Individualism, Modern Capitalism, and Dystopian Visions

Question 1

Which excerpt from Anthem best supports the theme that man’s spirit is unconquerable?

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Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth.

Question 2

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

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reinforcing individualism since the individual “man” is oppressed by the collective “men.”

Question 3

In Anthem, the narrator’s name, Equality 7-2521, helps to develop a theme that

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individuality is lost in a collective society.

Question 4

Read the excerpt from Anthem.I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.The excerpt supports the theme of

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reflective connections

Question 5

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?

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Collectivism

Question 6

But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word “I,” could give it up and not know what they lost.

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men surrendered to conformity and gave up their own freedom.

Question 7

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?

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People who prefer collective thought are unable to contribute new ideas to mankind’s progress.

Question 8

According to the themes in Anthem, which word is the most destructive to human progress?

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we

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