Essay on Ayn Rand

“Anthem” – one of writing authors Ayn Rand, shows her at her most vicious, hungry, and ambitious reading personality not only as a writer, but as a storyteller as well. The classic hit novel “Anthem” is the predecessor to Ayn Rands later books and storytelling works such as “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged”, often tackles controversial themes that are still prevalent within modern America today, such as Family & Love. The grandeur novel “Anthem” is a reflection of such topics, all whilst being told with almost an aura of mystery within the novels plotline / storyline. “Anthem’s” take on things such as individuality and self discovery along with universal, self serving terms such as “I” & the word “We” are the key factors in helping differinciate this author Ayn Rand from other authors that write and compse the same genre of literature as Ayn Rand. Anyways, please allow for me to introduce you to the under the surface, deeper themes expressed in the classic debut novel, Ayn Rands “Anthem”

We often think that this world has a lot of cruel rules, but when it comes to Anthem by Ayn Rand, you get to realize that it’s far worse. There are plenty of strict and harsh rules for men in Anthem. To name just a few of them, the Council of Vocations select your job whether you like it or not. Not being able of who you want to have children with. The rules and controls in the book that Equality 7-2521, the narrator, states, should be different and less harsh and cruel.

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia on February 2, 1905, Ayn Rand was born. During the second revolution (bolshevik Revolution), Ayn Rand’s Father’s pharmacy was taken out by the

Author Ayn Rand paints the picture of a dystopia, stripped of individuality and independence, in her 1938 novel Anthem. Main character, Equality 7-2521, is one of few to question the ways of his society. He is able to develop strong personal ideas and principles despite the restricting environment he is raised in. Equality 7-2521 takes notice of the confinements of society, opposes these confinements, and envisions a new society for himself and future generations.

Ayn Rand’s Anthem is a based in a society where discovery and uniqueness is anything but real, and where thinking for yourself is considered immoral and a sin. The story is told in the point of view of Equality 7-2521, an ordinary street sweeper in a city ruled by a communist regime. Any knowledge about the civilization that existed beforehand (our world) is prohibited, and is punishable. However, Equality was different from the ordinary citizen that lived here. Unlike others, he pondered about how natural phenomena happen, such as thunderstorms. He is curious about the world, and wants discovers that he is meant to do something in this world that is meaningful, not do the laborious job of being a street sweeper for the rest of this life. He stumbles upon a tunnel, and realizing the privacy he now has, he performs scientific experiments, and from this, learns secrets about science that nobody in this Collectivist and communist society.

Ayn Rand was a Russian- American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on February 2, 1905. She is known for her very controversial novella showing a fictional, but eerily realistic post-apocalyptic world that has fallen into communism called Anthem. Anthem was published in 1938 and depicts a city that has fallen into now would be considered inhumane acts and laws. The city in the story Anthem features a collectivist dictatorship which holds strict laws that must not be broken, these laws prohibit individuality, creativity, and freedom.

The extensive amount of rules and controls of the society Prometheus lives in has lead him to insanity. Prometheus of Ayn Rand’s Anthem society’s amount of control over the community and has restricted the human capacity to a slave like being due to having no choice over what you do with your life. Contrary to the superior’s belief, Prometheus’s vision of his society would make humans able to reach their highest ability and prosperity.

“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose” (Rand, 95). Anthem is written by American author Ayn Rand about Equality 7-2521 on his quest for happiness. The novel is set in an unspecified time and place in the future. Years after human civilization has gone through a deconstruction in which all knowledge was lost and a new society established with no concept of the individual. “The novel describes the efforts of the main character, Equality 7-2521, to reestablish a sense of personal identity and restore the knowledge of the past by objective scientific inquiry. In doing so, he must face many dangers and privations” (Anthem). Anthem is a dairy of the Equality

“What is not thought by all men cannot be true” is the common belief in the totalitarian world of Anthem (73). In this post-apocalyptic and altruistic society people can only exists through the service to their brothers, and individual thoughts and actions are shunned upon. Equality 2-72521 is brilliant, using technologies he found from before the “great rebirth” to formulate new conclusions about the virtually unexplored world of his time. With individualism shunned, personal thought is prohibited as well. Idiosyncrasy of anyone is looked upon as evil because it is different from other brother men, so people are bred to be and think the same. Science and technology are advanced upon with the thought of individuals coming up with new hypothesis

Ayn Rand's Anthem shows us her view of our world united under what seems to be communist rule. For example their view of right and wrong; which Anthem portrays is a system of very strict rules which mainly make sure that everyone is involved in a collective role within the society in this system no one is considered an individual or that they can even think as an individual.

After moving from soviet Russia to the United States in 1926, Ayn Rand became a well known playwright, author, and philosopher. Rand is well-known for her philosophical system, objectivism. Objectivism stresses that happiness is the most important goal one should have. All of these ideas and philosophies are present in the novel Rand composed, Anthem. In this collectivist society the people act as robots as they carry out their lives with little emotion, limited technology, and the constant threat of punishment. The atmosphere of this novel depicts a society with very rare opposition to the leadership because the people whom it is made up of have no reason to oppose it and since they are constantly threatened with punishments.

brought them for a civilization where the word ?I? did not exist to a world

Ellen Raskin was a famous writer born in 1928 on March 13 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ellen grew up during the great depression. She speaks of her schooling as “rigid” and memorizing her work.(kruse,1981-2000) Ellen went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was seventeen when she started college. Her major was journalism but eventually she changed it to fine arts.

The novel “Anthem” is a dystopian fiction novel by Ayn Rand. It was written in 1937, and published in 1938 in England. The story of “Anthem” takes place in an unnamed communist like dictatorship based on the future. In the novel, Ayn Rand explores gender and how men and women are portrayed. In the novel “Anthem”, there are many issues and themes. The themes include desire, equality, individuality,and gender. Gender roles are expressed and portrayed between Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000.

Zadie went into to college unknowing she didn't have an intellectual background and wasn't expected to succeed, but with everything going against her, she felt motivated to prove to everyone that she could succeed. When she was asked about the course she took she said “The most important to me, were the literary theory and the philosophy. They left me capable of independent thought, something my school education never really achieved.”(Cambridge, 2017). She thought that the school had given freedom to choose for herself and that gave her the courage to write her first book and continue writing every book since then.