Anthem vs The Matrix In all of these dystopian literature books and novels‚ the main protagonists are young adults. It shows that more kids are starting to like dystopian literature more because they can relate to them more. Just about all of dystopian literature novels or even movies there are young adult that take the lead. Dystopian literature is quite the topic‚ there are novels and even movies based on dystopian literature! You might not even realized that dystopian literature is everywhere
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The dystopian novel “Anthem” by Ayn Rand has many Objectivist political agendas hidden within it. At the beginning of the book‚ the protagonist‚ Equality 7-2521‚ says that all of his crimes are sins. Some examples of these crimes were his acts of individuality‚ writing‚ and interacting with those of the other sex outside of the Time of Mating. To the average American‚ these do not seem like crimes at all‚ but they are in the extremely communistic society in which Equality 7-2521 lives in. By making
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This poem talks about the lack of spiritual rituals that didn’t take place during the deaths that occurred during World War I. The title refers to a song that condemns the deaths of innocent people during that war. The poem is a sonnet‚ so it is divided into two stanzas with eight verses the first one (two quatrains)‚ and the second one has six verses. The first quatrain has an abab rhyme‚ the second quatrain rhymes cdcd‚ and the six final verses have an eff rhyme. We can also find
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Imagine if there was no electricity‚ no computers‚ no cars‚ no smart phones. What if there was no “I” or “you‚” or anything that allowed people to stand out from one another? In the novel Anthem‚ Ayn Rand creates a dystopia that is true of all those things‚ but still proves that liberation and hope can be found among the suffering and despair. She is able to do this through the actions and thoughts of the main character‚ Equality 7-2521‚ when he finally realizes society is not what it seems to be
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The captivating novel Anthem‚ by Ayn Rand‚ concentrates on Equality’s changes in his moral assessment. In this story‚ Equality fights to become independent and to improve the quality of life for him and people around him. Equality‚ along with the other characters in this novel‚ thinks it is a sin to write at the beginning of the book. By the end‚ he has no shame in his sins and has a different moral assessment and perspective of his actions. Equality takes steps throughout the book‚ starting with
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Scholars. When he showed them they all ran from the table that Prometheus placed the box of light bulbs. One member from the World Council of Scholars said “How dare you think that your mind held greater wisdom than the minds of your brothers” (Ayn Rand‚ Anthem‚ page 71). Everyone in this society has to think and act the same. It is a sin to oppose the laws that the World Council
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In Anthem‚ Equality is for sure being an egoist‚ but he is using his ego for the greater good of himself and his domineering society. Ego is a word that describes ones self-pride and sense of accomplishment towards themselves. In theory‚ ego is a synomyn of
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What is the process to individualism? In the book Anthem the story is based around a collectivist society. This society is built around the sake of mankind as a whole and not the individual. Many different laws are in place to enforce this collectivism. In this society Equality 7-2521 who strays off the beaten path and strives for his individualism. The process that Equality went through to become his individual is that he defied the oppressive laws‚ he started to see himself as his own person‚ and
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compelling works of fiction that border along being something of an attempted prophecy‚ specifically in the case of Anthem. While we may not have direct words from the author to prove this‚ the book gives off this aura as though it were a vision of what the world could become if communism as Rand knew it during her time continued on in the direction it had then been traveling. Perhaps Anthem was written‚ in contrast‚ to simply deliver a message of self-worth and independence to a new extreme. Her new
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English essay – the new true anthem The poem “The New True Anthem” by Kevin Gilbert acknowledges the fact that there is more then a single opinion of what has happened to the lives of people both English and native aboriginal‚ also what has happened to the beautiful land once home to many native aboriginal tribes all over the continent of Australia. It also says that people of English descendent say that they do love Australia while in fact they don’t and are treating it as a land of their own
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