Ayn Rand

Anthem is a deception of Ayn Rand’s point of view of her society. Ayn’s country was a collective society, where the council chooses how you live your life. This society worshiped the word “WE” because no one believes in individuality and how everyone is equal. In this Novella, Rand illustrates powerful symbolism and diction in order to zealously assert that collectivist society makes people lose sight of their individuality and their future. Rand expresses the word symbolism to interact a word…

Individualism advocates that interests of the individual should achieve precedence over the state or a social group.Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires and so value independence and self-reliance. Ayn Rand, a Russian-American novelist,a champion of individual rights , in her celebrated works Anthem and The Fountainhead upholds the cause of Individualism manifested in characters like Equality 7-2521,International 4-8818,Liberty 5-3000 and Howard Roark. The bloody…

Defiance of societal norms Ayn Rand and Ray Bradbury’s protagonists demonstrate the act of rebellion when they defy and break away from their society in the search for knowledge and freedom. To begin, Ray Bradbury’s main character, Montag, strived to live in a society with no restrictions that would welcome his curiosity. Similarly, like Ayn Rand 's leading character in Anthem, Equality 7-2521, who wanted to be apart of a society that would welcome his creativity and willingness to learn. Both…

Anthem The Isolated Land In Anthem the reason why they have so many rules, and the higher-ups are in full authority and the citizens have no say in anything is because the author, Ayn Rand, lived through these experiences and wrote about them in a fictional way. She was born in Russia on February 5th, 1905. During the early 1900’s Russia was not the same of how it is today. “Nothing about modern Russia is communist.” (Francis, Is Russia a democratic or communist country?) Back in 1905,…

his perfect world where he wants individualism and doesn’t like living in a strict society in the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand. Except in his collectivist society everyone is bound by rules to protect their general safety. Everyone must be the same so there's no conflict. Many rules and controls can ruin a person, like it ruined Equalities perspective on his collective community. Ayn Rand shows the importance of rules through the dystopian society. In Equality 7-2521 collectivist society rules are…

Collectivism vs Individualism The theme that collectivism, a political ideology, is exploited more than individualism is conveyed throughout the books, 1984 by George Orwell and Anthem by Ayn Rand; This is displayed by the dominance and control that the elite superior have over their societies. In the novel, 1984, by George Orwell, Orwell conveys dominance through the control “The Party” and “Big Brother” have in Oceania. They manipulate the population to the world they want them to live…

today. In the United States and other individualist countries, we embrace our differences among one another and value people’s creativity and intelligence. Equality in Ayn Rand’s novel, Anthem, excludes himself from his collectivist society in order to evaluate his own beliefs and needs. In collectivist societies, such as the one Ayn Rand depicts, the well-being of the group over an individual’s desires are emphasized. An example of this is when Equality is happy after his encounter with the…

Turning a good book into a great book is a pressing task, and Ayn Rand, the author of Anthem, wrote a great novel. Everything from the storyline, to the word choice was carefully chosen. Although some ideas presented in this book are far fetched, there are still many ideas that tie Anthem to the real world. The most prominent connections to today are the similarities to some quotes and the Bible and some quotes to patriotic pieces (ex. National Anthem, Pledge of Allegiance). The quote I found…

fails to realize his reality and his limitations, and he ends up paying the price. The narrator is determined to soar as “men were born to” (pg 70), and looks loathingly at all the conformity around him. He doesn’t even bother writing the story for Ayn Rand, although somehow believing that he has the competition in the bag. He is soaring too close to the sun: he is far from a lone wolf surrounded…

Incinerating Books: Destroys Knowledge Ray Bradbury, gives us a story, Fahrenheit 451, in which people are under harsh government rule that bands them from reading books. In the novel, everyone seems to have a distinct view on how books should be taken care of. They are either completely against the idea of books, or secretly for them. One particular character finds himself stick in the middle. This novel was written at the end of World War 2. During this time, Ray Bradbury watched as the world…