Leonard Peikoff

Have you ever felt controlled by someone? Equality 7-2521 and his brothers have felt controlled by the government of their society. In Ayn Rand's Novel, Anthem, the individual does not have very much power. The individual is not allowed to express himself, and is punished on account of expression, which is why the individual lacks potential and capability. First, Expression is not allowed which is one of the reason that the individual falls short when it comes to power. Equality 7-2521 is…

In the book Anthem, by Ayn Rand, everyone is supposedly equal. Life is the same for everyone on a day to day basis. This book is about life in a dystopian society, and the life of Equality 7- 2521. Equality is one of many and is seen just as equal as everybody else. He soon realizes that he wants to learn new things and wants to be different. Once he discovers a tunnel and electricity, he keeps it to himself until he shares the information with the world council of scholars. After they reject…

In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality renounce his relationships, reputation, and citizenship in order to achieve wisdom, freedom, and individuality. His determination illustrated that immense sacrifice is necessary to stand up for individual beliefs and to attain happiness. When he left his community, Equality gave up his friendly relations. Left behind were those that he worked with such as International, one of Equality’s best friends, and Union, who was familiar to Equality even though…

The song, “Viva la Vida”, by the British band Coldplay represents the beginning of the story, Anthem, by Ayn Rand and protagonist Equality 7-2521’s hopes to become a Scholar and the misery he faces with being chosen as a Street Sweeper. In the song, Equality says that everyone is else is equal besides “we, Equality 7-2521, who were born with a curse” (20). By aspiring to become a Scholar when he is fifteen, this future rebel desires to break his sui generis curse and start a new life. He…

Anthem In the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand, the protagonist Equality is far from similar to his fellow brothers. The society in this setting wants everyone to believe that being the least bit divergent, the least bit uncommon is shameful. Throughout the novel Equality takes notice of the differences from him and his peers. At the Home of the Students Equality stood out for being too tall, too smart, asking to many questions, and daring to get into fights with his brothers. Equality could not…

Ayn Rand had written a story called Anthem as her way to warn that depending on others will be our downfall, but I disagree. Her ethical egoism outlooks on life is what drives her to believe that man should be self reliant, using others makes you a “looter,” and accusing conservatives of being, “Futile, impotent, and culturally dead,” (Ayn Rand’s Long Journey to the Heart of American Politics, paragraph 7). This idea is, to me, flawed because this country and it’s developments have come from…

‘’When there is, there is a way’’ The novel, Anthem, published in 1938 by Ayn Rand is set in the future when society is a communal dictatorship. Rand wrote this novel during the great purge in Russia. Anthem tells us our individuality is crucial. Ayn Rand wanted to show us how important that individuality is and what life can become without it. You may find yourself asking, ‘’what is society exactly about’’? This society basically enslaves the mind. It is illegal for them to do such actions.…

“It was when I read the first of the book I found In my house, that I saw the word I”(98). It was that moment that Equality 7-2521 realized that he knew and discovered freedom and the word “I”, Also characters in Ayn Rand’s Anthem and Kurt Vonnegut's “Harrison Bergeron” set their freedom and escape by going to journey and figuring out thing that they don't know about their society.The ways that their dystopian societies affected them on their escape is that first of all, their society is really…

Ayn Rand’s Anthem is a rebuttal of collectivism. The ideology of collectivism is heavily criticized in Rand’s novella where the oppression of an individual is summarized in the following statement, “What is not done collectively cannot be good” (Rand 73). Collectivity robs the people of their individuality and uniqueness, attributes that are disregarded in Anthem. The need for everything to be done collectively in order to be beneficial for the society is a fallacy. Reaching a full consensus…

In Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem, Equality 7-2521 is faced with a lots of problems. In the begining, Equality is living in a collectivist society, where morals dictate that any individual act is a sin and should be severely punished. But still Equality doesn’t like the life of togetherness, and as a result he wants individuality. As the story goes on, his morals begin to change from those he learned to ones he finds in his own mind. In his last journal he says that all the guilt and shame he felt…