'Technology In Ayn Rand's Anthem'
Ever wondered what the world would be like, if we have no technology and we all acted as one? In the novel, Anthem by Ayn Rand, the world is technology primitive, meaning the people described in novel are living in a world without technology. Anthem portrays a totalitarian world of the future. This implies nature of science, technology, and the conditions for technological progress. Equality 7-2521 has been assigned by the Council of Vocations the job of a street sweeper, because of his intelligence and pride. As that being said, being a street sweeper, Equality 7-2521 goes off and adventures different parts of the town that he is forbidden in going. He is also forbidden to think and study science. “..Which we only found only a hundred years ago, of how to make candles from wax and string; also, how to make glass..” Equality 7-2521 goes to a
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This is because they fear the punishment if they don’t do what they’re told. The conditions for technology progress are slowed down because as said in the novel the “Unmentionable Times” society there wasn’t any cars but they had the correct technology. The leaders of the society thought if people wondered the city they will be smarter and more powerful. Rand implies in the novel that thinking by yourself leads to the technological progress. For example, Equality is by himself when he gets a lightbulb to work but when the whole society was thinking as one they managed to only invent the candle. Another event, was when Equality found the little house on the mountain. That made him smarter because he was being self-sufficient when examining all of the house’s surroundings. The events of this novel establish the view because when he became self-sufficient he became smarter and wiser. He also began learning new things as he went
This is because they fear the punishment if they don’t do what they’re told. The conditions for technology progress are slowed down because as said in the novel the “Unmentionable Times” society there wasn’t any cars but they had the correct technology. The leaders of the society thought if people wondered the city they will be smarter and more powerful. Rand implies in the novel that thinking by yourself leads to the technological progress. For example, Equality is by himself when he gets a lightbulb to work but when the whole society was thinking as one they managed to only invent the candle. Another event, was when Equality found the little house on the mountain. That made him smarter because he was being self-sufficient when examining all of the house’s surroundings. The events of this novel establish the view because when he became self-sufficient he became smarter and wiser. He also began learning new things as he went