In Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem, the world she describes has each freedom taken from the characters and all they have is hardship and hard work for all their fellow brothers in the cities. Forced to follow the world council's rules, Equality 7-2521 tries to fit in with his fellow brothers, but when finding a tunnel from the unmentionable times he fails to follow the rules of his brother men and creates a great gift to man before getting run out of the city to the uncharted and unexplored forest. A marxist reading of this novel includes elements that deprive the characters of their complete freedom since birth. They cannot choose where to work, the language they use is restrictive, and talking to other classes when not in the social hall is unacceptable.Ayn
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He tells us that he is not to be alone or, use the candle, and even be writing for it is a law not to do these things in the world he lives in(Anthem 1). Their is a supreme world council that everyone in the world vote on, they select their favorite city councils and every one must follow their rules. Their main rule is “ We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever” Everyone does for everyone else not themselves(Anthem 19). You do not get your freedom since birth and then until you die. You live in the house the councils give you and you are to be at the places they say at the time they give you no matter what. They give you the job and you do your job all the time. When you are born you go to a children's school where you live and learn until you are 15, then you are given a job and you go to training and work the rest of your …show more content…
Ayn Rand was kind of talking about the way she was forced to live when she was in Russia. The socialist Russia was know to be like this novel Anthem in many ways, were deprived of property, privacy, and your own ideas( Soviet 1). The characters of the book was also deprived of these things like in the paragraphs before, they had no choice in what they wanted to do. The house they lived in was chosen all their lives from the children's house then to their schooling house and then up to the work/life house. The characters jobs where pick by the world council which in Russia's case the prime leader, and they often did not like what they got. Even so they worked in what they were given or they would be punished from a short time is jail or a correctional center or all the way up to death if the crime is bad enough. In this novel they also were not allowed to love or like anyone else over others, even when breeding they had a mate picked out just for the occasion then sent apart again , I am unsure about this in russia but if their government wanted to it would be
He tells us that he is not to be alone or, use the candle, and even be writing for it is a law not to do these things in the world he lives in(Anthem 1). Their is a supreme world council that everyone in the world vote on, they select their favorite city councils and every one must follow their rules. Their main rule is “ We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever” Everyone does for everyone else not themselves(Anthem 19). You do not get your freedom since birth and then until you die. You live in the house the councils give you and you are to be at the places they say at the time they give you no matter what. They give you the job and you do your job all the time. When you are born you go to a children's school where you live and learn until you are 15, then you are given a job and you go to training and work the rest of your …show more content…
Ayn Rand was kind of talking about the way she was forced to live when she was in Russia. The socialist Russia was know to be like this novel Anthem in many ways, were deprived of property, privacy, and your own ideas( Soviet 1). The characters of the book was also deprived of these things like in the paragraphs before, they had no choice in what they wanted to do. The house they lived in was chosen all their lives from the children's house then to their schooling house and then up to the work/life house. The characters jobs where pick by the world council which in Russia's case the prime leader, and they often did not like what they got. Even so they worked in what they were given or they would be punished from a short time is jail or a correctional center or all the way up to death if the crime is bad enough. In this novel they also were not allowed to love or like anyone else over others, even when breeding they had a mate picked out just for the occasion then sent apart again , I am unsure about this in russia but if their government wanted to it would be