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Overview : Go back to our first blog, and walk through the 2018-2019 school year. Revisit the books we read and our class responses. Look...
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Overview : We have been reading a novel about a man named Equality-2527 . If Ayn Rand's novel, Anthem is a cautionary tale about the ...
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Directions : In this space, post your working thesis statement or concept and list of 10-12 Quotations you plan to use in your essay, list...
Peyton Levental
ReplyDeleteWhen prisoners are inside the Palace of Corrective Detention, I believe they will not escape even though the locks can be easily broken because they do not want to leave the “in crowd”. They are afraid to be different, because they are not enlightened and know better than to try to escape. But some prisoners might not even realize they are one. They might think they are there for a reason of purpose and not just to do their time because they've done something bad. Our society has squashed out feelings and our integrity to give us hope that you can get out, making you feel almost trapped inside your own body.
QUOTES:
1. “The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.” (fountainhead)
2. "Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do that which the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you. For the Council of Vocations knows in its great wisdom where you are needed by your brother men, better than you can know it in your unworthy little minds. And if you are not needed by your brother man, there is no reason for you to burden the earth with your bodies." (first pageish)
3. “There is no reason to have guards, for men have never defied the Councils so far as to escape from whatever place they were ordered to be.” (part six end)
4. “Men realizes he's incapable of what he's accepted as the noblest virtue- and it gives him a sense of guilt, of sin, of his own basic unworthiness.” (The soul of a collectivist)
5. “Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people.” - Robert Reich
6. “It was easy to escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention. The locks are old on the doors and there are no guards about.” (anthem end of 6)
7. “Its soul gives up its self respect. You’ve got him. He’ll obey. He’ll be glad to obey because he can’t trust himself, he feels uncertain, he feels unclean.” (The soul of a collectivist)
8. “Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.” - Ayn Rand
9. “Preach selflessness. Tell man that he must live for others.”(The soul of a collectivist)
10. “The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.” - Robert Reich
Drew Wachtel
ReplyDeleteI think that the prisoners never tried to escape because they didn’t want to get in even more trouble than they already are. Also I think that the Society didn’t think that anybody would try and escape because there was no locks on the doors or there were no guards guarding the prisoners so they won't escape. In real life Ayn Rand used the prison scene to say that people just go with what the system says and even if the system is wrong people are to scared to go out on their own and try and enlighten people on why it is wrong and maybe even how we could do something to help fix the system. This Scene in the book also relates to the documentary “ Inequality For All” because people in the middle class don’t suspect the government to take money from them and give it to the rich. The reason why people don’t think that the government does this is because they think that the rich gets their own money from their own companies and the government helps the people that are in poverty but it is the complete opposite. Overall sometimes people can be blind on what is really going on in the world because people think that everything is going perfectly in this country.
Quotes:
“Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.”
Robert Reich
“We blew out the candle. Darkness swallowed us. There was nothing left around us, nothing save night and a thin thread of flame in it, as a crack in the wall of a prison.”
Equality
"Take our brother Equality 7-2521 to the Palace of Corrective Detention. Lash them until they tell."
The council of scholars.
“Our discovery is too great for us to waste our time in sweeping the streets. We must not keep our secret to ourselves, nor buried under the ground.”
Equality
“We shall go to this Council and we shall lay before them, as our gift, this glass box with the power of the sky.”
Equality
“It was easy to escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention. The locks are old on the doors and there are no guards about.”
Equality
“True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.”
Robert Reich
“The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.”
Robert Reich
“Then we smiled, for we thought of the light and that we had not betrayed it.”
Equality
“the door opened twice each day, once for the men who brought us bread and water, and once for the Judges.”
