Ayn Rand

way). Prejudice has a heavy impact on the ones to who it is directed at; it shows the ignorance of the person displaying the prejudice. Yes, I believe prejudice can be lessened, but I it will never be eliminated. First off, I would like to quote Ayn Rand on racism: “[Racism] is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s lineage – the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.…

makes a bold statement here, one that the book The Fountainhead can help overturn. One of the central ideas that is celebrated continuously throughout The Fountainhead is that of individualism. The celebration of being your own person is probably Ayn Rand's most dominant message in this novel. When Ellsworth Toohey confronts Roark and asks what…

Anthem, by Ayn Rand, is set in an Anti-Utopian society where the occupants of the world do not have or know about first person pronouns. Set in a distant future, they have lost all knowledge of modern luxuries; including electricity, cars, and machines. They do not have family units of any sort, and have been raised in a way that they do not think or do for themselves, but for everyone. The main character’s name is Equality, a 21 year old male who works as a street sweeper in his community. But…

“Anthem”, a timeless novella written by Ayn Rand depicts the struggle one faces when subjugated in a dystopian society. In a starving civilization, when the hunger for greatness yearns in Equality’s soul, the consequences that ensue will be tremendous. This aforementioned, motivation compels Equality towards risky endeavors that ultimately define his concept of self. Albeit this conceptual idea is forbidden, Equality dares to challenge it by his creation of the light bulb. Equality’s prowess…

Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, portrays a totalitarian world of the future that is technologically primitive. A totalitarian government is a political authority that exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life. In this book, Equality 7-2521 and the society he lived in, are controlled by the World Council that uses the most basic forms of technology, such as candles instead of electricity. Enslaved to serve others, they were not allowed independent thinking nor did they…

Education was the power to the future as Equality and Douglass thought, but education was not always the easiest for some to get with how the society was. The society did not like the idea of individuality, which took away many freedoms of citizens. In Ayn Rand’s novel, Anthem, and Frederick Douglass, “Learning to Read and Write,” the thought of individuality was never spoken of, and education was limited to certain type of people. Education was a big part of Equality and Frederick Douglass…

“But money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires”( Ayn Rand; The Atlas Shrugged). In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby money and love are intertwined in almost every way. Fitzgerald writes about the distinction between old money and new money- represented in this novel by Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lived in West Egg, a…

By the end of the story, Equality 7-2521 has changed his mind and become very critical of the leaders of his society, denouncing them in moral terms. Do you think he is correct to do so? Why or why not? In the story Anthem, by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 is growing away from the life he was brought up living like, now he’s starting to figure out what life really is. He is growing farther away from the morals he was taught as a young boy. Equality will meet a girl in the story and they will…

Ayn Rand’s perspective in his book ‘Anthem’ regards humans as beings who have an inviolable right to independence and freedom for themselves, as it is derived from their very nature, but shows how when you take it all away it detriments the society’s progression as a whole along with personal satisfaction and joy. Her claim in the book is “that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is…

If anybody could imagine the worst possible government it would be the one in the book Anthem by Ayn Rand. The genre of this book is fictional. This book takes place in the future and the main character is Equality. The government thinks that are time right now is bad. So in the book which takes place in the future they burn all the stuff they find from are time. In their time they are controlled by their government so they can’t have like any freedom at all. It’s imperative that the government…