Individualism, Modern Capitalism, And Dystopian Visions

29 August 2022
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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.
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I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned. Which best explains the philosophical concept reflected in the excerpt?
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This excerpt reflects capitalism, because it emphasizes an exchange based on free will.
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Ayn Rand, author of Anthem, would most likely agree with which statement?
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The rights of an individual are more important than the rights of a group.
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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. Based on the excerpt, it can be inferred that the narrator believes that
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men surrendered to conformity and gave up their own freedom.
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According to the themes in Anthem, which word is the most destructive to human progress?
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we
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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
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But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else. Based on the philosophical concepts expressed in the excerpt, the narrator would most likely support a government that
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allows man to make his own decisions and live with the consequences.
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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
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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?
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The comparison of the word "We" to limestone helps to develop the theme that a collective society destroys humankind's potential.
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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.