What Are The Themes In Ayn Rand's Alas, Babylon

Almost every person knows someone who has served in a war, whether it may be a sibling, a parent, or a friend. After an individual comes back from their service in a war, he or she usually has changed as a person, either positively, or most of the time negatively. In All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr shows through characters seeing death, characters that are not in combat, and characters that are soldiers in war, that war impacts individuals negatively, despite their backgrounds and differences.

The threat of nuclear warfare has been a fear tactic used multiple times to settle issues between countries. In Pat Frank’s Alas Babylon, Frank focuses on Fort Repose, a small community in rural Florida. Frank centers the time frame on the height of the Cold War between Soviet Russia and the United States. Opening on how connections can save lives and change lives. Randy Bragg and the town of Fort Repose is dealt a lucky hand when Randy’s brother, Mark, a military man tips Randy off to the threat of a nuclear strike. Mark disguises the warning through a telegram telling Randy that Mark’s wife, Helen, and two children, Peyton and Ben Franklin, will be coming down to visit also asking Randy to meet him at the Base Ops McCoy in Orlando at

The future as we imagine it, is to be filled with hi-tech gadgets and gear. Yet we consistently forget about the past and how the past always catches up, where light is gone and equality is a must were no sight of uniqueness is allowed. If that were the case we wouldn’t not be human. “Anthem” by Ayn Rand explains this world where everyone is the same and everyone is told exactly what to do. Equality 7-2521 is the main character of this story and tries to fix this problem. In this story, there is a dystopian protagonist, and a dystopian protagonist is a character that feels trapped and is struggling to escape his/her society. Equality, the dystopian protagonist in “Anthem”, questions the society he lives in by figuring out that being

Would you like it if the government had complete control of you? For example, the government might tell you who you aloud to interact with, or they could tell you what job that you have to go to every single day, and where you are allowed to live. The government should not have the right to control an individual because a person knows what's best for them, such as who they from relationships with, what they do for a living and what their lifestyle looks like.

The 22nd century was known for the dystopian societies. One dystopian society story that caught my interest was anthem. Anthem is a story by Ayn Rand , This story is about a guy named Equality-2521 . Equality lives in a dystopian society where he is controlled and he can only live until he’s 45 years old and he can only live for his brothers. In the society there is no such thing as being yourself there is no such thing as using the word “I”. This society is run by a council this council is made up of three men and two women . This dystopian Society goes to school until 15 and then they get assigned jobs and names ,Equality is different from all his other brothers equality is taller and smarter. Equality is

Being “yourself” would be the biggest sin in the world of Anthem, a book by Ayn Rand, where one citizen, Equality-72521, lives as not one, but among many. By not learning the word “I” at any time in your life, including birth. Equality, however, found a spot currently unknown, and decided to do a crime worthy of death. He hid there every night, and learned all he could secretly for years. He goes to great lengths to learn much no other person really knew, such as electricity, and didn’t tell anyone else about the light bulb as to make sure he could keep on learning, and in the end risked his life to protect what he learned, independently, so he could change who he was and what he knew.

My hands... My spirit... My sky... My forest...This earth is mine...” (Chapter 11 Paragraphs 1-2)

The variety of themes showed in the Anthem novel is Individualism , Rebellion and Confinement. These themes are revealed in many ways . Individualism is revealed when Equality the main character started to identify himself in many ways . For example when equality discover light in the Unmentionable Times tunnel by himself . This proves that Individualism is being implied in the story and helps it progress becomes it helps the main character find out his strengths within his collective society. Likewise Liberty 3-5000 is also discovering herself in Anthem . For Instance when she declares that she loves him for the first time in the forest. This shows that Liberty 3-5000 grasp the concept of being an individual towards the end of the book in

Is dystopian fiction, unremittingly bleak, leaving no room for hope, or is it a positive warning to persuade us to speculate about the world that mankind has created.

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.

Anthem was written in 1961. The book is set in the future in a dystopia where all technology has digressed. The most recent inventions of the protagonist's time is the candle and glass window. The government has complete control and citizens have absolutely zero freedom. Nobody, not even the government, is allowed to say the word “I”; not many people even know that the word exists. Instead, citizens use the word “we” because of an ancient stone with these words engraved on it: “We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever” (Rand 19). The government, or high council, put many rules into place. For example, men can not talk to women, everyone has to agree on everything, and walking somewhere without a purpose is outlawed.

“It is a sin to write this” this is how Ayn Rand starts her book Anthem. In the book Equality is a

Anthem, by Ayn Rand has a major theme of oppression, a problem throughout human history. In the book everybody in the society are extreme followers and take the Councils rules of laws as absolute truth. (The counsel is a small group of people who oversees that the rules are enforced). All civilians seem to follow these rules with little acceptation they do this voluntarily not by force. In the book those few who brake tyrants council, who preach extreme communism, meaning that not one person matters, but only the survival of mankind matters. This means that all humans are equal in everything, and it is, actually looked down upon for trying to be anything more than the group.

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

In life, you are born into societies where various ideas or things are thought to be normal and the customs are already established. The novel Anthem by Ayn Rand has many themes, but what I believe the theme of the novel is, to think for yourself. To think for yourself means to make your own decisions and opinions, without depending on other people. I also think that if you are going to think for yourself you can’t worry about what other people will think of what you believe in. Whether you believe that you should only have school a few days a week or you believe in a certain god, no person should feel ashamed for what they believe in. In today’s society and in the society of Anthem, people don’t think for themselves and they just follow people blindly. In the media, today we see what celebrities are saying, who they like, who they dislike, what they use, what they endorse, and we follow them because we want to be like them. Sometimes you don’t realize that you’re not thinking for yourself, but not being able to think for yourself can make you miserable and that is what Equality 7-2521 realized in Anthem.