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What does this quote mean to you? “A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.”

Today’s Agenda: 10 minute

readings (no library today)

Explanation of Post its (do not take them off your desk, please)

Introduction to Anthem

“A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.”

-Milton Friedman

Anthem (1939-1946)Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand• Born in St. Petersburg, Russia

in 1905. • She witnessed both the

Kerensky and Bolshevik Revolutions during her teenage years in Russia.

• The communist victory in Russia resulted in the confiscation of her father’s pharmacy and periods of near starvation for her family.

• When introduced to American history in high school, she immediately took to what a nation of freedom looked like.

• She left Russia in 1925, to visit relatives, and she never returned.

Ayn Rand Philosophies…

Objectivism Collectivism vs. Individualism

Objectivism The idea that focuses

on “man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity.”

Has four principals: Reality exists as an

objective absolute. Reason is man’s only

means of perceiving reality and his basic means of survival.

Man is an end to himself.

Laissez-faire capitalism

What is objectivism to you? Write on your post it what Ayn Rand’s philosophy means to you.

Knowing all of this….

Collectivism Idea based on what

you do is what is best for others…your purpose is to serve others without any care for your wants or desires. Being “altruistic”, but someone else tells you how to be…

Can you think of some examples where you may have experienced some form of collectivism in your own life (at home, the classroom, etc.)?

Your Turn…

Individualism Regards every man

as a sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

Imagine if our society was an individualist society. What do you think would be different? Given the kind of democracy that we have, do you think individualism could even work here? (Ideally we do have individual freedoms, but does how much of our society is individualist?)

Your Turn…

Individualism The individual…

Has rightsWill not run anyone

else’s life, nor let anyone run theirs

Will not rule or be ruled

Will not be a master or slave

Will not sacrifice themselves to anyone, nor sacrifice anyone to themselves.

The individual…Is owned by the

groupHas no right to a

private existenceHas no right to lead

his own life, pursue his own happiness, or use his own property

Exists only as a part of the group

Individualism vs. Collectivism

Collectivism

Anthem Written in America

in 1937Type of Literature -

Novella: Genre- Dystopian:

the world presented as it should NOT be (ex. 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm)

Anthem Narrator: Equality 7-2521 writes

the journal of the events as they transpire over the course of several months

Point of View: Equality 7-251 speaks in the first person (plural) referring to himself as “we” instead of “I.”

Tone: Equality 7-251 records his thought and actions in a straightforward manner, with no trace of irony.

Tense: present, with some past-tense narration

Setting (time)- sometime in the distant future, after the collapse of the social order becomes of the common acceptance of collectivist values

Setting (place)-an unidentified city; much of the first half of the novel, is narrated from a tunnel where Equality 7-2521 is hiding.

Protagonist- Equality 7-2521Symbols- light; the forest; manuscripts

Anthem