Joshua Leonard

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

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision”-Ayn Rand. Everybody is made equal but no one is free. In anthem there is many rules and controls Equality committed many sins just by being himself. In this essay i’m going to explain why there are so many rules and why they are so strict also what their purpose is and if the society that Equality is creating will have any of the rules his old society had. There are so

Ayn Rand migrated from the Communist U.S.S.R. with a righteous anger. Not only was she as an individual demeaned by lack of a personal identity -- as far as worth and contribution to society, but her gender incurred unjust persecution as well. It seems a trend that Americans enjoy literature that reveals the philosophical or political depravity of our own or other countries, and appropriately so. Art, whether visual or written, has always been a powerful form of critique on society and collective

Equality Should Keep the Old Society’s Rules In the novella Anthem by Ayn Rand, the protagonist Equality escapes his brutal, collectivistic society to build his own. Equality wants to build an utopian society rather than his old dystopian society. In the old society in Anthem the Council of the Scholars are the government and they establish the rules. There are good rules and some unrealistic rules. The Scholars well established rules are, no stealing, and no murder. But the scholars created

Imagine living in a future totalitarian society. Everyone followed a uniform schedule, treated the same way, had orderly assignments and jobs, and welcomed with no freedom. This is how a man witnessed most of his life. Ayn Rand’s novella of Anthem is a story based off a citizen named Equality trying to find his own sacred freedom in a strict orderly society. (Rand 17) Equality and his local brothers lived under a totalitarian government with brutal rules and controls they must’ve followed or they

Objectivism is defined as “an ethical theory that moral good is objectively (based on facts rather than feelings or opinions) real or that moral precepts are objectively valid.” (Webster). Demonstrated by Ayn Rand in the book, The Fountainhead, objectivism seems to most, to be morally wrong, and socially impractical, despite seeming to be a stress-free way of life. In The Fountainhead, Howard Roark does not see relationships as necessary, but as a means to an end. For America to be purely objectivist

Hamlet: Once a Man of Reason In today’s world, the word hero has been portrayed in many different ways. With each member of our society having their own creative imagination on what qualifies as a hero, the definition has changed immensely. Unfortunately, no matter how impeccable a hero may present himself, every fictional hero is indeed human. With that being said, the two share the same deficiencies as every human such as physical disabilities, internal ailments, and mental impairments. Society

during the 1950s and 1960s. The film mainly focuses on the characters Muddy Waters and the Leonard Chess. The film later includes other famous artists such as Chuck Berry, Etta James, and Little Walter. It also briefly shows Mick Jagger, from The Rolling Stones near the end of the film, and occasionally Howlin Wolf and Hubert Sumlin make an appearance. 　　The movie first introduces the main characters. Leonard Chess is portrayed to audience as an ambitious young man. His parents were polish immigrants

Society in a Different World 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

Today hallelujah is a famous song that is most likely known by almost everyone. It took 5 years in the making until it was finally released in 1984 (Stevens). It was originally written and sang by Leonard Cohen. Surprisingly, at the time when Cohen presented this song in one of his albums to his record company, they hated it (Stevens). The reason is because at that time pop was popular among the mainstream music and today hallelujah is considered to be folk and alternative rock, back then this was