Ayn Rand's Anthem
Anthem
Ayn Rand met her expectations, and along with everyone else. By writing this speculative fiction she has pointed out how people want others to be in the world, but in a more dramatic tense. As Thomas Jefferson said, ¨All men are created equal¨. They may be created equal when they are born, but some strive to do great things while others wait. We are our own individual. Choices made are up to us not others. We are all created different, and meant to be different. That is the whole meaning of diversity.
In Anthem there are numbers to represent each individual. ¨Our name is Equality 7-2521, as it is written on the iron bracelet which all men wear on their left wrists with their names upon it” (page 18).That is similar as today except
Ayn Rand met her expectations, and along with everyone else. By writing this speculative fiction she has pointed out how people want others to be in the world, but in a more dramatic tense. As Thomas Jefferson said, ¨All men are created equal¨. They may be created equal when they are born, but some strive to do great things while others wait. We are our own individual. Choices made are up to us not others. We are all created different, and meant to be different. That is the whole meaning of diversity.
In Anthem there are numbers to represent each individual. ¨Our name is Equality 7-2521, as it is written on the iron bracelet which all men wear on their left wrists with their names upon it” (page 18).That is similar as today except