The Last Chapter In Ayn Rand's Anthem

I smiled and kissed her tenderly. Never will I tire of this freedom nor will I take it for granted. Uttering a last goodbye, I started on my quest to fill my city with citizens..

Ayn Rand's Anthem shows us her view of our world united under what seems to be communist rule. For example their view of right and wrong; which Anthem portrays is a system of very strict rules which mainly make sure that everyone is involved in a collective role within the society in this system no one is considered an individual or that they can even think as an individual.

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“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose” (Rand, 95). Anthem is written by American author Ayn Rand about Equality 7-2521 on his quest for happiness. The novel is set in an unspecified time and place in the future. Years after human civilization has gone through a deconstruction in which all knowledge was lost and a new society established with no concept of the individual. “The novel describes the efforts of the main character, Equality 7-2521, to reestablish a sense of personal identity and restore the knowledge of the past by objective scientific inquiry. In doing so, he must face many dangers and privations” (Anthem). Anthem is a dairy of the Equality

The book Anthem by Ayn Rand is about a futuristic community that has many unusual rules compared to today’s society that evolve throughout the book. These rules exist because they are to protect anything bad from happening in their society. They are strict because the Councils who have created the rules want to make sure everything is under their control. Their purpose is to enforce and maintain the people of the community. In Equality’s world that he describes at the end of the story there is most likely not going to be rules and controls that were in his birth home, because Equality doesn’t agree with the Council's’ decisions, he wishes that people should have their own opinion, and Equality has broken the laws.

Summary: In a world where I does not exist, Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000 find themselves viewing one another as unique from the other men and women surrounding them. They are individually significant, even though their society greatly opposes the importance of an individual. They are forbidden from doing anything alone and are not allowed to think for themselves, Equality 7-2521 explores with the science of light and other things. Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000 break many laws, even simple things such as thinking of one another and giving a name to each other. While they do not know it, they have a sense of self in a place where one is forbidden from looking at themselves as individual people with a soul different from any other. When Equality 7-2521 runs away to the forest to avoid further conflict with the law, Liberty 5-3000 follows. In the woods, instead of facing death as they had expected, they find joy and a life worth living.

In the novella, Anthem, author Ayn Rand depicts a futuristic journey of rediscovery by the protagonist, Equality 7-2521, and his struggles against the totalitarian government rule of his society. Throughout the novella, the government shows full manipulation on the life of the people, revealing their moral views and standards. In fact, everyone within the society is compelled to forget significant aspects of humanity. However, when Equality 7-2521 escapes from the oppressive government, he undergoes a series of events that creates contradictions regarding various principles and views he has been taught to follow since childhood.

In Ayn Rand’s dystopian novella Anthem, she shows us a different view on the aftermath of destruction. Many dystopian books have themes where there is no order and it is survival of the fittest, but in Rand’s book she shows us order and obedience. She shows us a society where man and women are stripped of anything that could make them feel individual, even their names. In Anthem, the council wants to create a perfect society where one must depend on others to be successful. However, throughout the book we see Equality slowly break free from the ordinary.

In the novel “Anthem” by Ayn Rand, the main character, Equality 2521, proves his worth, but gets a different reaction than he was hoping for. Is it a dystopia? A dystopia has many definitions, as some believe it’s a society where everything is simply wrong, others believe it’s a society defined by human misery. What is known for sure is, the characteristics of a dystopia are overall close to the same, and Anthem meets most of those characteristics.

Fear, something we all have when we’re born, something that teaches us what is bad and what we shouldn’t do out of not wanting to be in trouble. Even though it’s an obstacle, we hold back, it can create something, either magnificent or terrible. How do other people react to such a creation once released into the world? Do they love it, hate it, or just plain terrified of it?

Anthem, the novel by Ayn Rand portrays a distant dystopia of the future in which a collectivist dictatorship is in place and the word I has vanished. It is in this stark, bleak, landscape devoid of personality or preference in which our hero Equality- 72521( or Prometheus) must live in . Though he struggles to be be himself in a society that demands blind obedience and intense pressure to obey and conform . He nonetheless finds victory through not giving up his passion, his values, or his independence.

Interests don’t matter. Personality doesn’t matter. Free thoughts don’t matter. This is the type of society that Equality 7-2521 is trapped inside of in Ayn Rand’s novella, Anthem. The word “I” is forbidden and individual expression is a sin.

To rule, a ruler needs control. It is the cornerstone of any society with a leader. The society Ayn Rand creates in Anthem is no exception. In Anthem, the rules in the society depicted by Rand exist for control, and were initially created for equality but spiraled out of control into a world built on collectivism and backward teachings. The society Prometheus, or Equality, envisions in the final chapters of the novella would never have any of the rules in his past society, as he realizes through his journey that they are evil and damaging.

The values at risk in Anthem are not merely those of the central luminary; they are the ostensible values of an entire civilization—our own. Our society is founded upon the notion of individual rights; its existence, as Ayn Rand depicts, cannot be conceived on any other grounds. Anthem, Rand’s dystopian novella, is about us, and about what will happen if we do not follow alongside Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000 in their discovery of the importance of individualism.

Anthem overall was a good book it caught my attention. In Anthem the younger people are the ones that are curious about everything that was the past that is hidden and everything that isn't or hasn't yet been discovered. The maze Runner is a good relation to anthem because of the kids being the ones to explore and want to know about everything. Every adult i've ever met has always tried to tell me what to do. The reason young people are attracted to dystopian style books is because they feel that they know more than the adults think they do.