![]() ![]() Citizens have no personal lives or loves they cannot choose friends or lovers. They are born in state-controlled hospitals, raised in state-controlled nurseries, educated in state-controlled schools, toil at state-assigned jobs, and sleep in massive barracks organized by the state. The citizens of this society are pawns without rights who exist as wards of the state. The hero, Equality 7-2521, is a brilliant young man who yearns to be a scientist, but who is commanded to be a Street Sweeper by a government that fears his independence of mind. The story of Anthem takes place in an unnamed Communist- or Fascist-like dictatorship of the future, where an individual has no rights, existing solely to serve the state. 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. ![]() Anthem is an outstanding introduction to Ayn Rand's philosophy of human nature. ![]()
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