just like her hero did she decided to change
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self-satisfaction.” While happiness can be achieved through materialistic things, Benzadi, along with Ray Bradbury and Ayn Rand, agrees that not all things can bring true happiness to life. Similarly to Benzadi’s idea, the novels Fahrenheit 451 and the novella Anthem, by authors Bradbury and Rand, display that to reach a high level of satisfaction, one must have a desire for knowledge, freedom to express individuality, and a desire to belong. Once these are accomplished, true happiness can be achieved. The hunger
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In the novel, Anthem, Equality knew that his community would benefit from his invention; however, the real motive for his rediscovery was his own selfish desire to learn more and his skepticism of his society's ideals. Evidence of this motive is apparent in the textual quote on page ninety-five, "My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose." At this point in the story, Equality came to terms with his actions and realized that there is nothing
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Anthem for Doomed Youth Wilfred Owen writes his poems from a personal experience on the frontline of World War 1 and captures the reader’s attention by drawing them into the life of a soldier. He sought to reveal to those not directly involved in the war, the horror and brutality being experienced, with an aim to create awareness to put an end to all wars. He draws his readers into the world of poetry through descriptive languages and poetic devices that describe his personal experiences. In the
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