...those who trespass against you to trial by a jury of peers. Basically it means you are a free person, and no one has the right to harm you. In the Book Anthem by Ayn Rand, no one has individual rights. They do not even know what I means, they are all one. I would hate to have this government, and I wouldn't even be able to have an opinion about it. The government should NOT have the right to control the individual. People should have the right to be an individual. People deserve to choose how their life functions. They deserve to have the right to choose if they want a family, friends experiences, etc. Even little things like what they read, write, say, even how they look....
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...have been blindsided by the Government most of their lives. “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see…” as stated in the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand. Sometimes being assigned isn’t the same as wishing when wishing is considered breaking the law.Time and time again the Government always seems to have an impact on how people act. Some people think that their government is there to protect them, when really they are controlling them, treating them like their own private puppets that only do what the government wants them to or tells them to.The Government controls every aspect of your life ,that is if you let them. In the quote “we closed our eyes, and we held our lips shut, and we stopped our breath, that no shudder might let our brothers see or hear or guess, and we thought that we wished to be sent to the Home of the scholars.”& “ But we knew that they were alive,...
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...Imagine living in a world where you have no control over yourself and where there is a law against everything you do. Well in the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand this is how the characters in this story live. Throughout this story The Unconquered realizes that everyone deserves to have rights and not be controlled all the time. You should be born with freedom and be able to make decisions for yourself. The government in this story has complete control, but The Unconquered changes this overtime. In the beginning the laws are strict and no one is allowed to stand out in any type of way. In the middle of the story is when he begins to rebel against the law. Then towards the end he was in his own world with his own laws. He was no longer controlled by the government. So within this story the theme of laws and government changes a lot overtime. In the beginning of the novel the laws were very strict....
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...Ayn Rand “I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.” (Rand. 58). Ayn Rand treasured her personal beliefs, which were reflected through her writing. Rand lived in two distinct countries: Russia and the United States, during her lifetime. Ayn also lived during a time where many major global events occurred. A very unique and interesting childhood and adult life, subjective beliefs and philosophies, and major events occurring in the world around her were all factors that contributed to Ayn Rand’s perspective and style of writing in her infamous novel, Anthem. Ayn Rand, the oldest of three daughters, was born on February 2, 1906 (Gladstein. 3,4). Rand’s given birth name was Alisa Zinovievna...
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...In Ayn Rand’s “Anthem”, a plethora of themes is presented. Ayn writes about a collectivist society at an indeterminable date in the future, but the residents ae lead to believe by the government that this is a utopia. They had lost all individuality and free will to collectivism. So, the main character, Equality 7-2521, tried to change this and instead got cast away by his brothers. He wanted them to thrive. Collectivism is detrimental because human nature is to be selfish, self-reliant, and independent. Through characterization, Rand’s character Equality 7-2521 learns that selfishness is not a sin, but a right. Since Rand grew up in a Communist government she could accurately model Equality off a common citizen under collectivist...
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...for his contributions to their society; inevitably, however, Equality recognizes the impossibility of his situation as the council berates him and denounces his invention, claiming that since it had not been devised in cooperation with his brothers, it was a sinful abomination that needed to be destroyed. Utilizing her characters as a means for presenting her ideas about morality, Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem illustrates a fundamental truth about the necessity of an objective moral framework within a society. Similarly, in her essay How Does One Live a Rational Life in an Irrational Society?, Rand poses her ideology that morality is objective and an absolute essential to a functional society. In both her essay and in Anthem, Rand explores the necessity for an objective morality in society, blah blah blah, and blah blah blah implications of a society....
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...Anthem Essay In her essay “How to live a Rational Life in an Irrational Society” Ayn Rand states that in a society with zero judging there could only be two people who had initiative. They could be someone who was willing to create rational and moral judgements for society or a thug who had no moral responsibilities such as a thug who was aware of how irrational the society really is. The character from her novel Anthem Equality 7-2125 would certainly agree with her as he is a person in the former group. He was right to denounce the way of his leaders in moral terms and to leave the City. On Ayn Rand’s Essay In her essay “How to live a Rational Life in an Irrational Society” Ayn Rand states that the only way to keep society rational is to judge others and be prepared to be judged yourself. In her essay Ayn Rand states, “An irrational society is a society of moral cowards—of men paralyzed by the loss of moral standards, principles and goals. But since men have to act, so long as they live, such a society is ready to be taken over by anyone willing to set its direction. The initiative can come from only two types of men: either from the man who is willing to assume the responsibility of asserting rational values—or from the thug who is not troubled by questions of responsibility.”. This is because not judging only benefits the evil overall and not the...
