Ayn Rand

you do if you were not able to ask too many questions, write your daily experiences down onto a piece of paper, or talk to people that have a different occupation than you? In the dystopian society that is presented in the novel Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, this is precisely what everyday life looks like. I’m sure we have all heard that one person who says, “I only think of others and never put myself first.” Well, in the world that Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000 live in, it is truly a sin…

which is different from their own. Only by achieving this, an individual can see just how significant the role of culture can play in a society. In terms of gathering sources, I decided to use some sources in which I already knew a bit about such as Ayn Rand’s Atlas shrugged. Then by pulling sources related to the topic at hand from resources I already analyzed and read, I was able to find resources that related to culture in some way, such as culture and politics and culture and religion. In…

“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of reality.” This quote by Ayn Rand shows that a group or society can try to pretend that people will stay under control, but in time, a person’s curiosity and independence will shine through. In Anthem, the futuristic society Equality 7-2521 lives in wants to erase the past and its conflicting views, hence a new world is created where all men are expected to live as one in unity, with few new ideas and opinions. Equality’s new society…

In her book, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand uses a fictional story to critique the end result of several commonplace ideologies. The book most closely deals with the ultimate result that stems from a Marxist slogan, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” The world that Rand creates has few differences from reality at its start, but as the story progresses, real world ideologies are taken to the extreme, and societal collapse appears to be imminent. Much of this is…

controlled. Something terrible must have happened in their past because why else would you remove technology and burn all the books? “We must never speak of the times before the Great Rebirth, else we are sentenced to 3 years in corrective punishment” (Rand, 19). Or even make it illegal to talk about. Whatever happened was bad enough to cause them to completely restart. They went from a time with electric lights to a time where they didn't even know what a candle was. They didn't have…

In "The Program" by Suzanne Young uses cultural and physical surroundings to shape phycological and moral traits in Sloane. In this society that is trying to find the "cure" for teen suicide, they are currently destructing the population by taking the memories of suspected suicidal teens. Leaving them with nothing more to hold onto than the blank spaces in their minds and holes in their fragile hearts. The Program is run by the government, force feeding suicidal teens pills that delete their…

In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, International 4-8818 agreed to keep Equality 7-2521’s secret hidden, because not only was he his friend, but he also possessed a trait known as curiosity, and nonetheless. “International 4-8818 and we are friends.” “We know, when we look into each other’s eyes. And when we look thus without words, we both know other things also, strange things for which there are no words, and these things frighten us.” The things that the two know, is that they seek knowledge,…

as humans think we will be forever in control of, but truthfully, we are never fully in control of situations or people and at any instant we can lose power to others. Just as Antigone from Antigone by Sophocles and Equality 7-2521 from Anthem by Ayn Rand struggles to defy power in order to regain it . Antigone was a level headed young woman who was born in a powerful family, but being a women made the power not as “accessible” to her. Her family had just suffered the loss of her brothers…

Anthem by Ayn Rand is the story of Equality 7-2521 living in a primitive, socialist future. Society has become nearly the perfect representation of Marx's ideals. The word “I” no longer exists because the individual no longer exists. “We” is used in place of “I” because life is all about mankind working as a collective unit. Every aspect of life is controlled by a council that makes all the decisions for everyone. Children are raised together in collective housing all their lives, and as a…

paper I will use the views and theories of Ayn Rand on altruism, James Rachels’ view psychological egoism and Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative in order to propose a moral theory on how we ought to behave both individually and as a society. As a frame of reference, I will first present a case on why psychological egoism applies to humans which will tie in with both individual and global morality. In the same way, I will state reasons why I believe Rand was precise in pointing out the fact…