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.Īnthem 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. Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand the. They were conceived in controlled Palaces of Mating. It is the story of one man’s rebellion against a totalitarian, collectivist society. Read online: Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in England. 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.Īll 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. We offer seven books in various formats for middle graders and up that do not offer one-on-one substitutions for Ayn Rands Anthem, but will certainly. Anthem is Ayn Rand’s classic tale of a dystopian future of the great Wea world that deprives individuals of a name or independencethat anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Anthem is Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego.” It is the story of one man’s rebellion against a totalitarian, collectivist society. Ayn Rands classic tale of a dystopian future of the great We-a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence-that anticipates her later.

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