Anthem

Joseph Pannick
Political Thinking
9/30/03
Professor Aichele
Anthem
Anthem is a starling account of what can go wrong in today’s society. Anthem is an account of a collective society world wide. In many people’s view individualism and self-gratification is the most essential joy of human essence. The book tells of strictly enforced collective society run by an elite intolerant totalitarian government. There is an anti-Marxist undertone throughout the whole book which almost defiantly stemmed from Rands experience with the communist party rise to power in her native country of Russia.
Anthem relates on numerous levels a form of seeking one’s own way, following one’s human essence. The main character, Equality 7-2521 is a citizen of a collective society. 7-2521 a rebelling sense of Exploration and self-interest, which is outlawed by the collective. Anything not done together is damned to fail according to the state. One of the events that disenfranchise...