Leonard Pitts

Some countries believe in communism. After all, it aims to make everything equal and fair. Despite of this, most of the world rejects this idea. In Anthem, by Ayn Rand, communism and collectivist societies are viewed as a terrible idea. Anthem explores what would happen if the idea of communism continued to grow. There would be no individualism in communist societies, because everyone should be equal. According to Anthem, communism and collectivist societies should be disapproved of because…

“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual”(Albert Einstein). In Ayn Rand’s Anthem, all that is valuable in human society is gone. What is left is a collectivist society that justifies, and keeps their power in dominating ways. With the overwhelming weight of this system, it is hard to imagine how the protagonist, Equality 7-2521, finds an out and a different way of living. Anthem shows a collectivist society that expresses only…

Anthem Essay In Anthem there are a lot of things that are misconstrued, including the wording in the book. Once you get past the wording it turns out to be a fantastic book. Ayn Rand has thought everything through and Anthem has been very well put together. Though, there are some questions that I have, and I am going to break the questions down. Equality 7-2521 is right about criticizing his leaders because there community is not natural and they need a change of environment. Equality is right…

In the book Anthem, the people think and work as a group. This means there is no individualism throughout the whole community, instead there is one collective thought. This is much different compared to how life is now, at least here in the United States where everyone has the will to think and act as an individual. The purpose of this essay is to state the similarities and differences of a collective society, like in the book, and an individual society, similar to most of the world at this…

Morality Arthur Paliden once said, “Morality is doing what is right without the threat of divine retribution nor the possibility of divine reward.” These wise words were proven to be true in the novel Anthem. At the beginning, Equality 7-2521 often struggled with the strict rules of what was deemed evil or good; It was a constant torture for him. Once he has escaped, he begins to ponder about his place in the world. For once in his life he desired to know if society was right, if their morals…

Analysis of the Death of the Moth Death is inevitable. It can happen in the blink of an eye with zero warning, or be a drawn out process, as the individual struggles to survive. All living entities will face their death at some point. Do all entities obtain the same amount of energy, or life force though? Virginia Woolf examines life and death in her essay Death of the Moth. The piece was published in 1942, approximately a year after Woolf faced her own inevitable death by suicide. Woolf…

In the book “Anthem” by Ayn Rand the character Equality lives in a totalitarian society where everyone has equal rights. Everyone in the society is taught that they are equal to their brothers and sisters, that they are to think of everyone as equal and that nobody is better than others.Equality begins to change throughout the book in so that he is gaining an “ego’. Equality soon meets a woman named Liberty. Equality sees her different than the others. He begins to have feelings and begins to…

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…

Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann present two very distinct versions of the iconic balcony s c e n e f r o m W i l l i a m S h a k e s p e a r e ’ s R o m e o a n d J u l i e t . O n e i n t e r e s t i n g s i m i l a r i t y i s i n t h e m u s i c a n d h o w i t helps the scene along. The costumes are also similar, with similar colors representing characteristics of their relationship. The scenery of the Zeffirelli version, even with it being more true to the story, better suits the…

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…