Aspects of Society in Ayn Rand's "Anthem." Three paragraphs about emotion, recreation, and education.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 04:05:56
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (536 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (536 words)
The society in Anthem has chosen to address education by forming houses for children and then sending them off to jobs that their administrators choose for them. The House of the Students is place to which children are sent to at the age of five for learning. In this structure, children learn that, "'We are nothing. Mankind is all'" (21). After the House of Learning, at fifteen years old, the Council of Vocations assigns each child …
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…games, a play is shown and it and it is "about toil and how good it is" (28). Everywhere in the city, there is propaganda. There is no other source of recreation in the city. Because of this, Equality 7-2521 seeks and finds his secret hiding place away from everyone else. The society in Anthem has chosen to meet the human need of recreation with propaganda and forms of communication that instill that everyone is equal.
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