The Role Of Children In Ayn Rand's Anthem

Throughout history and especially during the industrial revolution we have seen children work out in factories and fields. Factory owners hired children to work in factories because they were small enough to fit in places that were too tight for a grown adult to fit into and kids were cheaper for factory owners to pay. In the Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem babies are taken away from their birth mothers and put in a home with other children to be raised as a group. In Anthem, Equality 72521 talks of where he was raised, The Home of Infants, and the living conditions he faced. We learn his childhood was spent largely in a sleeping hall of one hundred beds, one peppered with fights with other children and frequent chastisement. From the ages of