Anthem

Anthem Fear. Its in all the peoples minds and hearts in Ayn Rand’s Anthem. It is a fear like the kind that lots of slaves kept by a single master have, or the millions of people in concentration camps that were maintained by a measly hundred or thousand. It is the fear to rebel against an already accepted fate. Once this fear is accepted, it condemns generation after generation, and until it is stopped, …showed first 75 words of 967 total…

…showed last 75 words of 967 total…themselves the nature that which they are accepting...” She goes on to give us a novel that shows these thoughts. Living in a world like that of Anthem’s would be bitter and cold, boring and desolate without individuality or creativity. The last resort? Ayn Rand, and others who would be strong enough to be leaders, just like Equality 7-2521. They are the lights at the ends of the eternally dark tunnels. They are hope.