Anthem Study Guide Chapter 1 1. Anthem is based in a socialist society. Everyone is treated as equals. Nobody is allowed to think they are above anyone else. They all are given names that are followed by numbers so they have no identity. They are assigned jobs by the scholars. They have to do everything for their brothers. The scholars run everything. They have very little technology. They use candles and torches for lighting. They are not allowed to socialize with people outside of their
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Anthem In the novel‚ “Anthem” by Ayn Rand‚ there is a twenty-one year old man by the name of Equality 7-2521. In the beginning of the novel‚ he is alone in a railroad tunnel‚ writing in a journal. It is a sin to be by yourself and to write and think for oneself‚ according to the Council of Vocation. To the World Council‚ all men must be completely alike and they all must form one indivisible “WE”. He meets a seventeen-year-old woman named Liberty 5-3000. He falls in love with her‚ which is not allowed
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Ayn Rand’s Anthem portrays a scared world with a homogenous culture and mindset‚ imprisoning its citizens with their thoughts. This imprisoned mindset caused a regression of technology out of fear of being different and the consequences that came with that. When an individual is erased to be a part of a whole and they are not allowed to question what is “known” nothing new can come about without retaliation‚ which is depicted in Equality’s story of the society he lived in. Equality 7-2521‚ a street
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The main character‚ Equality 7-2521‚ in the book “Anthem”‚ introduces readers to the numerous rules and controls in their city. Refraining from the concept of self and individuality is a major rule that all members of the society must abide by. The famous dystopian fiction novella‚ “Anthem”‚ was originally written in the 1930’s about the adverse side of collectivism. Ayn Rand describes a futuristic society where pronouns such as “I” are to be unspoken. Equality 7-2521 refers to himself as “we” repetitively
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From the moment he was born‚ Equality 7-2521 had no control over his life. Once he was seperated from his mother‚ he lived in the Home of Infants with the other kids born that year. When he turned age five he was sent to the Home of the Students where they realized he was different from the other children. The Council of Vocations were frightened for he was too different‚ so they assigned him to the Home of the Street Sweepers where he couldn’t be a threat. Equality 7-2521 and everyone else in the
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path and not allowing others to dictate your life. The story of Anthem by Ayn Rand‚ is the exact opposite of what Oprah stands for. Rand tells the story of a young man named Equality 7-2521‚ it being written from his point of view. Equality has shown to commit many “sins” throughout the course of his life. He feels as though what the council decides of his fate is a punishment for his sins‚ of which he is grateful. However‚ Equality soon wants to prove that he is scholar worthy‚ and that he should
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must enslave a man’s body and mind body and his mind too‚ in the book Anthem‚ a book by Ayn Rand. The council shows how easy it is to do so. The council created the unmentionable times‚ which was before the Rebirth and the Great Script fire. After that‚ they had to follow rules‚ which were to be a collective society; those rules caused everyone to be one. Another thing is the punishment they use and how it did not affect Equality at all. The council showed us how easy it was for them to control
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“It is a sin to write this” (1)‚ begins Equality 7-2521 in the novel Anthem‚ as he refers to the act of simply writing to the reader of the book. Equality is told all his life that there is no one person‚ only the group‚ he was never introduced the word “I’ for he knows only of “we”. With that being said‚ he was also told that it is against the law to be thought of as one single person thinking his or her own thoughts‚ that it is against the law to have your own ideas or opinions because thinking
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will get overthrown by the people. So they had to create laws that are unfair and make it like a dictatorship. Since Equality was little he never got along with his “Brothers” or his teachers. He would get in trouble for being too smart. That is why he said he has a curse in the beginning of the book. Now he realizes that he has to do something about his society. Prometheus/Equality is correct to critically judge his society because he learns that the leaders of their society’s morals are hypocritical
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This essay talks about the story anthem and how equality went from doing whatever his leaders wanted to doing what he wanted and ignoring his leaders. Equality would listen to his leaders and work all day for many years but after he finds the tunnel he starts sneaking out and quits listening to them. Equality starts to find out that his society’s rules and knowledge is wrong and that they don’t know everything. Equality has become very critical of the leaders of his community after they decided to
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