Ayn Rand

How would you feel if you had no choice how to live? No choice on who to love? In Anthem & “Harrison Bergeron”, the society's were both based on, Equality. Although, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut & Anthem by Ayn Rand are both pieces of dystopian literatures, their portrayal of technology and love, differs greatly. Technology is a thing of the past, present, and as well as the future. It changes everyday. In “Harrison Bergeron”, it's the year 2081, technology has really advanced. “Every…

does not have to be completely selfish or completely selfless. One can be concerned about his brothers without throwing his own desires away. Equality begins to understand this in the end of the novel, but the City does not. In the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand, the City and Equality have extremely different ideas of what society should look like. The City thinks everyone should be equal and do things for the benefit of each other, while Equality believes that everyone should have the freedom to be…

Throughout the novel, Anthem by Ayn Rand, it portrayed a lot of characteristics that relate to libertarianism. Looking back at old assignments, “Libertarianism is a theory of justice which claims that we owe to one another absolute respect for individual liberty rights. They proclaim a doctrine of self-ownership--i.e. the right to use one's body and resources as one sees fit so long as one does not interfere with the rights of others to do the same.” There are a lot of events that happened in…

Ayn Rand’s (1905 – 1982) personal philosophy, Objectivism, was directly impacted by the political influences she was exposed to throughout her upbringing, namely Russian socialism and, as an adult, American capitalism. Objectivism holds that: reality exists as an objective absolute, man is an end to himself and his purpose in life lies within satisfying rational self-interests, and laissez-faire capitalism reigns supreme over any other form of economy. She preaches that one must live a “selfish”…

The old tale of Prometheus is one that is very famous in ancient greek mythology. He was a great god and known as the creator of mankind who stole the fire from Mount Olympus and gave it to mankind. He is the son of Lapetus, and Clymene, a brother of Epimetheus, Atlas, and Menoetius. Prometheus a Titan was a main leader in the battle between the Olympian gods lead by Zeus and the his own group, the Titans. The name of the battle was called the Titanomachy. This battle determined who controlled…

conscience and 'redeem' themselves. The second-rater is willing to do whatever it takes to gain the admiration of other second-raters. He can have no independent feelings, thoughts, judgments, or ideas because these are the functions of the self. As Ayn Rand says, "To say 'I love you' one must first know how to say 'I'." Therefore, only the real egotists have the ability to actually care about and respect other human beings as…

The book, Anthem, by Ayn Rand raises many questions and makes many highly opinionated statements. Such as her clearly insinuating that the philosophy of collectivism is evil, or the many themes of censorship throughout the novella. However, one of the most controversial topics in the book is the promotion of the word “ego”. While many may believe that this wrong, this novel has a positive depiction the word “ego” and that is a good thing. The main character in Anthem begins humble and then…

Ayn Rand’s Anthem gives the readers a look at a dystopian society in which individualism is forgotten and man’s only priority is to serve the greater good. The most common singular pronoun, “I”, is deemed unspeakable as it is thought of as self-centered and egocentric. The Council of Vocations controls all citizens’ lives, determining what they can and cannot do and laying out the rules for society. Rand’s Anthem depicts collectivism and communism, which have been ideas present throughout…

“Treat others how you want to be treated.” This is a quote that I live by and believe that if you live by this, you will be a good person. A good person is one who helps others when they have been knocked down or are hurt. They have good morals and does what’s right in the eyes of most people even if it makes you unpopular. One also helps others who are less fortunate and may not be able to help themselves. In "Compassion and the Individual," Tenzin Gyatzo, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, describes…

In the story Anthem, the characters don’t have original names. They have a name from A-Z and numbers following this format: X-XXXX. Anthem was writing in 1937 by Ayn Rand. She wrote anthem to worn the western civilization about terrible collectivism. Collectivism is where every individual is another and where they think alike. The council are the people who were in charge. They gave equality 7-2521 and his brothers their job for life. Equality 7-2521 knows he different from the rest of them and…