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ReplyDeleteLucy Elerath~Prompt 2
In Ayn Rand's’ novel Anthem, the protagonist Prometheus is put in the Palace of Corrective Detention for spending time on an invention/discovery and being late to a group activity. None of the Detention doors have locks on them, the reason there are no locks on the doors and they are rusty is simply because no one has ever tried to escape. It’s like school, the door is wide open yet no one walks out. We are forced to go but there is nothing preventing us from getting up and leaving. What makes us not get up and leave, and what makes them not try to escape? In our society, we as kids have laws put in place making us go to school. The council feels that they are respected and feared enough to not lock the doors. The respect becomes a factor because everything they have and or needed was already there. The prisoners never escape because the society they live in is a fixed mindset and a collectivist society.
MY QUOTES:
1. Our discovery is too great for us to waste our time in sweeping the streets.-ch. 5
2. We must bring it into the sight of all men-ch. 5
3. We shall confess everything to them. They will see, understand and forgive.-ch. 5
4. We must wait. We must guard our tunnel as we had never guarded it before.-ch. 5
5. "Take our brother Equality 7-2521 to the Palace of Corrective Detention. Lash them until they tell."-ch. 6
6. The first blow of the lash felt as if our spine had been cut in two.-ch. 6
7. We counted each day and each night as it passed. Then, tonight, we knew that we must escape. For tomorrow the World Council of Scholars is to meet in our City.-ch.6
8. The locks are old on the doors and there are no guards about.-ch. 6
9. There is no reason to have guards, for men have never defied the Councils so far as to escape from whatever place they were ordered to be.-ch. 6
10. What matter they now, the scars upon our back!-ch. 6
11. “We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.” -Truman Burbank
Abhishek Sharma
ReplyDeleteThe old locks and lack of guards in the Palace of Corrective Detention indicate that prisoners never try to escape. Why do you think they do not?
The reason why the guards or the council think that the prisoners won’t escape because they think that the prisoners won’t betray them by escaping or breaking the law or no one has defied the council. A lot of people have never done this because they are afraid of what consequences will be if they defied the council or they don’t realize that they have the capability to do it. Also, the prisoner think that they actually committed a crime but they did not, they're just there for a stupid reason. This is related to the documentary inequality for all because people think everything is going alright no government giving their money to the rich but that is wrong the middle classes money is going to the rich and here we thought they get their own money.
Quotes:
Equality
“The locks are old on the doors and there are no guards about. There is no reason to have guards, for men have never defied the Councils.”
2. “We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.” Robert Reich
3. “Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people.” Robert Reich
4. "Are you ready to speak?" Council who send people to the Palace of Corrective Detention for stupid reasons.
5. “It's not the government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.”
Roberts Reich
6. I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better. Roberts Reich
7. When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else. Robert Reich
8. "Take our brother Equality 7-2521 to the Palace of Corrective Detention. Lash them until they tell." The council
9. True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
Roberts Reich
10. Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.
Roberts Reich
Julia Campbell ~ prompt 2
ReplyDeleteNo one attempts to diverge from the Palace of detention because there's nowhere to escape to. If they ever sought out of the misery that is their everyday life, where would they go, what would they do? These people have been handed everything they have in their life, there is no free thinking in their society, consequently, it is nearly impossible for someone in their society to leave on their own unless there was an aggregation of people doing so. The Prisoners do not escape because it is beyond their capabilities to change or even consider the possibility of freedom since it's all the same to them, real torture is practically the same as their everyday lives; That's why they stay.
~My Quotes~
“I understand that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him”
“To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.”
“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.”
“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. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.”
But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.”
“I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.”
“Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!”
“The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).”
“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”
“There is no danger in solitude.”
Ben worthley
ReplyDeleteI think people in the Palace of Corrective Detention because people might not think they are in prison or they know but they don’t have the urge to escape. Sometimes we don't know that we are in a metaphorical prison. The average american goes to school for 18 years of your life. Get up at 5:00 go to school at 6:15,leave and get home at 3:00. This is your life for 18 years. Then after you get a job in a cubicle somewhere get up at 6:00 go to work at 9:00 get home at 11:00. This is your life for ruffley 35 years. Until you retire at 62. Then you sit at home all day. Then at 95 you die. Throughout your life how much freedom do you have. In school the teachers are telling you what to do. When you get to the workforce your boss will be telling you what to do.
