1. Anthem
by Ayn Rand

2. Who Am I?
Answer this question in your composition book.

3. Ayn Rand Born in Soviet Union 1905
Escaped from USSR in 1926 to the United States
Wrote Anthem in it shows how collectivism can take over a man’s individuality.

4. Anthem
It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think
and to put them down upon paper no others are to see…
There is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.”

5. Anthem is not just a depressing story but rather it is about:
The Triumph of the Individual’s Independent Spirit; the Triumph of those who reject the ethics of collectivism.

6. Who Am I?
Do my wants and needs come before the wants and needs of our society? Should what I want come before What is best for our society?

7. Collectivism
the practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it.
the theory and practice of the ownership of land and the means of production by the people or the state.

8. Individualism
1. the habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant.
self-centered feeling or conduct; egoism.
2. a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control.

9. Utopian Society-Ideal (perfect)
What would your Utopia look like?

10. Anti-Utopia The world presented is the world as it should not be.
It is the worst possible society
Society is tyrannical yet has a highly technological economy
It is a stagnant and primitive society in which there can be no growth or prosperity

11. Prometheus
Prometheus was one of the Titans. He stole the sacred fire from Zeus and the gods. Prometheus did not tell Zeus
In punishment, Zeus commanded that Prometheus be chained for eternity in the Caucasus. There, an eagle (or, according to other sources, a vulture) would eat his liver, and each day the liver would be renewed.
                              

12. Gaea Gaea, or Mother Earth,
was the great goddess of the early Greeks. She represented the Earth
and was worshipped as the universal mother.

13. Key Facts Type of Work: Novella
Genre- Dystopia; manifesto; romantic realism
Narrator: Equality
Point of View: First person (without the use of “I”
Tone: Straightforward manner, no trace of irony
Tense: Present tense

14. Continued Setting (time)- future
Setting (place) an unidentified city (tunnel underground for most of the story and then it moves to the forest)
Antagonist- Society
Protagonist: Equality
Conflict: internal (struggle for self identity)
Rising action: Equality discovers a tunnel
And begins hiding in it to write and conduct experiments. He tries to share his invention

15. continued
Climax- Equality presentation of the light-bulb to the World Council permanently severs him from society and forces him out onto his own.
Falling Action- Equality and the Golden One pursue their lives together. They discover the meaning of “I”

16. Themes A central idea in a piece of writing or other work of art:
Primacy of the individual (ego)
Value of martyrdom (selflessness)
Impotence of the collective Original creation as a component of identity
Free will vs Determinism

17. Motifs a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc.
Fear
Naming
Shapelessness

18. It shows the universal problems and values of human existence
Symbols a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.
Light
Forest
Manuscripts
Genre
Romantic Realism
It shows the universal problems and values of human existence

19. Romanticism verses Naturalism
People are crushed by social forces and cannot
Control their own destiny
It is realism because it deals with real problems of normal people (not robots, monsters or super
Humans.

20. Foreshadowing Hint of things to come
>The death of the Transgressor foreshadows the torture and exile of Equality
Equality ’s obsession with Forest foreshadows his exile there;
The Golden One’s attempts to say “I love you” foreshadow the epiphany of her discovery of the word “I:”

21. Hero’s Journey