For this weeks' book I am going to change things up a bit and instead of writing a paragraph about what I think about the book. I will include a lot of quotes for you to get the vibe of the book and a short synopsis. Anthem by Ayn Rand is about a society destroyed by collectivism, where individuals exist only to contribute to the well-being of society. In the novel, everyone is forced to be equal and to think the same thing. Individuality is a sin payed with ones life's. They don't even have names and refer to themselves as "we" and "us" instead of "I" or "me".
"It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think works no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own."
"There was no pain in their eyes and no knowledge of the agony of their body. There was only joy in them, and pride, a pride holier than it is fit for human pride to be."
"Many men in the Homes of the Scholars have had strange new ideas in the past . . . but when the majority of their brother Scholars voted against them, they abandoned their ideas, as all men must."
“[I]f this should lighten the toil of men . . . then it is a great evil, for men have no cause to exist save in toiling for other men.”
“I am. I think. I will.”
"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."
This is a cute little fan-made video that gives a trailer into the book as accurately as possible: https://youtu.be/Q8FWwNmoyn0
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