“If you learn how to rule one single man’s sou”
“Make man feel small”
“He’ll obey. He’ll be glad to obey”
“So you must be very sure to take it away from them. Cut the props from under it.”
“Everything I said is contained in a single word — collectivism”
“To act together. To think — together. To feel — together. To unite, to agree, to obey. To obey, to serve, to sacrifice. Divide and conquer — first. But then — unite and rule.”
“This makes one neck ready for one leash”
“Give up your soul to a council — or give it up to a leader.”
“My technique, Peter. Offer poison as food and poison as antidote.”
“ but don’t forget the only purpose you have to accomplish. Kill the individual. Kill man’s soul.”
Lucas Kaufman
ReplyDeleteBy the end of Ayn Rand’s “Anthem”, Prometheus has successfully broken off from the rest of society and started a life with Gaea, a life which is dedicated to himself and himself alone. Prometheus has found the enlightenment he has so desperately sought for the entire duration of the book, and he wishes for this gift of self to be bestowed upon all of society. He knows that this gift could not be less compatible with the collectivist, selfless structure of the society he escaped from, and so he knows that the journey to bring individualism back to the world will be long and hard. But Prometheus believes that he will prevail because he and his supporters in this fight will have motivation- hope for a better future where they can live how they want, pursue their own ambitions, and use their talents to benefit society as a whole, whereas the mindless robots fighting for the collectivists will not be motivated by any internal force- they will fight simply because it is the will of the society to resist change.
Quotes:
1. “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.” (94)
2. “I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars.” (95)
3. “Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth.” (103-104)
4. “I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.” (97)
5. “No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers, for his brothers rejected the gift he offered and that gift destroyed the slothful routine of their lives. His truth was his only motive. His own truth, and his own work to achieve it in his own way.” (“The Soul of an Individualist”)
6. “[Prometheus] took the light of the gods and he brought it to men, and he taught men to be gods. And he suffered for his deed as all bearers of light must suffer.” (99)
7. “Gaea is pregnant with my child. Our son will be raised as a man. He will be taught to say "I" and to bear the pride of it. He will be taught to walk straight and on his own feet. He will be taught reverence for his own spirit.” (100)
8. “For in the temple of his spirit, each man is alone. Let each man keep his temple untouched and undefiled. Then let him join hands with others if he wishes, but only beyond his holy threshold.” (96)
9. “We may not be able to do everything at once but think of each action you take as an incremental step towards the structural change our economy needs.” (“Inequality for All”)
10. “And the day will come when I shall break all the chains of the earth, and raze the cities of the enslaved, and my home will become the capital of a world where each man will be free to exist for his own sake.” (104)
ReplyDeleteSophia Lakos
In the world they live in not following the rules is completely unheard of. The guards don’t think anyone will ever try to escape since they are trained to not do something out of the normal. It has never happened in years past so they guards did not expect it to happen then. It is unheard of to be different so they are trusted.
“It was easy to escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention.”(part 6)
This quote shows that while in the Correction Detention they knew they could escape, and they knew how to. For some reason, they didn’t.
“The locks are old on the doors and there are no guards about. There is no reason to have guards, for men have never defied the Councils so far as to escape from whatever place they were ordered to be.”(part 6)
It seems like even though they can escape and get away with it they can’t, just because no one has done it before. Everyone there is scared to be an individual, no one wants to be the first to do something since they grew up living like one person.
“We lunged against the door and it gave way.”
They were the first to ever break out. This is when I believed they were really starting to understand there was more to life than they were living. I also think they are the first to ever act upon it which is proving how much they have matured and how observant they really are.
