girlfriend

who was eqality 's girlfrind?

what it do

how did equality find the electricity?????

What does Equality want to do at the event?

Dark

When he is asked for the last time where he had been, what does he answer?

Why must Equality guard his tunnel?

The Dancing Grilles

What keeps dancing before Equality's eyes?

what is you staring at im not a mirror

Why was it easy to escape from the palace of Corrective Detention?

The Dungeon

Why was it easy to escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention?

whats really hood

What does equality 7-2521 means when he says the power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding?

The Creation

He has created it, he brought it forth from the night of the ages, he alone. what does that mean?

The Philosophy of the Writer of ANTHEM

On this picture, you see Pythagoras, the first philosopher.....


Ayn Rand, the author of our book ANTHEM, believed in a special philosophy called OBJECTIVISM.

She believed that facts and values were "objective" realities. A thinking person can only grasp them through reason. According to Rand, what you perceive is true if logic says so. Actions are ethical if they fulfill your needs as a thinking being.

Reason is the only basis for intellectual and moral judgments.

Ayn Rand did not believe in faith, and subjective feelings.

She believed that individual life formed the standard of all values, and "rational selfishness" was a person's appropriate motive.

In addition, Rand thought that capitalism was the only truly moral economic system.

Task 1: What do you think about her philosophy? Do you think that "reason" is everything? Do you think that "rational selfishness" is good for people? Do you have "faith"? Would you agree with her OBJECTIVISM, or would you be against it?

Task 2: Ayn Rand grew up in communist Russia. She liked capitalism, which is typical of America and the Western world. What do you think about capitalism?

Happiness and the American Dream

Look in your book on page 95. Equality says:

"... I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."

Task 1: What do you think, what does he mean by this?

Do you remember what the "American Dream" is? Have you heard the term "the pursuit of happiness" before? Task 2: Try to explain this term.

Task 3: What is your personal "American Dream"?

How will the book end?

We haven't read the last chapter yet. What do you think, how will the story end? (If you've read it already, you can say what really happens. Otherwise, invent it!)

We left off where Equality and the Golden One have found the house. What will their future look like? Will they be found by the society that believes in the great WE? What will they do? Will they find the secret word "I," and how?

Write a short paragraph.

Communism and Agriculture in East Germany...

Before the Berlin Wall came down, East Germany was very much like Russia. This is because after having lost the Second World War, West Germany was ruled by America, France, and England, and East Germany was ruled by Russia. Russia was Communist. Its agrarian system consisted of a community where all farmers owned all the machines, and all the gains from the harvest. A single farmer didn't own anything.

In East Germany, such agrarian communities were called LPG's (Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaften). You see one on the picture. All people worked for the good for all people. No single farmer could get rich.

Imagine you lived in East Germany or Russia at that time, and you were convinced that communism and LPG's are a good thing. What could have been good about everybody owning everything together? Write down a couple of reasons.