Ayn Rand

Gaining Control “We have broken the laws” pg 1 said Equality 7-2521 in short story Anthem by Ayn Rand. Equality is a man that can see there is more to the world than their utopian community. Equality discovered, and invented things, he has never believe that could be possible. Equality’s world turned around because he began to rebel against everything he ever believed in his community. Equality knew it was a sin to discover things, and he didn’t understand why the council would keep certain…

Writers use different methods to catch a reader 's attention, some can be caught by persuading the reader or audience using reasoning as well as facts towards the argument either positive or negative. Others could be convinced towards a certain argument over someone with authority. Stating the pros and proving them will make the audience agree with them. The audience’s attention could be shown by their reaction to a certain picture or imagine. What that picture could mean could vary and the…

Has there ever been a school where teachers did not let a student ask questions? How about letting students think faster than others? What if this was an everyday occurrence at school? In Anthem by Ayn Rand, this is how every single person is “educated” in school. Out of all the unfair and outrageous laws managed by the government, education has to be one of the worst. Teachers give false information and punish Equality for thinking too fast, the government spreads lies to keep citizens under…

In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality was considered damned by the standards of his society. He asked too many questions at school, was taller than his brothers, was given the job as a street sweeper, and broke the laws of Transgression of Preference. Even though he broke the…

Equality vs. Prometheus Imagine living in a world where everyone has to live under strict rules and have our future and life be chosen for us. In Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, is a dystopia of a future “Dark Age” that might happen if we worshipped the word “We” and collectivism. Through the end of the book, Equality discovers a god, Prometheus, and feels a connection towards him because of many things; the most important are, his gifts to mankind, his actions, and his outcomes. Equality chose…

In my opinion, ethics is one of the most controversial topics that can be approached. According to Kory Floyd, ethics is “a code of morality or a set of ideas about what is right” (30). The issue though, is each person’s code or idea might vary between cultures and individuals (Floyd 30). In the United States, having a population of over 318 million, this variation can be extremely problematic. Thus, to ask if something is ethical or not, all ideas of ethics should be taken into account. This…

The Power of Something That Can’t Be Seen: The Effect of Fear on Our Lives Ray Bradbury shows us, in Fahrenheit 451, a society that is always moving at a very fast pace and do not think they not have time for deep thinking and books. Ray Bradbury wrote this book after World War II, when he saw how our country could go down the wrong path. In this novel, the government hires firemen to burn the books and anyone that is associated with them. The government has put the fear in everyone’s mind of…

Imagine a society and a city where rules are so strict that everyday is the exact same. Everyone's the same. Everything is the same. Everyone and everything relies on equality to live their everyday to day life. In the book “Anthem” by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 envisions his own perfect world without the cities control. Will he include the society he grew up in within the society he envisions? The city seems to rely on these rules and regulations to make sure no one will be…

nevertheless everything else is limited. According to the Journal of Palliative Medicine, patients are motivated to peruse assisted suicide to avoid negative qualities of death where they can no longer control and manage their symptoms and needs. A quote by Ayn Rand states “The Right to the Pursuit of Happiness means man’s right to live for himself, to choose what constitutes his own private, personal, individual happiness and to work for its achievement, so long as he respects the same right in…

individual. However, the status quo of the nature and purpose of government is constantly evolving due to intellectual breakthroughs. Such intellectual breakthroughs are often pioneered by ingenious thinkers, namely philosophers. Friedrich Nietzsche and Ayn Rand are both radical philosophers whose visions run the risk of dismantling the normalcy of society, particularly components of the government. Nietzsche’s philosophical work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Rand’s text, The Virtue of Selfishness…