The Miracle of Equality 7-2521 “True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one’s true character‚ to be altogether one’s self‚ to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion” (Corliss Lamont). The book Anthem by Ayn Rand‚ takes place in a collective society‚ all independence is eradicated. People can’t choose their name‚ can’t ever be alone‚ and never say the word “I”. They are mindless workers with the same routine everyday‚ until one man realizes the truth to life. The behemoth
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"This is a foul place. They are damned who touch the things of the Unmentionable Times" (Rand 32-33). The unmentionable times‚ Equality’s past and our present‚ is depicted as a terrible period‚ meant to be forgotten due to the near destruction of the Human Race it seemingly caused. The world of Anthemis is extremely technologically inept‚ literally as far back as the Dark Ages‚ using torches and candles for light. Scientific and technological progress in this society is almost non-existent. It is
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The Fountainhead novel‚ movie by Ayn Rand‚ she represents her concerns with the rights of the individual over the demands of society and expounds her belief that genius entitles the superior man to ignore moral and ethical restrictions. However‚ the fountainhead takes place in the United States‚ mostly in New York city during the 1920s and 1930s‚ it describes the lives of two classmates Peter Keating and Howard Roark. Howard Roark who is a fiercely independent innovative architect struggling
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Dear Ayn Rand: Your novella‚ Anthem‚ was a real perception-onset for me. It made me apprehend that it is not always bad to oppose with what other people consider. The novella also made me understand that if you don’t consider what others do you will probably get resolved for it‚ but you just have to stay robust through the hard times. Life is hard and it is seldom not fair. It can hurt sometimes‚ but if you focus on what is within your power to change for the better
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Scholars. When he showed them they all ran from the table that Prometheus placed the box of light bulbs. One member from the World Council of Scholars said “How dare you think that your mind held greater wisdom than the minds of your brothers” (Ayn Rand‚ Anthem‚ page 71). Everyone in this society has to think and act the same. It is a sin to oppose the laws that the World Council
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and traveled into the forest‚ up into the mountains. In the mountains Equality found an abandoned house‚ and inside there was a book and while reading the book he realised he is an individual not a whole like the society he was living in thought ( Anthem Pg 78-105). When Equality left society he sacrificed everything he had‚ but he did this because he knew he was different and was tired of living by the strict rules that must be followed. If equality did not take the sacrifice of going into the forest
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thought (Dictionary.com)." One can tell by this that egoism is not always a negative trait‚ and those with that in their personality are not always a bad influence on the direction of the world. This is shown by the character Prometheus in Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem‚
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“Tonight‚ after more days and trials than we can count‚ we finished building a strange thing‚ from the remains of the Unmentionable Times‚ a box of glass‚ devised to give forth the power of the sky of greater strength than we had ever achieved before (Rand 59).” In this quote‚ it demonstrates how Equality was extraordinarily determined in his work that he achieved. If the world were the same‚ then the world could be more advanced by everybody thinking differently and coming up with new ideas about new
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novella Anthem the author‚ Ayn Rand‚ forges a government based upon a puppet master council that controls the inhabitants of a postwar dystopian world. This council dehumanizes their people from birth with no individualism in the sleeping quarters‚ being locked in the cellar for fighting‚ and indoctrinating “We are nothing and mankind is all” (Rand 21). As a result of the dehumanization‚ technology and scientific advancements halt and anything revolutionary to the society to vanish. Inside Ayn Rand’s
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Does everyone have “ego”? In Anthem the citizens of the city grew up not knowing of this word‚ and in turn its power. They were taught to be a whole‚ rounded up like tagged mules‚ doing assigned work blatantly. In the song “Drones” by Rise Against‚ the lyrics‚“The drones all slave away‚ they’re working overtime. They serve a faceless queen‚ they never question why. Disciples of a God‚ that neither lives nor breathes (I won’t come back!). But we have bills to pay; yeah we have mouths to feed! (I won’t
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