lives. People should not be threatened by their own society‚ but they should be themselves instead of mindless puppets of society. Ayn Rand‚ a Russian-born US novelist‚ creates related personalities between Equality‚ from Anthem‚ and Howard Roark‚ from Fountainhead. Both characters are different from the society they live in‚ have a female companion who supports their ways
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examples of a distopian society is The Maze Runner and Anthem. In Anthem and The Maze Runner there are so many similarities. The book Anthem was written by Ayn Rand. Equality 7-2521 is the main character. The book takes place in a town where there is a bunch of factions and you are assigned your own faction and soulmate. Equality follows the certain rules of his “job” and the town. Equality found entrance of a tunnel and went into it. The main character was in the tunnel and experimented and created the
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Predominance of Government In the movie Matrix‚ most of the characters believe they are living in an Utopian society. The main Protagonist‚ Neo‚ feels weirdness of his society and is contacted by the leader‚ Morpheus‚ a freedom fighter who believes Neo is the one who will destroy the dystopian society. In novella‚ Anthem‚ by Ayn Rand‚ the protagonists Prometheus knows there is an unnatural element in his society and commits many transgression in a form of rebellion. Prometheus chooses to fight
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In the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand the character Equality 7-2521 differs from the people he is surrounded by because he does not want to live his life by rules that are set by the government‚ also he wants to learn about subjects he is interested in. Although it is a sin for street sweepers to learn about anything he has a special gift of understanding his school work although street sweepers are supposed to be unintelligent. In Ayn Rand’s Anthem Equality is different from his brothers because he wants
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The Great Rebirth made it so everyone is supposed to believe in the same thing and act or look the same way‚ but Equality decided that he was better than that and decided to go against the status quo everyone else was under. Equality 7-2521’s development as a character throughout Anthem can be seen as a progressive move towards the distinctive way of thinking he discovers and presents in the chapters of Anthem. It’s an egoistic way of thinking‚ because it asserts that the only goal of any individual
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individuality that Equality and Harrison had to face‚ as difficult as they thought it was? In the novella Anthem and the short story “Harrison Bergeron‚” Rand and Vonnegut use the theme of individualism vs. collectivism to show the oppression of each society‚ the fear used to control its citizens and the characters that rebel. In both stories‚ oppression is used to make everyone equal. The government in Anthem takes away its citizens’ individuality to make a part of the group. In both stories‚ oppression
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Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Date: Luke wrote the Books of Acts between 62 and 70 AD. During his period‚ Luke was the only Gentile Christian from Greek who wrote in the New Testament. According Colossians chapter 4:14‚ it is evident that Luke was elite from the Greek and was a physician. The book of Acts was given an authorship in the early second century where Luke is not named as a writer in the book of Acts. It is argued that‚ in the last chapters of the book of Luke first plural;
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Why was the reform act passed in 1867? Which factor was most important? In 1886 Gladstone had proposed a moderate reform bill‚ it would’ve enfranchised an additional 400‚000 men. However it was fiercely opposed by the government. Disraeli in particular feared that extending the franchise challenged the authority of his aristocracy. However‚ when the conservatives returned to office later in the year‚ Disraeli decided to press for reform. In fact the reform was even more radical than the first. There
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Living in a collective society where you can’t express yourself or be independent is hard to imagine. In Anthem‚ the collective society they live in forbids individuality like thoughts‚ feelings‚ words‚ and actions. It says “We must strive to be like all our brother men‚ for all men must be alike.(17)” In Anthem‚ when Equality stumbles upon a chance to detach himself from the collective society‚ he makes the most of it. I think Equality’s primary motivation was to make something for himself and
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times we have appreciate acts of people or groups that wanted to take people’s freedom‚ by force or in their minds‚ a great example can be the Nazis when in 1939 starter a war‚ because they wanted to take away freedom from some people and exterminated. In the book Anthem we can see how the leaders of the society tried to take freedom away from people by not letting them choose by their own‚ taking away their thinking‚ destroying their minds by occulting the truth which is why you have freedom. The leaders
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