Ayn Rand

of literature, which can appeal to young adults more these days. A type of literature that is sullen, yet enticing, and gives young adults the sense of true equality, and what the lack independence can be like. The Giver (Lois Lowry) and Anthem (Ayn Rand), are both great examples of dystopian literature, and appeal to the minds of young adults through giving a sense of what true equality is like, providing interesting plots and characters, and bringing about unpleasant behavior. What is common…

they were ordered to be. Equality always said he was different and smart and strong, he also said that men have never defied the councils but so far as to escape to any place they were ordered to be. In Aaron Weihnachts article “The Meaning of ‘I’ in Ayn Rand’s Anthem,” Weinacht says, The Councils are convinced that the individual as such is an evil, and that people must be trained to think of themselves only as members of a society and as subordinate to the needs of that society. (Weinacht 175)…

“It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down on paper no others can see” (17). In the fictional novel Anthem, by Ayn Rand, the character Equality 7-2521 has the journey of a lifetime, during his journey he discovers that things are more important following the laws. Throughout the course of the text, the theme of Government/Laws changes and develops in many ways in Equality's mind. Such as how in the beginning of the novel Equality believed that it…

“wow”. There are many reasons why teens love dystopian stories or movie that make them want to see what it is all about and how they can match it to the real world. In the first place, one of the dystopian stories that Teens have read is Anthem by Ayn Rand. It’s a story about a man named equality 7-2521 who want to be a person who doesn’t want to be told what to do and wants to break the rules. Most teens can relate to Anthem because they feel like they are in a dystopian society because they…

which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages”, said Ayn Rand. This quote means that the word “we” was forced upon the men to use. After a while they don’t think about what it means or how it is affecting them. It becomes normal and they won’t even see how it is destroying their own society around them.…

Karl Marx and Ayn Rand are two of the most recognizable philosophers of the modern era. They both had extremely differing views on how money should be used and what money is good for. Ayn Rand, famous for her books Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, has a strong belief that money is not a force for evil, but a force for good and change. Karl Marx, on the other hand, had a very underhanded view of money and its effectiveness as a motivator. He believed that money could only temporarily…

At the end of his journey, he reaches his ultimate goal and finds the word he was searching for the whole time, “I”. In Anthem, Ayn Rand shows the importance of individuality through Equality…

different emotions. Individualism is the main thing in life that each person needs, being equal does not determine a person's identity. If people were equal then a person would have to be another person not himself. As we read the book “Anthem the author Ayn Rand has a purpose for us through the book. An Tang tells us that individuality has been eliminated in the book taking away “I” and replacing it by “We”. Love, freedom, and independence is the most important in most of the people's lives,…

Exhibiting Ayn Rand’s voice the influential piece The Fountainhead, expresses the views Rand wanted shared. Ayn Rand, born in Russia in 1905, lived a normal childhood until Bolshevik soldiers took over her father’s store during the Russian Civil War forcing her family into poverty. The sudden change in lifestyle led to Rand developing strong feelings about the government’s involvement in people’s livelihoods. Rand continued to create new political, social and religious beliefs that led to her…

memories that later end up helping him. Anthem is about a man who finds his own place and he ends up falling for a girl and learns freedom for the first time to be actually free. In these two stories Anthem by Ayn Rand and The Giver by Lois Lowry have the same theme in the two stories. Anthem by Ayn Rand is a book about a perfect society. Then Equality breaks the rules and he doesn't tell noone when he came back late. So he got sent to prison for not telling where he was. He broke out of prison…