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Ayn Rand created a fiction novella, Anthem, in which she reveals the notions of freedom, egoism, and individualism. She sets up the main persona in the story, Equality 7-2521, to discover the concealed egoism in the dystopian society where all individuals was identified as equal ones. Throughout the piece, Rand employs an adequate blend of symbolism and allusion, a confessional tone, and change in personal pronouns to clarify her primary purpose of her writing, the individualism. To start off

The novel “Anthem” is a dystopian fiction novel by Ayn Rand. It was written in 1937, and published in 1938 in England. The story of “Anthem” takes place in an unnamed communist like dictatorship based on the future. In the novel, Ayn Rand explores gender and how men and women are portrayed. In the novel “Anthem”, there are many issues and themes. The themes include desire, equality, individuality,and gender. Gender roles are expressed and portrayed between Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000. The

Ayn Rand in the novel Anthem and Plato in the “Allegory of the Cave” assert that Equality 7-2521 and the prisoners lived in a dystopian society where they were prohibited from knowledge. Rand and Plato support their assertion by describing how both of them had knowledge on what they were allowed to know. The people who lived in Equality's society were like prisoners of the cave since knowledge was kept from them too. Rand and Plato's purposes are to inform the reader how having more knowledge gives

Anthem – Ayn Rand Morality is a system of moral conduct or conformity to ideals of right human conduct. In the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand, one system of morality was so destroyed that Equality creates his own system of morals. Throughout Anthem, Equality, the narrator, goes through a series of events that led him to change his view of morality. At the end of Anthem, the collectivist society’s view of morality remains the same while Equality’s view of morality changed to ideals of right human conduct

The world had never looked more beautiful than through the eyes of the ignorant, but the ignorant never stay that way. They will always seek to grow, to learn, and this is never more obvious than in Ayn Rand’s Anthem. In her book, ignorance is the defining feature of her futuristic yet primitive society. Until Equality 7-2521 begins exploring his own individuality the society is stagnant and unchanging; doomed to never move beyond candles and broomsticks. The ideas only an individual, like Equality

Everyone is the same, but everyone wants to be themselves. Throughout “Anthem” everyone in the city were taught to never put themselves before each other. The novel demonstrates this idea of individuality and collectivism through various archetypes. The three archetypes I found were Equality being a loner, Equality going on a journey, and everyone wearing white. Equality stands out from everyone around him, making him an individual. This also makes him the archetype of the loner or outcast. In

Anthem and The Giver have similarities but also have differences. The book Anthem by Ayn Rand is a book where this character Equality 7-2521 is in a world where they have all these rules and are not aloud to do what they want. In the movie The Giver by Phillip Noyce is a movie about a character named Jonas and has to take injections everyday. In the book Anthem Equality 7- 2521 has rules to follow but instead of following them he chooses to do pretty much whatever. He uses a candle to watch time

Ayn Rand wrote the book and story Anthem in 1937, she was a skilled writer as she is a Prometheus Award Hall of Fame inductee. The book Anthem was a clever story used by Rand to represent what she had seen within a communistic society. The rules and control used within the city are in place to prevent individualism, rebellion, and discoveries. In Anthem the story takes place in a distant future in which there is a society with no “I” and no “You”. Due to rules and laws that set control over citizens

The Chosen One’s In the novel Anthem, by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 granted names to his loved one Liberty 5-3000 and to himself. “I have read of a man who lived many thousands of years ago, and of all names in these books, his is the one I wish to bear. He took the light of the gods and he brought it to men, and he taught men to be gods. And he suffered for his deed as all bearers of light must suffer. His name was Prometheus.” (Ayn Rand, from the novel Anthem) Who are Prometheus and Gaea? Prometheus

The character I have chosen from the Ayn Rand novel “Anthem” is Equality 7-2521 7-2521, a street sweeper who lives in a collectivist society, which he tries breaks free of. This character is a kind of misfit because he tries to be separate from the society in which he lives in. In this collectivist society, things not done collectively are considered wrong, and everything is done for their brothers and sisters. Equality 7-2521 can be related to many different inventors and scientists who were way