Key Aspects Of True Individuality In Ayn Rand's Anthem

The author in many points of this book make Liberty seems selfish. Especially when Equality and Liberty find a house. Equality explores the house while Liberty lavishes all about herself. She looks in the mirror

The novel of Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, contributes to controversial subjects in society that are still relevant today. Some issues addressed by Rand in her novel include: equality, social hierarchy, individuality, and government. Throughout the duration of reading Anthem the issues in which Rand makes relevant are not obvious, but more so discussed through conflicts and situations that the main character, Equality 7-2521, encounters. Although many of the altercations that present social issues are provided by either other characters singlehandedly or by a group of the characters in alliance, some of the main issues that arise in this novel are presented within the main character himself.

Anthem, by Ayn Rand, is a very unique novel. It encircles individualism and makes the reader think of how people can conform to society and do as they are told without knowing the consequences and results of their decisions. Also, it teaches the importance of self expression and the freedom that comes along with being your own person and having the power to choose what path to take in life. Figurative language is used often in this book and in a variety of quotes that have great importance to the theme, plot, and conflict of the novel.

Everyone is the same, but everyone wants to be themselves. Throughout “Anthem” everyone in the city were taught to never put themselves before each other. The novel demonstrates this idea of individuality and collectivism through various archetypes. The three archetypes I found were Equality being a loner, Equality going on a journey, and everyone wearing white.

You are your own human being. But in Anthem by Ayn Rand, you have no individuality. In the nightmarish society Equality 7-2521 is born into, individuality is a crime. “We were born with a curse. It has always driven us to thoughts which are forbidden. It has always given us wishes which men may not wish. We know that we are evil, but there is no power or will in us to stop it” (Rand-18). Equality 7-2521 refers to himself using the first person plural "we" and not the first person singular "I." The use of language like this was often confusing to me, but must be understood if the book's meaning is to be clear. The use of the plural rather than the singular self-reference, goes to the heart of the book's meaning.

Set in a dystopian society in the future, the novella Anthem written by Ayn Rand is all about being a collective society which doesn’t believe in individualism. Ayn Rand constructs a society in which individualism is a transgression. The government enforces the idea of collectivism to the society. They believe that in the human race each person is not single. The protagonist, Equality 7-2521 wants to be an independent person. He wants to be free. As stated in the novel, “To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.” This statement means that in order to be successful, he has to be his own person. As the novel goes on Equality 7-2521 learns to be an independent man and frees himself from the society which forces collectivism.

Have you ever thought of living in a place where everyone is the same and no one is different? Boring, right. In the book Anthem, Ayn Rand fully expresses her thoughts about the role of individualism and society. Anthem is a dystopian novella, written in 1937 and published in England in 1938. The book is about a society, in which there is no “I” and only “we” is allowed. The dictatorship of Anthem tries to keep the members of society brainwashed by focusing on the importance of obedience and equality which justifies restricting people from pursuing individual freedom and limiting their knowledge and vocabulary. Anthem is a critique of the political movements of Fascism and Communism in Europe during the 1930’s

Individuality, a thing we all take for granted, but in a collectivist society, individuality is banned in all forms and is enforced with torture and execution in the name of “brotherly love”. In the novella Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, all men are bound to the society and held captive by the government’s beliefs. The Home of Scholars is responsible for all scientific discoveries. A new act is preventing them from releasing their findings into the society. Equality also dabbles in science, and he knows that this is a transgression. Equality wishes only to study the clockwork of the world, and to be accepted into The Home of Scholars. He brings his invention of a light to the council, but is turned down because his technological advancement

Chapter 8 through the end of Anthem by Ayn Rand brings resolution to conflict of the book and fully develops motif into theme. The main conflict in this book is without a doubt conformity versus individuality. This conflict is mainly exhibited by the main character Equality 7-2527 but is designed in such a way that it represents the conformity of all individuals in a society and the lack of thinking for one’s self as a result. Chapter 8 in Anthem represents a drastic shift towards resolution in this conflict because it is during this time that Equality begins to act on his beliefs rather than just think them. Up to this point, Equality has clearly defied the laws of the described society in Anthem by pursuing self interest which may be

Anthem Chapters 1-3 Theme Outline Topic Choice: Equality Theme Statement: Ann Rand used equality in her book, Anthem, to show that being the same may seem nice, but it’ll cost us our identity. III. Character-

In Anthem, a novel by Ayn Rand, depicts a dystopian society where people are categorized into groups and everyone is opposed to individuality. The individuality of ,the main character, Equality 7-2521 and his intrusiveness made him seen as an outcast by society and the council, which is seen through the selection of themes, characterization, major conflicts, and point of view.

I connect this book to my life because Equality wanted changed his life and do what he likes to do, and sometimes we are afraid of what other people is going to think about us, and we do not live our own lives for being afraid of what other people is going to think about us.

Is a man better off conforming with evil or escaping from chains that hold him from being an individual? In the novel, Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, the narrator lives in a dystopian population where people must refer to themselves in first person as the great “WE”, because individuality is the prominent sin. The story is written as journal entries that ultimately showed the narrator’s change of emotion, changing his ordinary course of being collective. The narrator starts out the story by saying, “It is a sin to write this” (17). Throughout the story, Anthem, the protagonist, Equality 7-2521, changes his thoughts about his society, and the distinction of his morals. Equality 7-2521 discovers things from the “Unmentionable Times”, (times of the past before everything was forcefully collective in the story’s setting) that allow him to realize why his thoughts about happiness were indeed true. Equality 7-2521’s eventual assessment of his sin is correct because he achieves the realization that individuality is essential to the continuation of mankind, and cannot simply be removed from a person’s life.

The writing of the author’s work depicts the author’s purpose in the novel. With the tragic society that Equality 7-2521 survives in, it not only proclaims the major conflicts in the story, but also passes along Ayn Rand’s writing on how it contributes to expressing the conflicts even further. The prime conflict is individualism itself in a world that doesn’t follow the philosophy of one’s attributions to be upheld. It doesn’t exist because of a society that sways the course of people’s lives, coming in the way to maintain an atmosphere with no higher power than another. "We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever."(Rand, 1) This is shown in the novel because Equality 7-2521 cannot go ahead with what he wants to have for himself in life which is to be in the  Home of the Scholars but instead is assigned to become a Home Sweeper. Moreover, the style that Ayn Rand uses in her writing gives the readers the better awareness of how strict the society is that not even the narrator can speak and refer about himself. It is a sin for anyone to fall in love and choose their own mate as Equality 7-2521 wants and des with Liberty 5-3000. He went to prison for writing, doing scientific experiments inside a hidden tunnel, falling in love and most of all presenting to the council an invention that doesn’t exist in a world without advanced technology. The manner that she uses helps to spread across the message about a society that

Rand’s colorful descriptions serve to highlight how much better Equality’s life is when he chooses how to live it. Equality, having lived in a society valuing sameness, knew not of being different or having new experiences; everything was to be as uniform as possible. The sleeping halls in the House of the Infants were “white and clean and bare of all things save one hundred beds,” along with the halls in the House of the Students (20). The stark blankness of this description makes one feel boxed in, just another gear in the cog that is society. Through this description of a monochromatic, robotic conformity, Rand illustrates a collective society few desire. By contrast, when Equality is out in the forest, Rand uses powerful colors and bright descriptions to allow the reader to observe to what degree Equality’s life has improved. While the images drawn before his escape were simply utilitarian, literal and devoid of life, after his escape, everything is vivid. Equality wakes up, and sees leaves that