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Life Motivators In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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Life Motivators It is often said that allowing other people to control the way one lives their life will hinder them from reaching their maximum potential. On the other hand, when one lives their own life they way they want to, unimaginable things happen and are achieved. One of the best ways to achieve unimaginable things is for one to find something that motivates them and drives them to be the absolute best person that they can be and to never let themselves do any less. The entire world would be a more amicable and surpassing place for everyone. Throughout the different scenes and obstacles that the novel’s hero experiences in Ayn Rand’s, Anthem, it shows that in order to be the best person one can be they have to find themselves and live life …show more content…
He doesn’t think that he is greater than anyone or has to live his life for anyone and he proves it in his comments to the Golden One, “I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man’s soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet”(96). Now if everybody in the world didn’t covet other men there wouldn’t be any thieves or robbers and if nobody owed any debts and no one collected debts there would be more people in houses instead of on the streets. People would be happy with their own lives and what they have and would be grateful and willing to stand up for their friends and neighbors just like Equality claims, “For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor”(104). Living this way would help the world reach its ultimate

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