Ayn Rand's Anthem: Ways To Trick The Mind

Ways To Trick The Mind Throughout the world’s history, people have found potent ways to manipulate people's minds without them noticing. The book Anthem, was written in 1937 by Ayn Rand and published in 1938. Ayn Rand was born on February 2, 1905 in St. Petersburg. Through the book we notice that Equality 7-2521, who is different from everyone around him. He eventually finds an ancient subway and begins to learn what the elders have banned from the unmentionable times. At the end of the book Equality 7-2521 discovers the unmentionable word and the importance of one’s ego. Ayn Rand’s themes of the book are how easy it is to obtain someone's life and change their ways of thought. The people being enslaved lack individuality, which eventually Equality 7-5251 notices and realizes why he is so different from everyone else. In the book Anthem the elders brainwash the people by enslaving their minds, eradicating individuality and limiting their language.

Throughout, we witness constantly the dictators manipulation in the people's mind. The people are not allowed to envision anything about themselves, but only about them as a whole. “We are one in all, and one in all in one. There are no men, but only the great WE One, indivisible and forever” (Rand 19). The dictators have completely re-arranged their minds to foresee that is no self thought but only group thought. By that system you are limiting people to not do anything that will affect the thought as a whole. Ayn Rand throughout shows that the people in that world can only say WE, meaning that there is no such things as individuality. The elders also limit the country’s language, therefore they lack the pieces to achieve knowledge and