Read the excerpt from Anthem.Those men who survived—those eager to obey, eager to live for one another, since they had nothing else to vindicate them—those men could neither carry on, nor preserve what they had received. Thus did all thought, all science, all wisdom perish on earth. Thus did men—men with nothing to offer save their great number—lose the steel towers, the flying ships, the power wires, all the things they had not created and could never keep. What connection does the narrator make between collectivism and human invention?
Read the excerpt from Anthem.I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.Which best explains the philosophical concept reflected in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Anthem, by Ayn Rand.Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars.I am a man. This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before!The imagery of servitude and sacrifice reinforces the theme that the moral purpose of a person’s life is to
Read the excerpt from Anthem.But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.Based on the philosophical concepts expressed in the excerpt, the narrator would most likely support a government that
Read the excerpt from Anthem, by Ayn Rand.I do not surrender my treasures, nor do I share them. The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. The imagery of treasure and fortune helps to establish which theme?
Read the excerpt from Anthem.Perhaps they cried out in protest and in warning. But men paid no heed to their warning. And they, these few, fought a hopeless battle, and they perished with their banners smeared by their own blood. And they chose to perish, for they knew. To them, I send my salute across the centuries, and my pity. The imagery of “a hopeless battle” helps to develop the theme that group thinking limits man’s potential because it
Read the excerpt from Anthem, by Ayn Rand.I AM. I THINK. I WILL. My hands . . . My spirit . . . My sky . . . My forest . . . This earth of mine . . . What must I say besides? These are the words. This is the answer. Which best describes the narrator’s point of view?
Read the excerpt from Anthem. For the word “We” must never be spoken, save by one’s choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man’s soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all the evils on earth, the root of man’s torture by men, and of an unspeakable lie.The words “the root of man’s torture by men” develop the excerpt’s theme by
According to the themes in Anthem, which word is the most destructive to human progress?
Ayn Rand, author of Anthem, would most likely agree with which statement?
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