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Growing Up In Ayn Rand's 'Anthem'

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Which is worse: failing or never trying? That question is the one we all ask ourselves.I think that never try it is worse because you lock yourself in your comfort zone and in the end when not intending it you fail because you lose the opportunity know what will happen, you stay with the doubt and do not know if that could have been the best experience or a great achievement in your life. On the other hand, if you try and fail, you learn and if you learn improvements. First, this question is related when Equality, from Anthem, finds the mystery of light and instead of leaving his experiment, he continued investigating and thinking about the future of his brothers. Despite the fact that in the end Equality was banished from the city of his …show more content…

Prometheus was the god who stole fire and gave it to humans because they saw that they lived in darkness, he knew that for having stolen fire they could punish him but he did not care, he just wanted humans to act like humans. Sometimes it is necessary to try no matter if you fail, as it happened to Prometheus in the end the gods got angry and punished him, but the humans knew a new life that made them happy and independent. It is what happens in different situations of life that when trying something new we fail but while we are living the experience makes us very happy and although later we fail because the end is not what we expect. The good memories that we live are in our memory and although the experience caused us harm, there is something in our interior that would like to try again, no matter the failure. “Prometheus went boldly to see Zeus and begged him to fire the men, so they would not have a bit of it during the long and the winter months. He had disobeyed and given fire to the men. Un example is on the page 1 and 2 Zeus was very angry and ordered to chain a Prometheus to a mountain to suffer there for all eternity. And Prometheus remained, thinking about the future, happy knowing that he had given fire to men”. As we can see the attempt and although he received a punishment he was happy and that is the important thing, try so that maybe in

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