Summary Of Anthem By Ayn Rand

“What is not thought by all men cannot be true” is the common belief in the totalitarian world of Anthem (73). In this post-apocalyptic and altruistic society people can only exists through the service to their brothers, and individual thoughts and actions are shunned upon. Equality 2-72521 is brilliant, using technologies he found from before the “great rebirth” to formulate new conclusions about the virtually unexplored world of his time. With individualism shunned, personal thought is prohibited as well. Idiosyncrasy of anyone is looked upon as evil because it is different from other brother men, so people are bred to be and think the same. Science and technology are advanced upon with the thought of individuals coming up with new hypothesis

In order for a man to have a meaning in his life, He must face and overcome many conflicts. Equalities motivation is to be free in his society and to be different from everyone else. He has the right to be motivated because it's the way to express himself and show what he likes. Anthem is a story of a boys struggle to be free and fight the masses of conformity. Equality believes in curiosity and living a free life.

Many factors contribute to a broken down society. Though many may not see it , once pointed out, all becomes clear. In “Anthem”, the novella by Ayn Rand, societal blindness is caused by a government who limits information and conformation to society. Blindness, not in the sense of not seeing, but not knowing or understanding. With that societal blindness can be cause by a secretive government, which could start dangerous uprisings, or raging wars that could highly impact the community.

Ayn Rand was specifically against all monolithic forms of government and hated totalitarianism. Living in Russia when she was young and fleeing to Crimea for refuge during the Bolshevik Revolution, her disgust for dictators and collectivist societies was enormous. When she was 20 years old, she traveled to New York to visit relatives, assuring the USSR that her stay would be short. Ayn Rand never returned to the Soviet Union for any reason. Her books always discuss or show some form of totalitarianism, this is because of her background and experience. In the very first paragraph of Anthem, totalitarianism is depicted quite well. “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil.” (Rand, 1961, pg. #17). This is an example of censorship, collectivism, and indoctrination. This society teaches and molds everybody from a young age to strive to be the same as everybody else. This thought process is even being explored today, why? Because it always looks like a good idea from the outside, but once your eyes are cleared, when you are looking from the inside, it's usually too late.

Some fall in love with literature early in life and continue a deep passion for it throughout time. I on the other hand cannot say the same. When I began reading like most it was simple works intended for young minds, often those types of reading lack much substance and I lacked interest. Later, I began to enjoy books that the mind to different places. I began to have an interest in dystopian fiction.

Ayn Rand’s assertion in Anthem is that it shows mankind has had their freedom hidden and it exactly what the book says and shows. One of the quotes in Anthem was “We are one in all and all in on. There are no men but only the great we, one, indivisible and forever”. Anthem’s knowledge is skills, information and practical understanding of a subject. Equality remembers that his “Happiness is not the means to an end”. Relevant quote “Happiness is not a ended”. The purpose of knowledge is it causes us to known things. It helps survival, so therefore it’s often useful and pursued. The way how it benefit mankind is that Equality understands that his invention will benefit mankind greatly. Dystopian societies control knowledge by his images and how

By the conclusion of the story Anthem, Equality 7-2521 has changed his mind and become very judgmental of the leaders of his society, denouncing them in many terms. Because of what the leaders made equality do, his actions were very understandable. The way they controlled his life and made him do things he did not want to do were very harsh. I feel as if equalities actions were correct. And here are some reasons why.

“Anthem” was written by Ayn Rand (A Russian-American novelist) and was published in 1938. Ayn Rand had a great understanding of her philosophies and had immense perspectives on issues. Reading the book and after finishing it one will learn that if they do not become an individual in society they will then become a victim of the brainwashed population. One would eventually become synchronized with peer actions/lifestyles instead of developing their own philosophies and thinking for their own well-being.

Imagine living life normally inside of your moderately-sized home and your wealth continuing to soar higher and higher. All of a sudden, that wealth, your home, and your life all come crashing down in one big event-- this event being the Russian Revolution. In the story Anthem by Ayn Rand, the narrator is depicted in first person major.

At the end of the novel, Equality sees nothing wrong with individuality and encourages it. He now even hates the word “we” since he believes that it was “the worship of the word ‘we’” (Rand 102) that brought his old society into submission. Equality also wishes to be called by an individual name, so he chooses the fitting name of Prometheus and gives the future mother of his children the name Gaea (Rand 99). The practices of his society, on the contrary, believe that everyone must be seen equally in each others eyes. There is no worse transgression than to “do or think alone” (Rand 17). While citizens under this government do have names by which they are addressed, they seem more like serial numbers than actual names (for example: Equality

Who am I? Teens struggle with this question in their lives because they are soon to be adults. The book we read to answer this question are Anthem by Ayn Rand, “Emancipation Proclamation,” by Abraham Lincoln, “Prometheus”, from Greek Mythology, “Critical Thinking” audio by Leo, and we did a Socratic Seminar as a class. These items helped me see that I am a passionate and independent person.

Anthem by Ayn Rand is a story about a man who discovers individuality and freedom from the rule and regulations in the society. Equality 7-2521 goes through many struggles to find the meaning of his life. He chooses his own name, Prometheus, as he slowly becomes a himself he realizes that he is different from the rest of his “brothers”. Towards the end of the novel, Prometheus learns the evils of the society and he has started a war against them. “Anthem depicts a world of the future, a society so collectivized that even the word “I” has vanished from the language” ( Rand “Guide to the Writings of Ayn Rand”).

Ayn Rand’s fiction novella about a post-apocalyptic collectivist society uses imagery of light to convey the theme of Individuality. An important part of the story is when Equality 7-2521 harnessed electricity. Equality 7-2521 makes the electric light without anyone else, while in an underground passage, with the only light sparkling in the dark: “…in that moment nothing existed save our two hands over a wire glowing in a black abyss.”(Rand, 1961) Equality 7-2521 is the only person in his dreadful society to think of things other than what he is supposed to. He is the embodiment of individuality in “Anthem”. He struggled throughout the book with doing things by himself, and is accused of it while confronting the world council of scholars. When

The Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 3-4 was a tragic incident where many pro-democracy demonstrators, mostly young college students, were fired upon by Chinese troops and tanks in order to suppress the protest. China’s Government has relentlessly sought to undermine the significance and memory of the crisis. As a result, even public references to any of the events that took place, all media, and protesting is heavily censored. However, never resolving the issues that triggered the rebellion, covering up these events and trying to lessen their importance may result in history repeating itself with a similar massacre. Countries to the west of China are not aware of the specific details of the Tiananmen Square Massacre- much less the protest

Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, is a fictional novel.The world itself is controlled by a certain group of people same as Anthem.She embellishes a society in which the sense of individualism has been extinct. Anthem drives you towards this idea of collectivism. You always need to question the answer, because you’re not sure about what you know whether is true or not. The council enslaves people’s body through collectivism and destroying their mind. The world council has reached the point where they fully control those under its tyrannical power.