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Comparing The Mind, Body, And Self In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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In Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem, she writes about mind, body, and self in a collectivist point of view. In this text, Equality 7-2521 lives through his society. He is scolded for being smart and standing out from his brothers. He grows up and defies the laws and then runs away with his sweetheart they then become immune to their previous world in the forest. In a collectivist society there is p self, no opinions. Throughout the novel Anthem, Ayn Rand connects mind, body, and self as being one for the society. The society in this novella is for the whole of the society, and not for the self. There is only all. “We are in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, one, indivisible and forever.”(Rand 19) This a daily chant of all
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