Paul Rand

According to interestingliterature.com, the genre of dystopia has been around since 1747, and Anthem is another book building onto the tower of dystopian novels. From old Victorian novels to the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins dystopian novels have captured the attention of many. From old people to young children the genre entrances the population, and Anthem is no exception. Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem portrays the dystopian genre because citizens conform to uniform expectations, the protagonist…

Anthems are popularly thought of as songs that define a generation; songs that belong in the soundtrack of an era. Tupac, Beyoncé, and Kendrick Lamar are all superstar artists that have conjured numerous anthems to inspire the African American community to continue the fight for freedom and equality. There are, however, countless songs that are constantly overlooked, but serve as effective anthems for change. Vic Mensa, a hip-hop artist from south Chicago, has been a rather vocal activist…

Director D.W. Griffith employs a variety of innovative filmmaking techniques, under the categories of mise-en-scene, cinematography and editing, to tell his narrative in Death’s Marathon. I will focus on a few techniques that stood out to me as essential stylistic decisions that progressed the narrative. Firstly, the costumes and how they distinguished between characters, and events; secondly, the blocking and character movements and how they expressed emotion; thirdly, the lighting and how it…

Ayn Rand and what is her theory of “objectivist ethics” (as found in the excerpt from The Fountainhead)? What is the relationship of her philosophy to ethical egoism? Ayn Rand is an American novelist and philosopher that immigrated from Russia to the United States because she was against communism. Her theory of objective ethics argues that “reason sets us apart from all other species” and because “reason is necessary for our survival, reason has moral value for humans” (Boss, p. 209). Rand…

In 1993 Louis Lowry writes an apocalyptical novel what is today called The Giver. This novel depicts a clear image on how numb we can be to the world today. The Giver is a novel about a community where everyone is the same; no one or nothing is different. Each member is assigned a certain task to contribute to the wellness of the community at age 12. While every 12 year old gets a normal everyday job, a young boy named Jonas is chosen for an exciting yet painful job. This job provides him with…

It is obvious lots of people want to eliminate classes but, there can never, and will never be a classless society. First, it is impossible to create classlessness because if everyone is equal then there is one class. Society has its problems, and classes have their problems, but it is human nature to put things in groups, by looks, apparent intelligence, and sexual orientation. So, naturally, humans, or animals,will always want equality, but by nature we will always label them and put them in…

as shown in the documentary “Inside Undercover In North Korea”, the people are taught to never doubt or go against their leader just like the citizens in Anthem. “They had torn out the tongue of the Transgressor,so that they could speak no longer” ( Rand 50 ). This quote is describing a character in Anthem who spoke a forbidden word and was punished by getting his tongue cut out, and burned alive in front of the children and men of the city. According to the documentary “Inside Undercover In…

important and better than the individual? The novella Anthem by Ayn Rand features a man by the name of Equality 7-2521 who lives in a dystopian society and he’s held back due to his superior brain power. He is forced into a job that no one would want, such as street sweeper to force him down the totem pole. In the short story “Harrison Bergeron”, Harrison is sent to a prison because of his superior strength. Throughout both Anthem by Ayn Rand and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, one can see…

“A house can have integrity just like a person,” (Rand 136) Howard Roark says to Austen Keller, the first client of his independent architecture firm, to describe why Austin likes Roark’s style so much: integrity and purpose. Roark is the main character of Ayn Rand’s 1943 The Fountainhead; he is a daring modern architect who does not follow the rules set by society for how buildings should be designed. The events of the story take place during the 1920’s and 1930’s in New York, Connecticut, and…

Anthem is about a young boy named Equality 7-2521 who is seen as an outcast and sinner in his society. Equality 7-2521 lives in a post-modern society where the citizens are forbidden to say the word “I” and everything must be done as a brotherhood. They have none of the modern inventions that we do, the only one they have is the candle. Single thoughts and actions are seen as sins in this society, as everyone must look and act the same. Equality 7-2521 is very different from his brothers, he…