LA-Anthem
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- egoism
- "The only things which taught us joy were the power we created in the wires and the Golden Ond. And both these joys belong to us alone..." Rand 97
- Individualism
- "I wished to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being, and no word of sanctions upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction." Rand 109
- Altruism
- "If you are not needed by your brother men, there is not reason for you to burden the earth with your bodies" (Rand 18)
- Collectivism
- "We are one una ll and all in one. There are not men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever" (Rand 14)
- Independence
- " We forget all men, all laws and all things save our metals and wires. So much is still to be learned! So long a road lies before us, and what care if we must travel it alone." (Rand 56)
- Anthem is an allegory because
- It is fictionalized, it presents a philosophical idea, the characters within the text are symbolic
- Anthem is not a
- work which promotes Socialism
- Ayn Rand's view of ego
- an appropriate pride in one's self
- Not a reflection of Rand's belief system
- Humanity is inevitably doomed to social failure and moral collapse
- Most evil word in language
- WE
- sacred word
- Ego
- names given the narrator
- Equality 7-2521, The Unconquered, Promethius
- the narrator meets The Golden One
- in a field
- the narrator kills the bird in the Unchareted Forest with a
- rock
- the word learned by reading books left in the house from Unmentionable Times
- I
- Promethius
-
a man who took light from the
Gods and brought it to mankind - Gaea
- The mother of the earth and all the Gods
- narrator is a disciple of
- The Transgressor of the Unspeakable Word
- "...all men are one and there is no will save the will of all men together"
- The Great Truth
- The great Transgression and the root of all evil
- Being alone
- At the end, the narrator does not plan to
- harm Collective 0-0009
- the narrator discovers electricity
- when he dissects a frog and hangs it on a copper wire. It moves
- " a close association of nations or other groups, formed to advance common interests"
- alliance
- the narrator decides to break out of the Palace of Corrective Detention because
- The World Council is meeting and he feels compelled to show his invention to them
- the Council's response to the narrator's invention
- they wanted to destroy it because it was not invented by the socially designated inventors
- At the end
- Gaea is pregnant
- the "body of all truth"
- The World Council
- I one says the "unspeakable word"
- the transgressor is put to death
- what caused the white flame
- sunlight
- When does the Golden One come to the Uncharted Forest?
- 2 days after the narrator fled there
- portals
- entrance
- transgression
- sin
- froths
- foams
- mandate
- law/orders
- impotence
- weakness, inability
- lassitude
- weariness, exhaustion
- sage
- wise person
- shackled
- chained
- taut
- tight
- Author of Anthem
- Ayn Rand
- dais
- platform of a celebrity
- original vocation of narrator
- scholar
- narrator escaped the Council of Scholars by
- putting fist through the window
- narrator called his invention
- glass box
- 40 year old man in Anthem's society was sent
- to the Home of the Useless
- same value as another
- equality
- Anthem's time period
- the future
- Age when one could leave the Home of the Students
- 15