Janice Rand

nothingness? In the novel, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand takes the readers into a dystopian United States and explores the central stations of Objectivism into its third-dimension. Well, what is objectivism? Objectivism is a philosophical system whereby inductive logic is the way to attain objective knowledge and people seek individualism, work with a hand-off policy from the government, and search one’s own pleasure for that is the purpose of life. Rand uses the symbolic phrase, “Who is John Galt?”…

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” This quote was written by George Orwell in his book Animal Farm, one of Orwell’s most famous novels. Throughout history the subject of a distant dystopia has always been explored in many works of literature. The possibility of humanity falling into a bleak and totalitarian society has always fascinated readers. These stories and themes can come to define an author and their legacy as a writer. There is no greater example of…

Anita Desai exhibits a strong inclination towards the existentialist interpretation of the human predicamentin her novels.Chracters are "individuals for whom aloneness alone,is the sole natural condition,aloneness alone the treasure worth treasuring",as Desai once said in an interview.Her novel,Fire on the Mountain revolves around the inner lives of its three protagonists,Nanda Kaul,Raka and Ila Das,who are embodiments of alienation experienced by the individual in a hostile world. Her novel,…

children’s literature for many decades both Louis Lowry and Ayn Rand have not only written works, The Giver and Anthem, that address the dangers of special interest groups encroaching on the education and literacy of children, but also their works address the individualism, collectivism, martyrdom and precision of words. Addressing subjects like collectivism and individualism with children seems like an insurmountable endeavor, but Lowry and Rand show through…

thoughts on Rand’s theory of Rational Ethical Egoism, I’ve learned what my family and I decided to do was for Cooper was necessary. I would agree with her Theory considering the situation we were in when we decided to euthanize Copper. I agree with Rand that in our daily life in any situation that comes our way we should always be using our self-reason to determine what’s best for…

English Midterm Essay Adolf Hitler used fear tactics to control people. Control can be damaging in a society and no society really makes progress with control and oppression being their driving force. Government oppression is a common theme in both Ayn Rand’s Anthem and George Orwell 's 1984. Anthem is set in a society where only the word “WE,” can be used. “I,” in this society, it is known as the Unspeakable Word. The main character, Equality, while he tries to fit in with his society, he…

In Equality’s world, everyone is told that the only way for every individual to live is to serve his “fellow brothers” everyone is equal with everyone else, which means that each person has to be the same as everyone else. Society is controlled to ensure that nobody has the opportunity to stand out as an individual or to think himself as one. The problem is that equality has stood up since he was a kid. When Equality is put into jail and he keeps thinking of a way to escape, he shears The…

Anti-Utopias in Communistic and Capitalistic Societies Through human innovation and discovery, the world on which we live has developed from a molten rock of lava to a societal world were humans are speciesists and have created an anti-utopia. Despite the implications of the term anti-utopia, it is not a world between a utopia and a dystopia, a utopia being a perfect world where everyone is satisfied with the restraints of society and a dystopia being a world of complete despair where all…

During the novella Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality changes his mind and becomes very critical of the leaders in his society by denouncing them in moral terms. At critical ages of Equality’s life he only learned of what his government wanted him to. He did not want to sin, but soon realizes it is the only way to be who he imagines. His society tries to implant, in everyone’s mind that they are all the same, but Equality explores the Unmentionable times discovering the world he lives in. He also…

offer right now. It’s closed off from the rest of the world besides a small outlet into China for trade for without that trade it would fall to ruins. The government in Anthem is its parallel.The novel Anthem is a dystopian society written by Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand wrote Anthem to warn Westerners of the danger of collectivism. Nazi, or communist it didn’t matter. She had a philosophy herself of objectivism, ruling oneself on logic, not emotion.The two countries, North Korea and the dystopian society…