Ayn+Rand


 * Ayn Rand with her //Anthem//**



**__Who is Ayn Rand?__** //- ////-Any Rand // was a Russian-American writer who was born in 1905. A lso she was a controversial philosopher . She is known for her two best-selling novels //[|The Fountainhead]// and //[|Atlas Shrugged]// because these two books developed her philosophical system of [|Objectivism]. Overall, she is important for not only the time she lived but still now.

** __About Ayn Rand life with writing:__ ** l //Ayn Rand//’s family life when she spent in Russia, was destroyed by the //[|Bolshevik party]// which under[| Vladimir Lenin]. Ayn Rand witnessed both the Kerensky which she supported and __Bolshevik Revolution__ which she denounced. As result of this she decided to escape from this trouble society to her dream country, __America__, which she regarded as a model of freedom from a high school class.

l Later, in university, //Ayn Rand// suffered disruption of __free__ [|inquiry]. To gain some pleasure, Ayn Rand joined __State Institute for Cinema Arts__ in 1924 to study screenwriting. At the same time, she published her first booklet, __Pola Negri (1925)__ and a booklet tit led “__Hollywood: American Movie City"__.

l Once, fortunately, //Ayn Rand// had a great chance to America, she told __Soviet __ authorities that she would come back later. In fact, she wondered not come back to Russia again. //Ayn Rand// spent her days with relatives in __Chicago__. Then she left to __Hollywood__ to start her new life as a screenwriter.

 l After many ye ars in __Hollywood__, she published her first stage play.For her first but the most auto biological novel was completed in 1934, __//[|We the Living]//__ which based on her life under __Soviet tyranny__.However, none of publishers accepted her work. Until __The Macmillan Company__ in the United States and __Cassells and Company__ in England published the book in 1936.

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 120%; text-align: justify;"> l <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">//Ayn Rand// formally took to writing after __//We the living//__. As another one of the most famous books written by //Ayn Rand//, __//The Fountainhead//__, she presented the idea “man could be and ought to be”. In addition, this book became the best seller over world and soon it gained attention of her philosophy, [|Individualism]. For another book, __//Atlas Shrugged//__ also was her great achievement. She put her unique philosophy __Obejectlism__, which states the meaning for living in this world, into this book.The contents of every book she published was not only carried her own her realistic experience about her livehood but also reflected the society in Russia.

<span style="color: #234d23; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%; text-align: justify;"> ** __The novel of //Anthem://__ ** Ø **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">When was the story written? ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">--In 1937

Ø **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What this story about? ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">//-//-//Equality 7-2521//, commits the unpardonable crime—[|independent]thought—he sets himself in conflict with the moral strictures of his world—a world in which all expressions of [|individualism] have been suppressed, where the very word “I” has been banished from the language—a world of joyless, [|selfless] men permitted to exist only for the sake of serving the group.

<span style="color: #234d23; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">** __Theme about //Anthem//:__ ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">--Ayn Rand supposed to show the glory and the meaning of man’s ego. For another hand, Ayn Rand emphasized the socialism ironically.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In conclusion, Ayn Rand seek to provide men or those who care to think—with an integrated, consistent and rational view of life. The person she created in //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Anthem, Equality //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">, is a person full of intelligence and curiosity. At first, he follows the __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Counci __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">l. Later, he notices that he must live for himself and find the meaning of exciting in this world. This protagonisit has the similar <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 24px;">spirit <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> as Ayn Rand. Of course, this character is based on Ayn Rand's her own personality and the men from the history,(example:Leonardo Davinci, Renaissance, Prometheus,Thomas Edison <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ) who has big influence to Ayn Rand. She placed her spirit into the character of //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Anthem. // <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Similarities__  |||| <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">--Born in a controlled society <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">--Both are strugglers <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">--They are full with confidence, courageousness,and intelligence <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">--Escape from one place to another place <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">--Come up with new ideas by <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">themselves <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">--Seek for own happiness & meaning <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">--Become an important part of society || <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">--Ayn Rand had a family. || <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">--Equality lives in the future <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">--Equality does not have family ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Ayn Rand ||  __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Equality __  ||
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Differences __ || <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">--Ayn Rand lived now(The time she lived)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In fact, the whole story were related Ayn Rand’s thoughts. The book of Anthem is a success that is unprecedented in the past and shall remain unparalleled in the future.

