Anthem Theme Essay This wonderfully crafted novel‚ Anthem by: Ayn Rand suggested many ideas concerning how effective and “perfect” utopian societies are. In the story our protagonist‚ equality‚ lives in a utopian society in the future however the societies technology isn’t very futuristic. All of what we have know has been stripped from the society to the point where they don’t have electricity and they use candles for light and primitive ways of farming instead of more productive ways to mass
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The Cop and the Anthem This short story written by O. Henry and published in 1904 follows a man‚ named Soapy‚ through a day in his life near the beginning of winter. The goal‚ find a place to live for the winter. The man is homeless‚ knowing that shelter for the winter is a must or the harsh cold will likely kill him. A plan starts formulating that involves getting arrested so that winter can be spent locked in an island prison on Blackwell Island‚ NY. Allowing him to have a nice warm bed‚ three
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Mrs. Logic’s Message Six feet was too tall: Equality 7-2521 stood head and shoulders above the crowd and his brothers in society looked down on him because of it. In the novella Anthem‚ author Ayn Rand explores the dangers of a Collectivist society and the freedom that comes with escaping such a place as she chronicles the life of her main character‚ Equality. Part of Rand’s motivation for writing her novella was her desire to further develop the philosophy that she created that is known as Objectivism
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Ayn Rand’s Anthem discusses many controversial ideas throughout the book. Often times the ideas shown are extreme examples and often polar opposites. Most often the ideas used by Rand can be perceived as one is completely bad and the other good. One of the best examples of this is the extremes of caring only for the whole and the opposite of caring only for the self. Rand has extreme ideas of both of these and expresses them often in Anthem. These two ideas are the backbone for the whole story and
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Anthem is a story of man’s struggle to be free and to fight the masses of conformity. It tells of human nature and the want to gain all the knowledge that one could possibly attain. Man loses his safe haven and his security when he lets this lust for knowledge overpower him and lets it be seen by others. He becomes vulnerable Like Johann Faust‚ Prometheus sells his life for wisdom. Unlike Faust‚ however‚ Prometheus is expelled from his society but gains his freedom of individuality and his
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English II February 13‚ 2015 Anthem a dystopian world Why is Anthem a dystopian world? A dystopian world is a world in which an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad‚ typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem demonstrates dystopian novels because the citizens of the society worship a figurehead or concept‚ citizens have fear of the outside world‚ and the natural world is banished and distrusted. Anthem society demonstrates that they
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National Anthem The National Anthem is a familiar tune to everybody. It is known as the Star Spangled Banner. Today‚ the American National anthem is sung before many different events. Some of those events include sporting events and presidential campaigns. The Star Spangled Banner is also notorious for its confusing and almost impossible to sing lyrics. The Star Spangled Banner was written by a second rate lawyer named Francis Scott Key. During the war of 1812 Francis Scott Key was taken hostage
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Is it right to force someone to stand for National Anthem? I’m 21 year old. I’m proud of my Country and proud of our Constitution. I don’t need the Supreme Court to tell me to stand for National Anthem. I don’t need the Supreme Court to mandate that where the National Anthem should be played‚ where it should be sung‚ how it should be sung. You can’t force people to be patriotic; you can’t force people to respect Flag. Respect is earned it’s never mandated. It is from within and need not be dictated
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Anthem Ayn Rand met her expectations‚ and along with everyone else. By writing this speculative fiction she has pointed out how people want others to be in the world‚ but in a more dramatic tense. As Thomas Jefferson said‚ ¨All men are created equal¨. They may be created equal when they are born‚ but some strive to do great things while others wait. We are our own individual. Choices made are up to us not others. We are all created different‚ and meant to be different. That is the whole meaning
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Anthem by Ayn Rand is a political satire that makes one appreciate how fortunate the citizens of a country with so many freedoms‚ like America‚ are. Freedoms to choose one’s own destiny and explore the untouched frontiers of the scientific world are gifts that should never be‚ but often are‚ taken for granted. Rand’s bold novel that pokes fun at the stringent laws of communism reveals that her own political stance would be greatly supported by the first and second amendments and the policies regarding
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