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'Great Joy In Ayn Rand's Anthem'

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To begin with, Anthem takes place in a collectivist society in which people are not allowed to think for themselves and can’t do so anything with it being a group effort. They can only be motivated by the idea of helping their brothers. To not do so or want to do so can and will be met by a severe punishment or death some cases. Here is the main character (Equality) has built an invention that can help his brother but that is not his primary motivation. Which is frowned upon by the council even when it in the good of civilization. The essential source of Equality's "great joy" is self-achievement. He is extremely pleased that he has imagined something new that the House of Scholars has never observed. It will profit humankind in two or three
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