Use a search engine of your choice to explore and define the following terms.īelow is a link to a PDF version of Anthem. Please read the first three pages and answer the following questions.ġ.) What is narrator doing at the beginning of the novel? Where is he?ģ.) What information are we given about the narrator?Ĥ.) Equality 7-2521 mentions words that are cut into the marble outside the Palace of the World Council. Please paraphrase and shorten the definitions. Please DO NOT write the definitions verbatim. Use this website to define the following words.
Please write a sentence or two about the narrator. Use this website to read about the unique narrator in Anthem. Use this website to explore and identify information about the following characters. Anthem anticipates the theme of Rand’s first best seller, The Fountainhead, which she stated as “individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man’s soul.” Obedience to the collective is so deeply ingrained that the very word “I” has been erased from the language. In pursuit of his quest for knowledge, Equality 7-2521 struggles to answer the questions that burn within him - questions that ultimately lead him to uncover the mystery behind his society’s downfall and to find the key to a future of freedom and progress.
Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand “the Science of Things.” But he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels. All expressions of individualism have been suppressed in the world of Anthem personal possessions are nonexistent, individual preferences are condemned as sinful and romantic love is forbidden. Use this website to answer the following questions about Ayn Rand.ġ.) How is Rand like her main character in Anthem?ĥ.) What was Rand's view on collectivism?Īnthem is Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego.” It is the story of one man’s rebellion against a totalitarian, collectivist society.
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