Ayn Rand

Is the “innocent” bystander really, in fact, innocent? It is everywhere- in class, at the movies, at parties, with the family and even at the dog park. Bullying is a common occurrence in everyday life. Since bullying is not ethical, who is responsible for taking action against it? According to which philosophical theory are the witnesses responsible to intervene in the harmful situations? From altruism, egoism, and ethical objectivism to utilitarianism, deontology and virtue theory- age old…

In a world such as ours, technology of the future is what drives this world to accomplish more. In the book Anthem, by Ayn Rand, use of technology is very limited. In Anthem, the people that live in the society do not use any technology that contemporary citizens use in the 21st century, would think as any importance to our world. Equality clarifies how there are many jobs that can be assigned, such as a Street Sweeper, but he does not state any job that has to do with the advancement or…

The message of Francisco’s speech from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is that money is good, it symbolizes all of the goods and services the people produce, and it is a tool of exchange in which the people give it value. To begin with, Francisco believes money is good. He states “money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more”. Money is good because it allows the people to get goods and also receive money from the goods they…

According to Anthem, Equality wept when he found out there was a better way to society. He mentally couldn’t believe that the Council had hid so many things from them and preferred it much more if it was a society like today's. Several readers of Ayn Rand’s Anthem believe that Equality would create a society including love, freedom, morals, many emotions, and aspects of life that his past society was missing. His past society was missing a true meaning to life. In Equality’s world, there would…

contrasted with another self or the world. In our society being in egoist is considered wrong. We are taught that having a ‘big ego’ means you are full of yourself. In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand the main character, Prometheus, is an egoist. According to our society, this is a bad thing; according to the world in Ayn Rand’s novel, this is a bad thing. However, being an egoist isn’t always a bad thing. Prometheus is an egoist and despite what people may think, this is a good thing. What is an…

The early to mid 20th century was the age of political change. Communist Russia and Nazi Germany were progressing, and some people of this era were against their revolutionary ideals. Authors such as George Orwell saw the fatal flaws in these systems and wrote to expose them. Orwell sought to warn the world of what it may become by describing a plausible future dystopia in which there was little to no freedom. In 1984, George Orwell uses Winston Smith to portray how there will always be rebels…

own existence” (Rand, pg.412, 1996). Nonetheless, those of which can become destructive; if by whom has a moral deficit; desire to…

In the novel “Anthem”, written by Ayn Rand, the main character, Equality, is an egoist. As he reaches the end of his life as a citizen in a collectivist society, he realizes that the only opinion that matters is his own. Equality’s main motivation is to change his life in ways that makes him happy, and he has every right to that. If society was motivated in this way, then the world would be different, however the change would not be drastic. Equality relies on himself to make a change in his…

Ayn Rand wants people to think that when a person loses their right to be an individual or have natural human things like family and love, life becomes meaningless to the ones taking part in it. The story portrays the suffering the citizens undergo by not being free and how they cannot understand their awful situation. Near the end of the novel it is shown that life gains meaning when people are allowed to be different and given choices to do the things they love. In Equality’s case he loves…

of seven series: Fablehaven, Beyonders, Dragonwatch, Five Kingdoms, Candy Shop War, Pingo, and Spirit Animals. His favorite authors include Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Orson Scott Card, J.K. Rowling, J.D. Salinger, Hemingway, Frank Herbert, Neil Gaiman, Ayn Rand, and George R.R. Martin. He was born on November 8, 1974, in Pomperaug, Connecticut, and grew up in Westlake, California. He later went to college at Brigham Young University, where he led a sketch comedy group called Divine Comedy and served a…