Anthem By Ayn Rand: Literary Analysis

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Johana Roque Mr. Kalma English 5-8 7 January 2015 Essays Are the Anthem of Success Question: Aside from very rare exceptions there is literally no opposition to the leaders in this society. Why is this? What ideas must the people in this society have accepted to live a life of obedience, drudgery, and fear? The novella “Anthem” by Ayn Rand takes place in future and it tells the story of Equality 7-2521 (later called Prometheus) through his perspective and shows how he lives a life that others made for him. He lives in a society where you are not an individual but a whole and he lived like that until he finds a tunnel from the Unmentionable Times and everything just falls apart. He discovers electricity, gets sent to the Palace of Corrective …show more content…

Such as, how we live we believe it is normal while they think the way they live their life is. They were born into that life style and to live any other way to them is wrong. They believe that if you go against them that it is a crime punishable by death as Equality 7-2521 almost experience when he showed his discovery to the council. He also witnessed the consequence of going against the council when a transgressor spoke the unspeakable word which is forbidden hence the title and was burned. There is no opposition because they accepted the idea that they are all the …show more content…

They accepted the idea that no one should be called an individual and can’t say “I” only “We” because they are a whole. Men have accepted thoughts like they are useless without their brothers and scared to speak out otherwise for fear of none of their brothers agreeing with them. They really do not know of any other way to live because that lifestyle is all they know. They may fear another way because it goes against what they were taught and they do not know how to adapt to other ways because they have lived that way their entire lives. No one goes against the leaders because they are scared. They are afraid that if they say what they think they will be punished. Anyone with signs of individualism are put to death so they may have no other opinions. Everyone believes the same things because they council puts these ideas into their

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