<span style="color: #234d23; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">__**More detail:**__ __**<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: justify;">Born in a controlled society & became important to their society: **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">--Throughout the biography of Ayn Rand, Ayn Rand suffered the __// Bolshevik party //__which was under the __ //Vladimir Lenin// __. She was sick of living in such a society which people lost their freedom and to be pressured of censorship. As result of this, this kind of experience inspired // Ayn Rand // to write the book about the [|Individualism] and [|Objectivism] to notivate people whose thought was imprisoned. // Ayn Rand // chased her own seek in her whole life—not living for others but for own self. After she published her novels, people paid a lot of attention to her not just because her writing skill, but also for her philosophy by public opinion. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">--The person Ayn Rand created in //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Anthem, Equality //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, is a person full of intelligence and curiosity. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This Council controls the citizens. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">At first, he follows the __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Counci __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">l. Later, Equality notices that he must live for himself and find the meaning of exciting in this world. He starts to against the rule to make the "crime". This protagonisit has the similar spirit as Ayn Rand. **__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">They are full with confidence, courageousness, and intelligence: __**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">--Ayn Rand was an intelligent writer. At the age of six, she taught self to read. People lived in her country, Russia, suffered from the social system. As we know, people lived in that time seldom dare to do something againsts their society. However, Ayn Rand, a woman, she tried to escape from this society, and tries to repudiate this society, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> She did it—by writing books of satire in social system. This was amazing and heart-stirring. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> --Equality, a smart man, he invents the electricity with his own hands, though the Council told him “The things we know are exist, the things we do not know are not exist. ” Ar first, Equality follows the society rule as naturally. Because of an opportunity, he comes up the doubts with human’s truth. Gradually, he makes a lot of crime, but these are the things he thinks are right.Until the last, he finds out real self to ego.

<span style="color: #234d23; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">** __Ayn Rand's four philosophies:__ **
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> 1. ////<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Metaphysics Objective Reality // ** ** //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> 2. ////<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Epistemology Reason // ** ** //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> 3. ////<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Ethics Self-interes ////<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">t // ** ** //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> 4. ////<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Politics Capitalism // **

__** //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Metaphysics Objective Reality: // **__ <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> -What is reality? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Reality exists as an obeject—facts are facts, we cannot change that. Human’s feeling, wishes, hope, desire or fear can be found as an object. However, we could not discuss them easily. // Evidence: // //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“We are one in all and all in one. // //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">There are no men but only the great WE, // //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">One, indivisible and forever” (page 19, Anthem) //

**<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Epistemology Reason: ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> -What is knowledge and how do we get it? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> Reason is the basis for getting knowledge and the standard of measurement. We understand the knowledge by using our own eyes, ears, mouth, a sense of touch and nose. Those organs convey the messages to our brain. Then the brain analyzes them. // Evidence: // l <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Through many tests, Equality found that the dead frog moved while electricity was sent to the copper through the brine of the frog’s body. l <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Equality finds out the ego by himself. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">//Ayn Rand// wanted people to find the reasons, the knowledge by their own. Only we understood them we could remember and know their meanings.

**<span style="display: inline !important; text-align: left;">//__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Ethics Self-interest: __// ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">--How should I live? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> It indicates that every person exists as an individual, without being run by others. People should always strive for their own happiness without sacrificing others.

// Evidence: // //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“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”(page 95, Anthem) // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Ayn Rand said man must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor scarifying others to himself.

**//__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Politics Capitalism __//** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">--How should society be organized? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> The society focuses on freedom, market and trade without using any physical force.

// Evidence: // (Negative): l <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The council controls all the things what do they do. l <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Not allowed to pay attention on female. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Russian society which Ayn Rand lived was like this, Ayn Rand used her novel to point out the bad influence of this society.

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