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Ayn Rand and Anthem

Ayn Rand and Anthem. An Introduction. Ayn Rand Biography. B. St. Petersburg Russia 2 February 1905. Started reading French novels and discovered her favorite heroes in these books. Her favorite author was Victor Hugo, whom she eventually met. Ayn Rand Biography (cont.).

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Ayn Rand and Anthem

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  1. Ayn Rand and Anthem An Introduction

  2. Ayn Rand Biography B. St. Petersburg Russia 2 February 1905 Started reading French novels and discovered her favorite heroes in these books. Her favorite author was Victor Hugo, whom she eventually met.

  3. Ayn Rand Biography (cont.) Rand decided to become an author at the age of nine. She shunned the Russian style of writing and considered herself a European writer.

  4. Ayn Rand Biography (cont.) During Rand’s high school years she was witness to two revolutions… The first: The Kerensky Revolution: Supported The second: The Bolshevik Revolution: Denounced

  5. Ayn Rand Biography (cont.) With the final Communist Victory: -Father’s pharmacy was confiscated -Periods of near starvation for the family Ayn Rand was introduced to American History during her final year of high school. She embraced America as her model for what a nation of free men could be.

  6. Ayn Rand Biography… • Studied at the University of Petrograd • Graduated in 1924 with degrees in philosophy and history • After communists overtook the university, Rand studied screenwriting at the State Institute for Cinema Arts.

  7. Ayn Rand Biography (cont.) Rand left Russia in 1926 determined to never return. She arrived in New York in February and spent the next six months in Chicago with relatives. After extending her visa, Rand moved to Hollywood to begin a career as a screenwriter.

  8. Ayn Rand Biography (cont.) After a day in Hollywood, Cecil B. DeMille offered Rand her first job. After the first week, Rand met her future husband, Fank O’Connor. They were married in 1929; they were married until his death fifty years later.

  9. Rand’s Novels We the Living (1936) Anthem (1938) The Fountainhead (1943) Atlas Shrugged (1957)

  10. ANTHEM From the cradle to the grave, the crowd was one-the great WE.

  11. What messages are there in the book Anthem? What are the themes? Communism is negative. There is no strength in the collective. Capitalism is positive. Everything can be achieved when you work for the good of the self. Individuality: Ego is the symbol of man’s self.

  12. Who is the hero of Anthem? The hero is somebody who is fearless, one who will stand up for the self, not the society. The hero is searching for his own identity. The closest thing to a climax in the book is when the hero discovers the word- I. This is not an existential action, but an internal event.

  13. Why the title of Anthem? Anthem has religious overtones. The religion of man? Working title: Ego Ego was used for its exact literal meaning-man’s self. Ego is the mind or the conceptual faculty. Ego is reason. Ego constitutes the essential identity of the human being.

  14. Who is the villain in Anthem? The villain in this book in not one specific person, but instead is the society or the political climate and system in which the hero is living. Although there are specific names of people mentioned, the different villains are simply pawns in the game of the society. There is no one person to blame for the way thing are.

  15. Objectivism: A philosophy for living on earth.

  16. Metaphysics: Objective Reality Epistemology: Reason Ethics: Self-interest Politics: Capitalism ESSENCE OF OBJECTIVISM

  17. In Common English… Metaphysics: Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. Epistemology: You can’t eat your cake and have it too. Ethics: Man is an end in himself. Politics: Give me liberty or give me death.

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