Anthem is a very interesting book about a collectivist society. Anthem takes place in the future, but the society has taken huge steps backward in technology. Equality (the main character) is different. He is 6 feet tall and incredibly smart. Anthem follows Equality's journey to discover the true meaning of life. On his path encounters hardship, love, danger and other emotions. One question remains will he find the true meaning of life? The community depicted in Anthem is very strict. There
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The society ‘Anthem’ takes place in is based solely on the collective, no individualism allowed. This limits the people in the community greatly, and since all the people of the world live under a select group of rulers, in similar communities, new technology is severely limited and must go through 50 years of tests in order to be approved (Rand 74). Any new technology proposed by the council of scholars must be agreed upon by the others, and only the scholars can make new discoveries. Equality had
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Imagine a world with no freedom where there is no individuality and equality. Plot of Anthem by Ayn Rand, she talks about this place where is no freedom. The citizens of this place did not even have names, they had numbers and had to do everything together no matter what it is. Equality 7-25271 one of the citizens, is a very interesting man he thinks that each one should be treated as an individual. He started to do things that he should not do like have his own project to work on, spend time with
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The book Anthem at first it seems complicated, but after reading it it becomes more clear. You start in a city that restricts one’s knowledge and independence. Equality 7-2521, he is the main character, his determination is to become a scholar. Liberty 5-3000, is another main character, she begins to lurke behind Equality 7-2521. They end up discovering a new world together. They live in a city that has isolated itself from the world. Outside the city is the Uncharted Forest, where no man has ever
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In Ayn Rand’s Anthem, a society is built on the ideology of “Brotherhood” and togetherness. One man, Equality, defies this ideology and threatens the “perfect” society built by the councilmen. When Equality discovers the word “I”, he explains the word “‘we’ must never be spoken, save by one’s choice and as a second thought”. Rand, with this quote, wants one to understand the collectively as a group is harmful and restricts one’s freedom. The communist society is unequal and suppresses one’s
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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
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The more knowledge we obtain, and the more we use the opportunity we have to learn, the better the world will be able to face challenges and come back from mistakes. This is the theme statement I have come up with to represent Anthem, by Ayn Rand. This book is all about the dark ages of the future, where almost everything is forgotten of our world today. The reason? Those that knew how to perform things like creating electricity, cars, and even running water systems, didn't teach the newer generations
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“We, Equality 7-2521, have discovered a new power of nature. And we have discovered it alone, and we are alone to know it” (52). Within the lackluster equilibrium of his dystopian society, Equality 7-2521 is a surge of electricity pulsing through a copper wire. His vision for the society in which he lives is innovative, yet it is not for others that he conducts his experiments. Ayn Rand conveys that Equality’s primary incentive in the novella Anthem is to unearth his individuality and re-affirm his
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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
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The novel “Anthem” was written by Ayn Rand and was published in 1934. Prior to the year it was published, Russia a communist country was having many issues. luckily for Ayn Rand she escaped the system and moved to the United States of America in 1926 at Manhattan New York. With her writing skills, she became a screen writer, and then became a novelist. “Anthem” highlights what is communism and what the government is fully capable of. In the novel, the city had these rules and controls because they
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