Monday, December 12, 2016

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in England. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age characterized by irrationality, collectivism, and socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all) and the concept of individuality has been eliminated.
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  1. Avalon Triumvirate AcademyDecember 12, 2016 at 10:15 AM

    What did Ayn Rand mean by the working title of "Ego"?

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    1. KeaganDecember 12, 2016 at 4:48 PM

      Ayn Rand used this term for her working title because it was the premise of the book, in which the humans within the story do not or are not supposed to have. The citizenzs or may I say slaves in the story are completely stripped or their though their sense of self or Ego.

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    2. KahlaDecember 16, 2016 at 8:38 PM

      Ayn Rand thinks highly of self-esteem and self-importance. She upholds her philosophy and her heroes which are reason, values, individualism, and volition.

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  2. Avalon Triumvirate AcademyDecember 12, 2016 at 10:15 AM

    Why did she edit the book before American publication?

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    1. KeaganDecember 12, 2016 at 4:51 PM

      She ended up editing Anthem before publishing in America because. After the first few people had read the story she got feedback saying that. The book was being unfair to the ideals of collectivism and was not portraying them correctly.

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    2. KahlaDecember 16, 2016 at 8:40 PM

      She edited the book for style changes because she had perfected English.

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    3. Avalon Triumvirate AcademyDecember 17, 2016 at 8:03 PM

      Interesting to know that even "good, professional" authors have to edit for style!

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  3. Avalon Triumvirate AcademyDecember 13, 2016 at 2:34 PM

    From the first assignment a week ago, what are your definitions of the words: CONTROL, CONFORMITY, EQUALITY, and INDIVIDUALISM? What is the ideas like? What are some examples of each?

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  4. KahlaDecember 13, 2016 at 9:40 PM

    Control: Being able to own and control something. An example would be having a sibling.

    Conformity: Being able to change. An example, moving to a new school or environment.

    Equality: Being the same as someone or something. An example would be the whole men and woman thing.

    Individualism: Wanting to be alone or stay away from people. An example would be being a hermit.

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  5. KeaganDecember 13, 2016 at 10:13 PM

    Control: The ability make something do what you will it. Example: a puppet be it in a political sense or theatrical.
    Conformity: in compliance with the socially accepted behavior and rules. Example: "Fitting in" at a school, and or community.
    Equality: Sameness being just like everything/one else. Example: A cloned group of something. Almost nothing has complete equality in nature.
    Individualism: The quality of being ones own self or not equal as others. Example: Tj (Or at least what he strives for)

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  6. Avalon Triumvirate AcademyDecember 14, 2016 at 9:45 AM

    How would your teachers react if you had Equality's curse? Why do Equality's teachers disapprove of his quick mind?

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    1. KeaganDecember 18, 2016 at 8:05 PM

      I think that most teachers would react very positively to Equality's "curse", but in that society being different from your brothers is quite frowned upon.

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  7. Avalon Triumvirate AcademyDecember 14, 2016 at 9:45 AM

    Would you want to be friends with someone like Equality? Why or why not?

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    1. KeaganDecember 18, 2016 at 8:08 PM

      Just by the fact of him being smart and wanting to gain knowledge I think that he would be a fine friend. Because I like when people strive to be the best they can be.

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  8. UnknownDecember 18, 2016 at 9:29 AM

    I wouldent want to be friends with someone from equality. they seem shallow. his teachers would think hes to smart.

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  9. Avalon Triumvirate AcademyJanuary 11, 2017 at 8:33 AM

    Please share your chapter 7 plot event, quote (page # paragraph #, and first & last word of actual quote so we can find it). Then what you think about that quote as a new comment. Everyone else should reply to those anything you would like to say in addition to what the poster quoted.

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  10. KeaganJanuary 11, 2017 at 4:23 PM

    For the first event: pg68 paragraph one the first and last words being It and Beasts. This is the first paragraph of the chapter. It was very surprising to me when it started off with this. Immediately I was thinking that either he couldn't go through with bringing the light to the council or that he got found out by someone else before he could.

    For the second event: pg77 the second paragraph the first and last words are Then and Name. At this point I thought that Equality has completely given up any sense of hope and was going to go and die off in the forest, but he must not just go off and die because there is still a sizable amount of book left to read

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