1/5/2024 0 Comments Anthem ayn randHowever, unlike dystopian books written today Rand had a purpose and agenda for writing her story. It ends happily enough for him and a mate he meets of like-mindedness who escape. He's being force-fed happiness and seeing through it. It's a well-written story of a man finding himself rebelling against the post-apocalyptic world he's only known. This is a dystopian novella, originally written in 1937, today's reader may find the story/plot cliched but one must remember those cliches came from these early writers of dystopia. This is my first foray into Ayn Rand, not really knowing much about her philosophy except its focus on individualism vs collectivism. The novels and early fiction of Ayn Randare classics of modern American fiction, with a unique perspective. It is stylistically pure, interesting and very well-written. It also provides a very readable introduction to Rand's work, for readers who hesitate to take on the large tomes, such as The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged.While not everybody is interested in Ayn Rand's philosophy, her fictional work has merit in its own right. However, as an early novella within the genre, Anthem may still be read. With Liberty 5-3000 he flees the city, to the Uncharted Forest, where is is pursued, but succeeds in hiding.Especially to readers today, Ayn Rand's novella Anthem may seem little spectacular. With the re-discovery of some lost technology, Equality 7-2521 hopes to impress the authorities, help humanity and be allowed to pursue his career as a scholar, but instead he is cursed. He also meets a girls, Liberty 5-3000, with whom he falls in love. scientist) he is assigned to serve the community as a street sweeper.Outside the city, Equality 7-2521 discovers a place where he can withdraw, devote himself in self-study and develop his invention. Thus, while Equality 7-2521's ambition was to become a scholar (i.e. Children are raised away from their parents, and in youth there is no freedom of choice in careers. Like their names, all other traces of independence and individuality have been erased. The main characters are identified as Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000. The story of the novella is fairly simple.At the time of the story, people no longer have names. It has been suggested that she might have been influenced by Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We, which was published in 1921, but the main consensus is that Rand independently conceived the idea for Anthem.By the late 1930s, science-fiction was no longer a novelty, but the dystopian nature of Anthem, the idea of technological regression in the future and the social implications of the loss of civilization may have surprised readers. Therefore, its publication was preceded by We the Living, and followed by her writing The Fountainhead.The novella already contains all the major elements of Rand's philosophy. Rand first developed her idea for the story during the early 1920s, before emigrating, but did not write the story down in its present form until the summer of 1937.
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