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to be. Nobody can make the decision for who you are, you have to shape that. This is like Equality 7-2521, he doesn’t get to be who he wants to be. He is forced to be who they want him to be. He is not himself he is a label. In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 portrays his identity through themes, motifs, and symbols. Equality 7-2521 realizes the significance of his existence only when he comes to understand that one is the center of one’s universe. He also understands that one’s…

The book Anthem is about one of the main characters named Equality 7-2521. Equality 7-2521 is 21yrs old and he vividly explains about his home. Equality home was a burden for him or any other male figure to be tall. However, in his homeland his bones were a curse. The book Anthem is about Equality 7-2521. In his homeland, if a male was more than six feet tall, their bones were considered a curse. Equality unfortunately was cursed. In the palace, there was a placed called Home of the Infants,…

technology, etc. Although “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr and Anthem by Ayn Rand are both pieces of dystopian literature, their portrayal of (love/technology) differs greatly. In the novel Anthem love is different from the novel Harrison Bergeron. In Anthem, Equality and Liberty love is illegal because of the society’s rules. “For men are forbidden to take notice of women and women are forbidden to take notice of men (Rand 38). The quote explains why Equality and Liberty can’t have…

injustice, as a result the world of peace envisioned at first slips away, and a dystopia is born. A dystopia is a world where injustice consumes a society and causes conflicts and harm with the lives of their civilians. The two novels Anthem by Ayn Rand, and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury both depict dystopian societies. Anthem depicts a future based off of collectivist ideologies where everything is predetermined and violence, betrayal, and deception are nearly non-existent. On the other hand,…

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! For some reason, this phrase come to mind when I consider the last PR Publications assignment we completed. After taking a week off for spring break, we dove right in to an in-class assignment that we turn in by the end. Our instructor informed us that we would need to create social media posts and a webpage for the teacher walkout movement. We could choose to support it or discourage it, but we had to have a call to action in our posts. For the…

Individuality and Conformity Individuality consists of one’s own thought and freedom which is not known in these societies and conformity is the social influence which involves a certain belief and or a certain behavior to fit in with a group. Anthem by Ayn Rand and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley believe their societies are a utopia. Both novels are a society without individuality, and solitude is forbidden. Both novels Anthem and Brave New World analyze the conflicts between individuality…

excuse to oppress the people. They do this by taking the idea of equality and turning it against itself. The concept of equality is perverted by using ideals nearly identical to those used in the speech “the soul of the collectivist” in a different Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead. In the speech Ellsworth M. Toohey an architectural critic confesses his plan to make a society similar to the one in the book Anthem. The speech is about how he plans to create it. He says that he was doing this by…

The concerning issue of equality is an extremely complex topic that is difficult to define. After reading four different pieces of literature, we have discovered that each piece has a different view on how to achieve true equality. The first piece of literature that we read was Animal Farm, which displayed an allegory of the Russian Revolution. This novel used animals to symbolize the Russian communist party, and like the Russian party, the animals had a cruel dictator. Over the course of this…

the tower of dystopian novels. From old Victorian novels to the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins dystopian novels have captured the attention of many. From old people to young children the genre entrances the population, and Anthem is no exception. Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem portrays the dystopian genre because citizens conform to uniform expectations, the protagonist questions the existing political and social systems, and the protagonist feels trapped and tries to escape. Equality, who is the…

Anthems are popularly thought of as songs that define a generation; songs that belong in the soundtrack of an era. Tupac, Beyoncé, and Kendrick Lamar are all superstar artists that have conjured numerous anthems to inspire the African American community to continue the fight for freedom and equality. There are, however, countless songs that are constantly overlooked, but serve as effective anthems for change. Vic Mensa, a hip-hop artist from south Chicago, has been a rather vocal activist…