Ayn Rand's Anthem: Is Equality Equal?

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Imagine getting a job that downgrades your sense of knowledge and understanding of everything to make you feel as equal to everyone else. Equality’s life was set to him not being able to express his knowledge or expand onto knowing greater things about his society because he was “different” from everyone else. The council fears what Equality would be capable of doing if he made it into the House of Scholars. So, as a sense of motivation at making him equal, he is given a job of no special talents.

Has anyone ever given you a task to stop you from expressing your amazing talents or gifts? In the society of the book Anthem, you were given jobs such as a Street Sweeper or Peasant if you had much knowledge and considered a genius. Choices like

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Ayn Rand was born and raised in Russia at the beginning of the Holocaust. She had no choice but to witness the horror of genocide unfold as she tried to live her life. Therefore, her unique philosophy was created from experience rather than preference. There is no doubt Anthem is intended to portray the future of the world, but whether Anthem will become reality will ultimately be decided by the actions of civilians. In Anthem, Ayn Rand often emphasizes the point that no man in society can refer…

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Even though Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” and Rand’s Anthem look and sound completely different, they share some key ideas in them. “Harrison Bergeron” was published in 1961 while Anthem was published in 1938. “Harrison Bergeron” tells the story of a future society in which everyone is handicapped to keep them equal. Anthem tells the story of a civilization that regressed in technology and individualism does not exist. In both Ayn Rand’s Anthem and Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”, even though…

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