“Tell man he must live for others. Tell men that altruism is the ideal.”(TSC)
The soul of collectivist shares that this is how they think. This is how they were really brought up, they are living for others they don’t have a life of their own they are really just here to help others live. Men are told they are only to be concerned of the well being of others. They mentioned altruism and that means they would do something that benefits others more than themselves.
“These great and wise of the earth did not know what to think of us, and they looked upon us with wonder and curiosity, as if we were a miracle.”(part 7 )
The people are not used to others breaking rules so they are not sure how to react.
“Then we knew suddenly that we were lying on a soft earth and that we had stopped. Trees taller than we had ever seen before stood over us in great silence. Then we knew. We were in the Uncharted Forest.”
This is when they had finally escaped.
“We thought suddenly that we could lie thus as long as we wished, and we laughed aloud at the thought. We could also rise, or run, or leap, or fall down again.”Part 8
They are realizing what it is like to be free they are not controlled by anyone anymore they can do whatever they want.
“For, upon the blue of the sky below us, we saw our own face for the first time.”
They had been kept from seeing their faces for the whole time. Seeing their reflection in the river is their first time seeing themselves.
“Now, we cannot speak, for we cannot understand.”
They are not used to being so independent so this is all new to them and takes time to take it all in.
“We have torn ourselves from the truth which is our brother men, and there is no road back for us, and no redemption.”
There is no way they can go back since they have already experienced freedom.
Mitch Keamy
ReplyDeletePrompt 2: The old locks and lack of guards in the Palace of Corrective Detention indicate that prisoners never try to escape. Why do you think they do not? In your essay, consider the following excerpt from Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead, titled “The Soul of a Collectivist.” Also, use examples from Inequality for All by Robert Reich as a means of showing modern day examples.
I think no one tries to escape the prison because they are afraid of what will happen to them. The rules of the society in anthem are so strict, they force the people inside to forget the meaning of self and become a collectivist society. These people are almost slaves to those in charge, the thought of escaping prison must not even pop into their minds. The reason Prometheus escaped was because he knew that what the people were doing was wrong and he wasn't scared. There is also a possibility that the people don’t know they are in prison. Since the people do they same thing everyday and are forced to forget the idea of self, they are almost already in prison. Since the people have never been enlightened to freedom, when they are put in prison, they feel as if it is just a normal day.
“But I am done with this creed of corruption.” Rand P. 97
“The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them” Rand P. 52
“To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.” Rand
“The locks are old on the doors and there are no guards about.”
“The first blow of the lash felt as if our spine had been cut in two.-ch. 6”
“What matter they now, the scars upon our back!”
“There is no danger in solitude.”
Jayden Cho
ReplyDelete11/5/18
At last, Prometheus is finally his true self and has finally started a new life, one where the idea of individualism will be the core mindset for all. He knows that this will be a difficult, long journey for his unique mentality that he has is our natural instinct, our logical self that is sealed away when in a collectivist world. However, Prometheus believes and knows the struggle with his collectivist world because of the ever so limited, selfless minds of the citizens in this dystopian society. These minds have no emotion, no ambition, no desire to achieve their goals and attain happiness. This is the reason why he will prevail in the fight to abolish collectivism. His reasoning, his ambitious mindset, and his ability to learn and adapt will pull an edge over even the sheer number of his brothers. His brothers act like machines with no feelings, they seem to be programmed to act together and work together to have a false sense of success. This is the reason why Prometheus knows just by force will he not win the minds of his brothers, but his rational thinking will win the hearts and perception of their society.
1. “Now I look ahead. My future is clear before me. The Saint of the pyre had seen the future when he chose me as his heir, as the heir of all the saints and all the martyrs who came before him and who died for the same cause, for the same word, no matter what name they gave to their cause and their truth (Pg. 99).”
