Anthem By Ayn Rand: Movie Analysis

Is it common for teens today to feel controlled all the time? Anthem by Ayn Rand is a story based in the future where people lived in a controlled space and are not allowed to leave. They aren’t even allowed to interact with the other gender, and they don’t know how to say the word “I”. The Giver directed by Phillip Noyce is also based in a future where people have no memory of what has happened in the past and they live in a controlled environment that no one has ever left. Anthem and The Giver are popular with today 's teens because they can relate to being controlled all the time.

Have you ever thought about what our society is going to look like in, say fifty years? Many people do especially teenagers, they think about it and that is why books with a dystopian societies are popular among teenagers. This is something that every person thinks about at least once, and that is why they stay so popular even after being written for so many years, they just appeal to the teenage mind. The main question is why does dystopian literature appeal so much to the young adults, what is making dystopian literature so entertaining? Teenagers feel like they can relate or think, what if this was to really happen? The authors Ayn Rand and Veronica Roth promote individualism and selfless acts in the novels they wrote, but sometimes that is not always the best thing. After all these years, reading and writing dystopian literature is still

Imagine living in a world where people are unable to think for themselves and can only carry out actions that will better everyone else. That world is a collectivist society in which Ayn Rand forces her characters to live in her book. Anthem can be defined as a dystopian book because of the setting characterization, and the amount of government control.

In the book, “The Anthem”, the government has found a way to maintain peace and harmony in society by instilling fear into its constituents. The members of this society are taken from their parents at birth and thrown into a world where differences are frowned upon and sameness is put above all other things, brainwashing each child with the notion that everything the government says is true. When children are born, they are denied bonding time with their parents and placed in the “Home of Infants” with other children their age and the idea of sameness is stressed. By doing this, they take away the emotion of love, among other things, and in turn, create a society of seemingly identical individuals.

Different feelings and emotion are not known in the community within the people.The Giver and Jonas are the only true people that know how to feel the different emotions. Every night at the conclusion of their evening meal one of the rituals is the evening telling of feelings. In the very first Chapter Jonas talks about how it was almost December and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. But then thought that was the wrong word to use. Frightened ment that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen. Now that it was almost upon Jonas he wasn't frightened but he was eager he decided. He was eager and excited. But then their was a little shudder of nervousness when he thought about what might happen at the ceremony of twelve. Apprehensive, Jonas decided. That's what I feel like. (chapter 1)

“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose and to do it courageously.” This quote by Dr. Steve Maraboli states that life has a purpose that you have to reach out to. The objects in life are growth and the discovery of new things, and that can’t happen unless you push your limitations. The main character, Jonas, in Lois Lowry’s The Giver goes through a similar encounter when he is specially selected as the Receiver of Memories for his community. With his assignment as the Receiver, Jonas begins to see his community differently and its absence in color, feeling, and choices. In order to live your life, you have to uncover new things, and when that happens, it will open a door for more things to discover.

Have you ever watched a movie that you couldn’t stop watching or even read a book you would never fall asleep during? Modern day teens are connecting to both of these dystopian literature they are amazing for teens to connect to on a personal level. The Anthem and The Giver are the most connected to a lot of for several reasons. They give you a way to put yourself in their position, either in a book or a movie. The Giver, directed by Phillip Noyce was a lot more up to date than Anthem. It shows all the cool inventions that were created. Their lives are a lot different than you would think. They are isolated and told what to do for the rest of their lives and never have a choice of what they want to do.The main characters

In The Giver, Lois Lowry shows her readers what it is like to live in a society with no diversity, no color, and no freedom. In this society, there is a twelve-year old boy, named Jonas, who finds the truth about life outside of his community. He does not have the option of choice, and he is stuck in a futuristic world of “sameness”. Jonas’ world is dull, and he wants to change it because it does not have the amazing features and opportunities that he learns about. In this story, Lois Lowry is warning her readers that too much conformity can lead to no freedom and no true happiness.

A Dystopian society between the real word and the book “Anthem” have a unique set of differences and similarities. In North Korea it’s structure is known as SongBun, a society as to which their ruler is the person they must worship and make all living sacrifices to please their “God”, however in the book “Anthem”, by Ayn Rand, they must live in a society where they must love all brothers as one and only one whole. In one law that’s unique in their own that they share is that they must obey or be given death as punishment. Nor shall they question what they are given as their career. The people in the society between them are different, yet the amount of love they believe is the “right belief” is equal. Though they are both considered as a

“No two leaves are alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches which they will grow”(Mahatma Gandhi) The book Anthem by Ayn Rand and Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut are both dystopian pieces which display equality in different ways. Although Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut and Anthem by Ayn Rand are both pieces of dystopian literature their portrayal of family differs greatly.

Anthem by Ayn Rand is about a young boy named Equality 7-2521, age 21. Who had recreated electricity, and wanted to show the council to get himself into the home of the scholars. He terrified them all and ran off into the uncharted forest. Where he sees a house full of books. It all finally leads him to believe that you are not free, if you’re not free of your brothers.

In Anthem, there are many characteristics of dystopian literature present. The whole society is programmed to worship the Great “We”. Independent thought has been outlawed, “..it is a sin to think differently than other men” (4) They all fear the outside world also known as the Uncharted Forest, and nobody that has gone to this forest has ever come back. To think differently is a great transgression or a sin. It is against the rules because every man is supposed to agree on everything as a Great We.

A dystopian society is degrading to the human population. One figurehead is in control and persuades the citizens to follow their beliefs. As stated in Ayn Rand’s 1930s novella, “ We all are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE. One individual, and forever.” Anthem, a dystopian novella, by Ayn Rand, takes place in a futuristic society. The main characters are Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000. This novella has many conflicts, however the main conflict is, Equality is different and wants to be his own individual, but the society does not allow individuality. Nazi- Germany and the fictional society portrayed in Anthem and share similar dystopian characteristics including propaganda is used to control the citizens

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Both Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, and Ayn Rand, author of Anthem, offer their readers insights into problems that can occur from governmental control through the dystopian societies established in their novels. In Fahrenheit 451, the main character, Montag, lives in a society in which books are illegal and people are pressured to watch television all day by other people and by government propaganda. Anthem tells the story of Equality 7-2521, a man who lives in a collectivist society but performs experiments as an individual, so the government imprisons him. The futuristic societies in

Anthem and harrison bergeron have major differences in their societies, and become a dystopia. You can 't make a society greater by making everyone equal, using people 's differences to their advantage is how people should really live. There is no point in living if you are living with hatred or living in fear.The people should live in happiness but there is also not perfect world on everyone being happy. As Martin Luther King Jr. said… “The time is always right to do whats