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...Compare and Contrast Anthem with Night Even though books come in many genres, they can still be compared and contrasted. This applies to almost all books. For example, Eliezer Wiesel’s Night and Ayn Rand’s Anthem are different genres. However, the similarities and differences between these author’s works are definite and deserve analysis. Such similarities include how the societies handle the executions of criminals. In Anthem, Equality has to stand “...in the great square with all the children and all the men of the city, sent to behold the burning” (Rand, 38). During Elie’s experience in the Holocaust, he and everyone else in his camp has to walk “...past the hanged boy and stared at his extinguished eyes, the tongue gaping from his mouth. The Kapos forced everyone to look him squarely in the face” (Wiesel, 63). Also, both Elie and Equality receive messages from watching a public execution. When the pipel is hanged, Elie thinks that God is no longer with the Jews and takes it to...
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...Zinn’s style. Rand says, “Altruism is evil” (Ayn). Altruism is the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others. Certainly not what Rand stood for, but Howard Zinn did. He believed in being there for your neighbor, friends, family, or others who needed you. Rand’s Objectivism was also not a loving and caring philosophy. She never once said, “Remember your friends and family, they are the ones who will be there when you fall.” Consistent with a display of selfish values, those were her ideas, “what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine.” Her ideas lacked generosity and faith or religion. Difficult as it may seem, she was said to be a nice old lady who has been just like a cuddly grandma, that's hard to imagine. Wikipedia says of Objectivisim, “that the only social system consistent with this morality is one that displays full respect for individual rights embodied in “Laissez-Faire Capitalism”, and that the role of art in human life is to transform humans' metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical form—a work of art—that one can...
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...Ayn Rand's Anthem depicts a completely collectivist society which is similar to the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry a futuristic society that had removed pain, fear, war, and hatred. Equality 7-2521 and Jonas are both in a society where they had no choice in what job was given to them. Equality was given the job of street sweeper due to his compliance to the council, while Jonas received the job of "The Receiver", which is the most trusted job in his society. It is one person suffering the knowledge of the past to make sure history will not repeat itself. Both characters were given their lives with no control over it. Past and present day societies treat their people in a similar way to Lois Lowry's Giver and Ayn Rand's Anthem's dystopian...
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...Throughout Anthem, by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 in conflict himself on how to think in his society. The totalitarian government controls the progress of technology and prohibits the flow of new ideas from other people that would strengthen the society as a whole. The council knew about the Unmentionable Times, and if everyone has the ability to think like Equality 7-2521, without fear, they would be more advanced in the field of science and technology. In the society of Anthem, technology is very outdated and primitive. This implies that the society does not have the necessary qualities that science and technology needs to progress and prosper. Comparing Anthem to the society that Ayn Rand was surrounded by, they are both primitive in their technology and willingness to accept foreign ideas. During the communist reign...
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...What is the future going to be resemble? Will it resemble The Jetsons from 1960’s TV? Or will it be closer to Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables? In Anthem, Ayn Rand depicts a world void of modern technology set in a new dark age. Anthem proposes a different school of thought when it comes to our future. When juxtaposed with other stories set in the future, Ayn Rand’s world is drastically different. Anthem’s school of thought is based on the prospect that technology is a cycle, freedom of thought is necessary for technological advancement, and, in Anthem, totalitarian governments will purposely try to hinder technological advancement. In our current world, we view technology as an ever progressing entity that will either allow us to live forever,...
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...A dystopia is an anti-paradise usually with a totalitarian government controlling it. A dystopian novel is often a futuristic society that has degraded into a repressive and controlled state. Ayn Rand was a Russian-born American novelist who wrote Anthem during World War 2. Ayn Rand’s Anthem is an example of a dystopian novel based on the society worshipping the council, independent thought, free speech and the ability to retain any knowledge they wanted is restricted and the Unmentionable times being banished and forgotten. The first reason showing that Anthem is a dystopian novel is that the society worships the Council of Scholars. The Council makes the rules and disciplines the people who do not follow the rules. One of the Council’s...
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...In Ayn Rand’s Anthem, a worldwide totalitarian society of the future is depicted. The society of Anthem is extremely primitive, and lacks inventions that are commonly used in modern society, such as electricity, vehicles, and such. Many seemingly simple objects were reinvented in Anthem, such as glass and the candle, which is the “. . .newest [invention]...[and] was found only a hundred years ago…” A quote from Plato’s Republic was believed to be the inspiration of the English proverb, ”Necessity is the mother of invention.” In Anthem, the reason there are no new inventions is not that there are no necessities, but rather the lack of an individual to feel something is necessary, lest the needs of their brethren. Individuals do not do...
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...what is and is not allowed in the totalitarianistic society pictured in Anthem, by Ayn Rand, and proceeds regardless. While the outright and truthful account is being given at the beginning, the reader comes to understand that Equality is unsure of what the response will be to his purposeful fracture of the law. But something more subtle is apparent following the conclusion of the book: Equality’s underlying carelessness with the law. Though acknowledging his refusal to adhere to every law set forth by the Council, he still maintains his sense of apprehension. The arc Equality undergoes throughout the course of Anthem...
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