2. “...For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.” (Pg. 100)
3. “I understood the blessed thing which I had called my curse. I understood why the best in me had been my sins and my transgressions; and why I had never felt guilt in my sins. I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.” (Pg. 98)
4. “Through the years ahead, I shall rebuild the achievements of the past, and open the way to carry them further, the achievements which are open to me, but closed forever to my brothers, for their minds are shackled to the weakest and dullest ones among them.” (Pg. 99 - 100)
5. “The word which will not die, should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory.
The sacred word: EGO.” (Pg. 105)
6. “[Prometheus] took the light of the gods and he brought it to men, and he taught men to be gods. And he suffered for his deed as all bearers of light must suffer.” (Pg. 99)
7. “We may not be able to do everything at once but think of each action you take as an incremental step towards the structural change our economy needs.” (“Inequality for All”)
8. “Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own visions. Their goals differed, but they all had this is common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received - hatred. The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered, and they paid. But they won.”(The soul of an individualist)
9. “His vision, his strength, his courage came from his own spirit. A man’s spirit, however, is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.” (The soul of an individualist)
10.“The creator - denied, opposed, persecuted, exploited - went on, moved forward and carried all humanity along on his energy. The second-hander contributed nothing to the process except the impediments. The contest has another name: the individual against the collective.” (The soul of an individualist)
Evan Brenner
ReplyDeleteIn the novel Anthem, I think Prometheus foresees a struggle with his collectivist world because he has ideas that nobody in the community has ever encountered before. The problem with this is that no one can be smarter or more superior to anyone. If one sees themself as an individual, the people think that the community will fall apart. He believes he should not be punished for his great discovery. Equality thinks he will prevail because his discovery is so good and could help the community a lot. The society is missing out on his great idea because the council is forbidding it. Also they forbid learning and growing of other individuals. Equality is against all of this and believes that he should be able to give his ideas and not be interrupted. Also given a fair chance to give his whole thought of it.
1..”We, Equality 7-2521, have discovered a new power of nature. And we have discovered it alone, and we alone are to know it.” (Anthem)
2. “I am. I think. I will.” (Anthem)
3. “For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all the evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and of an unspeakable lie”. (Anthem)
4. “A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term”. (Inequality for all)
5. “An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts”. (Soul of an individualist)
6. To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images”. (Allegory of a cave)
7. “A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term”. (Robert Reich)
8.”We made it. We created it. We brought it forth from the night of the ages. We alone. Our hands. Our mind. Ours alone and only”.
9. “Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unharmed. His brain is his only weapon”. (Soul of an individualist)
10. “I do not surrender my treasures, nor do I share them. The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom”. (Anthem)
Frankie Huntress Near the end of the story, Prometheus writes that “the day will come when I shall . . . raze the cities of the enslaved” and that “the Councils of my brothers will be impotent against me.” Why do you think Prometheus foresees a struggle with his collectivist world? Why does he think he will prevail? For your essay, consider also what Ayn Rand writes in this excerpt from her novel The Fountainhead, titled “The Soul of an Individualist.” Also, use examples from Inequality for All by Robert Reich as a means of showing modern day examples.
ReplyDeletePrometheus thinks there will be a struggle with the collectivist world because it is like the cave when someone has been enlightened tries to show it to people who are not enlightened they will not expect it.
Thesis statement
Prometheus thinks there will be a conflict ahead because people in the darkness long enough will refuse the light.
Quote one
“Perhaps, in those days, there were a few among men, a few of clear sight and clean soul, who refused to surrender that word”
Quote two
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends
Quote three
It was when I read the first of the books I found in my house that I saw the word "I."
Quote four
“Its only matter of discovering the lever if you learn how to rule one single mans soul you can get the rest of man kind”
Quote five
Those men who survived those eager to obey, eager to live for one another, since they had nothing else to vindicate them—those men could neither carry on, nor preserve what they had received.
Quote six
I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die, should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory.
The sacred word:
EGO
Quote seven
He took the light of the gods and he brought it to men, and he taught men to be gods. And he suffered for his deed as all bearers of light must suffer. His name was Prometheus."
