Character List

Equality 7-2521 (Prometheus) The hero of the story. He is a man of unbending independence living in a dark age of a future totalitarian state. The state commands him to be a Street Sweeper, but he is fascinated by science and secretly performs research on his own. He discovers the […]

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About Anthem

Anthem is an outstanding introduction to Ayn Rand’s philosophy of human nature. The novella’s theme and central conflict — the individual versus the collective — occurs in all her novels and is an important element of her moral and political philosophy. The story of Anthem takes place in an unnamed […]

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Book Summary

The story of Anthem takes place in some unspecified future time and place in which freedom and individual rights have been obliterated. Collectivism — the political philosophy holding that an individual exists solely to serve the state — is dominant and has led to the establishment of a global dictatorship […]

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