Ayn Rand

“Sharing is caring.” This little quote has been quoted throughout decades. It shows how if a person shares something that is theirs or in their possession with someone else, you trust them because you would not do that with someone else. Ayn Rand expresses this in her book Anthem. She writes about a totalitarian society in which no one is able to learn more than one another. Everyone is the same in her book but one, the protagonist, Equality. In Anthem, the main character “Equality” changes his

People are like snowflakes: each one is different. Every individual has their own qualities that distinguish them from others. Anthem by Ayn Rand features a collectivist community where citizens are obligated to suppress individuality and conform to a homogeneous way of life. This society in which Equality 7-2521 lives in regards the best in him as sinful because they do not think people should be unique in any way. In a similar way, the society in “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut tries

Anthem Essay The book Anthem by Ayn Rand uses multiple techniques to keep the story flowing and interesting for the reader. Those same techniques are also used to express a hidden message that the reader can interpret in their own way. Setting is one of those techniques that plays an important role in the book. The setting helps with character development, unfold the plot, and create suspense. As the story progresses, the reader is able to understand what kind of world the main character, Equality

The Book “Anthem” written Ayn Rand is the tale of a man with many names “Equality-7 2521” to “The Unconquered” to “Prometheus”. He is living in a dystopian world where individualism has been eradicated. Due to the dark times technological advancement and individualism brought, in what seems to be life after an apocalypse they have been limited those to a bare minimum. It took 50 years for the candle to be approved and the word “I” has been banned and punishable by death. In a society where they try

Ayn Rand was a Russian- American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on February 2, 1905. She is known for her very controversial novella showing a fictional, but eerily realistic post-apocalyptic world that has fallen into communism called Anthem. Anthem was published in 1938 and depicts a city that has fallen into now would be considered inhumane acts and laws. The city in the story Anthem features a collectivist dictatorship which holds

Is it necessary for a community to have rules to control its citizens? In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, the city that Equality 7-2521 lives in has numerous rules and controls. Beginning at a young age, men are taught to do the will of their brothers. In this collectivist dictatorship, this means that there is no such thing as Ego, and the will of the group is always valued above the needs of an individual. Equality began to realize that collectivism wasn’t the only way to live when he found the tunnel

In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand there are many character changes, and all of them crucial to the story. With Equality 7-2521 being the biggest. I believe he had the biggest change because he was born in a society where your life is set with no questions asked even if you do not like what you receive. With these regulations, Equality 7-2521 followed them until he had a change of heart. In the first chapter of Anthem Equality says “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think…”

How can a group of individuals work efficiently? A simple question to most, but how is it answered? When it comes to technology, efficiency is a must. In Ayn Rand’s Anthem, the effect of society on the nature of technology is a lack of progression. Technological advancements are hindered by the society because of the individuals working collectively rather than individually. Being that Anthem takes place in a futuristic totalitarian world, its ideals are purely single minded. Usually, totalitarian

The Power of the Moral Ideal in The Fountainhead     The Fountainhead is a novel of gigantic proportions.  It deals with great talent and great mediocrity, with great love and great hatred, with great ambition and equally great complacence.  It unpretentiously chooses to steer clear of the much hyped common man, with his commonplace dreams and aspirations. The theme of The Fountainhead can be summarized in the famous line by the author-"man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress"

The Code “Anthem”, a book written by Ayn Rand is a dystopian novella based on collectivist ideas. The story was written as a warning of communist Russia and other European regions around World War Two. In the society all individual rights are forgotten and forbidden by brainwashing people from birth to death to only think about everyone as one and not as individuals. No laughing, no smiling, and no loving however, like every dystopian story there is a “hero” someone that thinks and acts differently