Courage Revealed In Ayn Rand's Anthem
Equality saw Liberty in a different way then he saw any other person. He felt happy with her and would think about her constantly when they were not together. He also felt fear for her in ways he would not feel for someone else. There is also a great fear that he felt for her that also had to do with him being jealous. “And we thought that we would not let the Golden One be sent to the Palace (Rand 17). All of these feelings revolve around him being in love with her.
Love is not just one feeling that you can explain. It is multiple feelings acting together for someone else that all make up the word love. You can care for something but not fear anything happening to it. You can like your neighbor, but if something happened to him, you would …show more content…
He stands up to them and leaves to live by himself. Throughout history there have been many times where people have rebelled against a higher power. One of the most well-known cases happened in China. One man showed as much courage as Equality did that day when he stood in front of moving tanks.
Fed up by the oppression that the Chinese government showed its citizens, a man decided he has going to stand up and show everyone else not to be afraid to stand up to the Chinese government. He did this without wanting anything out of it except to better other people. “In an act of nonviolent protest, the man, who to this day remains unidentified, calmly walked in front of the procession of tanks” (Storm). With what looked like a normal day while walking to work, the man, with suitcase in hand, walked across the road and stopped in the middle to block the row of tanks from moving forward to suppress protesters. Eventually he was pulled out of the way but not before making a statement.
Both Equality and the Tank Man rebelled against people in higher power in society than them and both could not stop it. They also both made a statement for everyone to see or talk about. Rebellion is not always a bad thing and in anthem it is used as a way to show courage in the same way the tank man had …show more content…
He in the same way had full confidence in the government.
Individual Rights
Individual rights in anthem was very scarce for everyone except the people on top of the power pyramid. For Equality, all he had was the right to live, breath, sleep and eat but even those last two were forced at certain times of the day. In society, many people take advantage of other things they consider individual rights. The biggest individual right that we have that Equality didn’t is the right to be free. “One hundred and fifty years ago today, America ratified the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery throughout the country” (Roberts). Slavery was a very real thing in US history that saw the rights of blacks taken away very similar to that of Equality. Both were whipped if disobedient and both had a routine that involved eat, sleep, work, and anything else their leaders wanted from
Love is not just one feeling that you can explain. It is multiple feelings acting together for someone else that all make up the word love. You can care for something but not fear anything happening to it. You can like your neighbor, but if something happened to him, you would …show more content…
He stands up to them and leaves to live by himself. Throughout history there have been many times where people have rebelled against a higher power. One of the most well-known cases happened in China. One man showed as much courage as Equality did that day when he stood in front of moving tanks.
Fed up by the oppression that the Chinese government showed its citizens, a man decided he has going to stand up and show everyone else not to be afraid to stand up to the Chinese government. He did this without wanting anything out of it except to better other people. “In an act of nonviolent protest, the man, who to this day remains unidentified, calmly walked in front of the procession of tanks” (Storm). With what looked like a normal day while walking to work, the man, with suitcase in hand, walked across the road and stopped in the middle to block the row of tanks from moving forward to suppress protesters. Eventually he was pulled out of the way but not before making a statement.
Both Equality and the Tank Man rebelled against people in higher power in society than them and both could not stop it. They also both made a statement for everyone to see or talk about. Rebellion is not always a bad thing and in anthem it is used as a way to show courage in the same way the tank man had …show more content…
He in the same way had full confidence in the government.
Individual Rights
Individual rights in anthem was very scarce for everyone except the people on top of the power pyramid. For Equality, all he had was the right to live, breath, sleep and eat but even those last two were forced at certain times of the day. In society, many people take advantage of other things they consider individual rights. The biggest individual right that we have that Equality didn’t is the right to be free. “One hundred and fifty years ago today, America ratified the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery throughout the country” (Roberts). Slavery was a very real thing in US history that saw the rights of blacks taken away very similar to that of Equality. Both were whipped if disobedient and both had a routine that involved eat, sleep, work, and anything else their leaders wanted from