Ayn Rind's Anthem Analysis

Copulation, formation, and gestation, are the stages needed to create an entirely original individual. Inside the mother’s womb, the fetus is holds boundless potential. All men are created equal, but not all men are treated equal. As soon as the baby pops out, it is shackled and branded with labels of sex, religion, race, region, labels that cast babies into the minority or the majority just after birth. The baby then grows up into a world where it may discriminated against, shunned away, treated unequally. Where does the small minority population of a country go to protect their rights when the majority rules the country? The government should be an elected diverse group of individuals who can try to equally represent the country as a whole, a supreme court of diversity. Inalienable rights are present at birth for every individual, and government has a responsibility to protect these rights for everyone. These inalienable rights according to the Declaration of Independence are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Ayn Rind claims in her novel, Anthem, that individuals can achieve all these rights by themselves with no need for government. She believes that each individual has their own abilities and should be free to express them, so a government that believes everyone is equal is in essence tyrannical. A high functioning idealistic society …show more content…
I shouldn’t have to walk in stores with my hands in my pockets. I shouldn’t have to worry when I see a police officer walk by me. I shouldn’t have to see white people cross the street when I’m on my morning jog. I shouldn’t have to hear my uncle’s story when he was only 19 (two years older than me) about almost getting shot at Jack in the Box by the police as they held him at gunpoint yelling, “Get out of the f***ing car” because they thought the three black teens were robbing the restaurant even though they were just getting their