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 , 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 . 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?
Read the excerpt from Anthem , by Ayn Rand. What disaster took their reason away from men? What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word “We.” In the excerpt, which concept causes the downfall of humanity?
Read the excerpt from Anthem . Here, on this mountain, I and my sons and my chosen friends shall build our new land and our fort. And it will become as the heart of the earth, lost and hidden at first, but beating, beating louder each day. And word of it will reach every corner of the earth. And the roads of the world will become as veins which will carry the best of the world’s blood to my threshold. And all my brothers, and the Councils of my brothers, will hear of it, but they will be impotent against me. The imagery of “the heart” suggests what relationship between the society the narrator plans to build on the mountain and the outside world?
In Anthem , the narrator’s name, Equality 7-2521, helps to develop a theme that
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 . The word “We” is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. Which best states the effect of the imagery in the excerpt?
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?
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