Quote eghit
I have learned that my power of the sky was known to men long ago; they called it Electricity.
Quote nine
I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters.
Quote ten
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.
Prompt 2: The old locks and lack of guards in the Palace of Corrective Detention indicate that prisoners never try to escape. Why do you think they do not? In your essay, consider the following excerpt from Ayrn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead, titled “The Soul of a Collectivist.” Also, use examples from Inequality for All by Robert Reich as a means of showing modern day examples.
ReplyDeleteI think no one tries to escape the prison because they are afraid of what will happen to them. The rules of the society in anthem are strict, they force the people inside to forget the meaning of self and become a collectivist society. These people are almost slaves to those in charge. The reason Prometheus escaped was because he knew that what the people were doing was wrong and he wasn't scared. There is also a possibility that the people don’t know they are in prison. Since the people do they same thing everyday and are forced to forget the idea of self, they are almost already in prison. Since the people have never been enlightened to freedom, when they are put in prison, they feel as if it is just a normal day and that its not a punishment.
“But I am done with this creed of corruption.” Rand P. 97
“The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them” Rand P. 52
“To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.” Rand
“The locks are old on the doors and there are no guards about.”
“The first blow of the lash felt as if our spine had been cut in two.-ch. 6”
“What matter they now, the scars upon our back!”
“There is no danger in solitude.
james kiladis
DeleteMitch Keamy (revised)
ReplyDeletePrompt 2: The old locks and lack of guards in the Palace of Corrective Detention indicate that prisoners never try to escape. Why do you think they do not? In your essay, consider the following excerpt from Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead, titled “The Soul of a Collectivist.” Also, use examples from Inequality for All by Robert Reich as a means of showing modern day examples.
I think no one tries to escape the prison because they are afraid of what will happen to them. The rules of the society in anthem are so strict, they force the people inside to forget the meaning of self and become a collectivist society. These people are almost slaves to those in charge, the thought of escaping prison must not even pop into their minds. The reason Prometheus escaped was because he knew that what the people were doing was wrong and he wasn't scared. There is also a possibility that the people don’t know they are in prison. Since the people do they same thing everyday and are forced to forget the idea of self, they are almost already in prison. Since the people have never been enlightened to freedom, when they are put in prison, they feel as if it is just a normal day.
“But I am done with this creed of corruption.” Rand P. 97
“The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them” Rand P. 52
“To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.” Rand
“The locks are old on the doors and there are no guards about.”
“The first blow of the lash felt as if our spine had been cut in two.-ch. 6”
“What matter they now, the scars upon our back!”
“There is no danger in solitude.”
“Give up your soul to a council — or give it up to a leader.”
“Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.” -Reich
“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.” (fountainhead)
Rene Roustand
ReplyDeleteQuestion 1: Why do you think Prometheus foresees a struggle with his collectivist world?
A: Prometheus foresees a struggle with his collectivist world because all of his people were enslaved. No man or woman was allowed to have freedom, but to do jobs assigned by the Council of Vocations without voicing their complaints or questions. And if they discovered a new power or disobey their duty, they would be lashed. They couldn’t even suppress happiness, love or any emotion at all. The bosses for each of the jobs don’t care for their employees, they only care about themselves. Quotes that proves my answer is from Robert Reich’s “Inequality for All” and from Ayn Rand’s “The Soul of the Individualist”. Reich says, “We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives,” and that “Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people”. Rand says, “A man’s spirit, however, is himself”, “No man can live for one another” and, “He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves”.
Quote 1: "We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives." (Inequality for All)
Quote 2: “Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people." (Inequality for All)
Quote 3: "Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal." (Inequality for All)
Quote 4: “Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur.” (Robert Reich)
Quote 5: Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?” (Robert Reich)
Quote 6: "A mans spirit, however, is his self." (Ayn Rand: The Soul of an Individualist)
Quote 7: "No man can live for one another." (Ayn Rand: The Soul of an Individualist)
Quote 8: "He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves." (Ayn Rand: The Soul of an Individualist)
Quote 9: Rulers of men are not egoists. They create nothing. They exist entirely through the persons of others." (Ayn Rand: The Soul of an Individualist)
Quote 10: "The goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving." (Ayn Rand: The Soul of an Individualist)
Gannon Sylvester
ReplyDelete11/5/18
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Prompt 1:
In the novel “Anthem”, by Ayn Rand, Prometheus undergoes a struggle throughout his story that he is different from everyone else in his society. Throughout the book, he has made discoveries that no one else in his society has ever made before. As well as finding love with Gaea, (the golden one). He never sought of himself as part of his society, more as an individual. When he shares his idea with the council of scholars, they are scared of it and adapting to change because they have never seen anything like it before. He was mistreated and locked away for just trying to make things in society easier and better.
“We have not written for thirty days. For thirty days we have not been here, in our tunnel. We had been caught. It happened on that night when we wrote last. We forgot, that night, to watch the sand in the glass which tells us when three hours have passed and it is time to return to the City Theatre. When we remembered it, the sand had run out.” (part 6). For this, he is locked away for trying to help and make a difference.
“It is dark here in the forest. The leaves rustle over our head, black against the last gold of the sky. The moss is soft and warm. We shall sleep on this moss for many nights until the beasts of the forest come to tear our body. We have no bed now, save the moss, and no future, save the beasts.” (part 7). He is forced to run away from what he had known as home and now make the most of his new situation.
“We seized our box, we shoved them aside, and we ran to the window. We turned and we looked at them for the last time, and a rage, such as it is not fit for humans to know, choked our voice in our throat."You fools!" we cried. "You fools! You thrice-damned fools!" (part 7). Prometheus is angry, he is also a mixed a confused and unaware, of why the council of scholars rejected his idea when he thought that it could’ve been the key to change the way things worked in society.
ReplyDeleteGannon Sylvester part 2
“We did not wish to move. We thought suddenly that we could lie thus as long as we wished, and we laughed aloud at the thought. We could also rise, or run, or leap, or fall down again. We were thinking that these were thoughts without sense, but before we knew it our body had risen in one leap. Our arms stretched out of their own will, and our body whirled and whirled until it raised a wind to rustle through the leaves of the bushes.” (part 8). Prometheus is on his first day living on his own in the “Uncharted forest”, and to his surprise, he is actually very relieved that he is on his own as he knows that it's for the better of himself instead of trying to live by the rules of his society in which he does not condone.
“But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whether 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. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.” (part 12). This can help explain parts to why Prometheus foresees a struggle with his collectivist world because he is still asking himself questions to why he was able to live for so long in that society.
“Here on this mountain, I and my sons and my chosen friends shall build our new land and our fort. And it will become like the heart of the earth, lost and hidden at first, but beating, beating louder each day. And the word of it will reach every corner of the earth. And the roads of the world will become as veins which will carry the best of the world's blood to my threshold. And all my brothers and the Councils of my brothers will hear of it, but they will be impotent against me.” (part 12). This quote can help show that he is trying to create something strong, that will stand up against his collectivist society.
“I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet. 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.” (part 11). This can show how the society that Prometheus's prevision is different from his collectivist society because people need to earn his love/respect.
“I am a man. This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before!” (part 11). Prometheus has seen himself now. He has seen what needs to be done to make him happy, to make him want to keep going and to be a leader. He is a man and he feels that this is his own part of him that he needs to keep safe.
“And now I see the face of God, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: "I." (part 11). Prometheus has now become familiar with his own religion and it is now his to worship in the face of the god that he chooses to believe in.
“May knowledge come to us! What is the secret our heart has understood and yet will not reveal to us, although it seems to beat as if it were endeavoring to tell it?” (part 10). Prometheus has become enlightened to his knowledge of himself and what is to come to him in the future, and he is ready for it.